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Fig-Wasp Upset: Classic partnership isn’t so tidy after all

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Textbooks that marvel over an extreme example of the buddy system–fig species that supposedly each pair up with a lone pollinating wasp species–may need rewriting, according to a new genetic analysis.

ROOM IN BLOOM. Inside the developing green fruit of a Panamanian fig, a wasp generation hatches and mates.