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SUBMITTER: Ahmed S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2787140 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahmed Sophia S Compton Stephen G SG Butlin Roger K RK Gilmartin Philip M PM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091112 48
The question of how far pollen can move between plants has implications for topics as diverse as habitat fragmentation, conservation management, and the containment of genetically modified crops. The monoecious African fig tree Ficus sycomorus L. relies on the small, short-lived, night-flying, host-specific fig wasp Ceratosolen arabicus Mayr for pollination. We used microsatellite markers to characterize a geographically isolated riparian population of F. sycomorus growing along the Ugab River i ...[more]