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Chaos of Wolbachia sequences inside the compact fig syconia of Ficus benjamina (Ficus: moraceae).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Yang Chun-Yan, Xiao Jin-Hua, Niu Li-Ming, Ma Guang-Chang, Cook James M, Bian Sheng-Nan, Fu Yue-Guan, Huang Da-Wei
Abstract excerpt
Figs and fig wasps form a peculiar closed community in which the Ficus tree provides a compact syconium (inflorescence) habitat for the lives of a complex assemblage of Chalcidoid insects. These diverse fig wasp species have intimate ecological relationships within the closed world of the fig syconia. Previous surveys of Wolbachia, maternally inherited endosymbiotic bacteria that infect vast numbers of arthropod...
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