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Tetrapus
''Tetrapus'' is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. ''Tetrapus'' pollinates figs in the subgenus '' Pharmacosycea''. ''Tetrapus'' appears to be the sole genus of the subfamily Tetrapusiinae and a basal clade among the fig-pollinating wasps. The genus is estimated to be 87.5 million years old using cytochrome oxidase nucleotide sequences, and more than 34.5 million years old based on a fossil from Florissant, Colorado in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., .... References Agaonidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Gustav Mayr {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...
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Tetrapus Mayri
''Tetrapus'' is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. ''Tetrapus'' pollinates figs in the subgenus '' Pharmacosycea''. ''Tetrapus'' appears to be the sole genus of the subfamily Tetrapusiinae and a basal clade among the fig-pollinating wasps. The genus is estimated to be 87.5 million years old using cytochrome oxidase nucleotide sequences, and more than 34.5 million years old based on a fossil from Florissant, Colorado in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., .... References Agaonidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Gustav Mayr {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...
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Tetrapus Antillarum
''Tetrapus'' is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. ''Tetrapus'' pollinates figs in the subgenus '' Pharmacosycea''. ''Tetrapus'' appears to be the sole genus of the subfamily Tetrapusiinae and a basal clade among the fig-pollinating wasps. The genus is estimated to be 87.5 million years old using cytochrome oxidase nucleotide sequences, and more than 34.5 million years old based on a fossil from Florissant, Colorado in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., .... References Agaonidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Gustav Mayr {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...
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Tetrapus Costaricanus
''Tetrapus'' is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. ''Tetrapus'' pollinates figs in the subgenus '' Pharmacosycea''. ''Tetrapus'' appears to be the sole genus of the subfamily Tetrapusiinae and a basal clade among the fig-pollinating wasps. The genus is estimated to be 87.5 million years old using cytochrome oxidase nucleotide sequences, and more than 34.5 million years old based on a fossil from Florissant, Colorado in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., .... References Agaonidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Gustav Mayr {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...
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Tetrapus Ecuadoranus
''Tetrapus'' is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. ''Tetrapus'' pollinates figs in the subgenus '' Pharmacosycea''. ''Tetrapus'' appears to be the sole genus of the subfamily Tetrapusiinae and a basal clade among the fig-pollinating wasps. The genus is estimated to be 87.5 million years old using cytochrome oxidase nucleotide sequences, and more than 34.5 million years old based on a fossil from Florissant, Colorado in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., .... References Agaonidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Gustav Mayr {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...
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Tetrapus Mexicanus
''Tetrapus'' is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. ''Tetrapus'' pollinates figs in the subgenus '' Pharmacosycea''. ''Tetrapus'' appears to be the sole genus of the subfamily Tetrapusiinae and a basal clade among the fig-pollinating wasps. The genus is estimated to be 87.5 million years old using cytochrome oxidase nucleotide sequences, and more than 34.5 million years old based on a fossil from Florissant, Colorado in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., .... References Agaonidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Gustav Mayr {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...
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Agaonidae
The family Agaonidae is a group of pollinating and nonpollinating fig wasps. They spend their larval stage inside the fruits of figs. The pollinating wasps (Agaoninae, Kradibiinae, and Tetrapusiinae) are the mutualistic partners of the fig trees. The nonpollinating fig wasps are parasitic. Extinct forms from the Eocene and Miocene are nearly identical to modern forms, suggesting that the niche has been stable over geologic time. Taxonomy The family has changed several times since its taxonomic appearance after the work of Francis Walker in 1846 described from the wasp genus '' Agaon''. Previously the subfamilies Epichrysomallinae, Otitesellinae, Sycoecinae, Sycoryctinae, Sycophaginae, and Agaoninae were the subdivisions of the family. Recent works building strong molecular phylogenies with an extended sampling size have changed the composition of Agaonidae. First, the paraphyletic groups have been excluded (Epichrysomallinae, Otitesellinae, Sycoecinae, and Sycoryctinae) and ne ...
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Fig Wasp
Fig wasps are wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside figs. Most are pollinators but others simply feed off the plant. The non-pollinators belong to several groups within the superfamily Chalcidoidea, while the pollinators are in the family Agaonidae. While pollinating fig wasps are gall-makers, the remaining types either make their own galls or usurp the galls of other fig wasps; reports of their being parasitoids are considered dubious. History Aristotle recorded in his ''History of Animals'' that the fruits of the wild fig (the caprifig) contain ''psenes'' (fig wasps); these begin life as grubs (larvae), and the adult ''psen'' splits its "skin" (pupa) and flies out of the fig to find and enter a cultivated fig, saving it from dropping. He believed that the ''psen'' was generated spontaneously; he did not recognise that the fig was reproducing sexually and that the ''psen'' was assisting in that process. Taxonomy The fig wasps are a polyph ...
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Tetrapus Americanus
''Tetrapus americanus'' is a species of fig wasp which is native to South and Central America. It has an obligate {{wiktionary, obligate As an adjective, obligate means "by necessity" (antonym ''facultative'') and is used mainly in biology in phrases such as: * Obligate aerobe, an organism that cannot survive without oxygen * Obligate anaerobe, an organism tha ... mutualism with '' Ficus maxima'', the fig species it pollinates. References Agaonidae Insects of South America {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...
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Proceedings Of The Royal Society B
''Proceedings of the Royal Society'' is the main research journal of the Royal Society. The journal began in 1831 and was split into two series in 1905: * Series A: for papers in physical sciences and mathematics. * Series B: for papers in life sciences. Many landmark scientific discoveries are published in the Proceedings, making it one of the most historically significant science journals. The journal contains several articles written by the most celebrated names in science, such as Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, William Lawrence Bragg, Lord Kelvin, J.J. Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. In 2004, the Royal Society began '' The Journal of the Royal Society Interface'' for papers at the interface of physical sciences and life sciences. History The journal began in 1831 as a compilation of abstracts of papers in the ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'', the older Royal Society publicatio ...
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Cytochrome Oxidase
The enzyme cytochrome c oxidase or Complex IV, (was , now reclassified as a translocasEC 7.1.1.9 is a large transmembrane protein complex found in bacteria, archaea, and mitochondria of eukaryotes. It is the last enzyme in the respiratory electron transport chain of cells located in the membrane. It receives an electron from each of four cytochrome c molecules and transfers them to one oxygen molecule and four protons, producing two molecules of water. In addition to binding the four protons from the inner aqueous phase, it transports another four protons across the membrane, increasing the transmembrane difference of proton electrochemical potential, which the ATP synthase then uses to synthesize ATP. Structure The complex The complex is a large integral membrane protein composed of several metal prosthetic sites and 14 protein subunits in mammals. In mammals, eleven subunits are nuclear in origin, and three are synthesized in the mitochondria. The complex contains two ...
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Nucleotide Sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of bases signified by a series of a set of five different letters that indicate the order of nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule. By convention, sequences are usually presented from the 5' end to the 3' end. For DNA, the sense strand is used. Because nucleic acids are normally linear (unbranched) polymers, specifying the sequence is equivalent to defining the covalent structure of the entire molecule. For this reason, the nucleic acid sequence is also termed the primary structure. The sequence has capacity to represent information. Biological deoxyribonucleic acid represents the information which directs the functions of an organism. Nucleic acids also have a secondary structure and tertiary structure. Primary structure is sometimes mistakenly referred to as ''primary sequence''. Conversely, there is no parallel concept of secondary or tertiary sequence. Nucleotides Nucleic acids consist ...
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Gustav Mayr
Gustav L. Mayr (12 October 1830 – 14 July 1908) was an Austrian entomologist and professor in Budapest and Vienna. He specialised in Hymenoptera, being particularly known for his studies of ants.1908. Obituary. Prof. Gustav Mayr. Entomological News 19:396
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