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Contest competition and male dispersal have evolved a number of times in pollinating fig wasps. Given their highly female-biased sex ratios and high relatedness between competing males, this phenomenon is surprising. Using a comparative approach, we found a significant association between high adult sex ratios (male:female), fighting and dispersal. We conclude that a relatively high proportion of...
For more than two decades, it has been the dogma that the males of pollinating fig wasps do not fight and that they only mate in their native fig. Their extreme degree of local mating leads to highly female biased sex ratios that should eliminate the benefits of fighting and dispersal by males. Furthermore, males sharing a fig are often brothers, and fighting may be barred by kin selection. Therefore,...
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