This project is part of our global effort the solve the evolutionary history of Ficus species, their pollinating and parasitic wasps (see our last publication on the subject and the figweb database). Here, with many collaborators we focus on the Neotropical fig wasps. 

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We are using genomic data (RAD-Seq and capture of UCEs) to study patterns of co-diversification between monoecious neotropical fig species, their pollinators and several groups of non-pollinating fig wasps. We want to test the hypothesis that gene flow is maintained between fig trees. This work is funded by a NSF (USA) grant on the Panaman figs and by a FAPESP (Brazil) grant on other neotropical species. 

The work is being conducted in collaboration with John Nason, Tracy Heath and Jordan Satler (Iowa State Univ.), Allen Herre (STRI, Panama), Charlotte Jander (Univ. of Oxford), Carlos Machado (Univ. of Maryland), Deren Eaton (Yale), Fernando Farache and Rodrigo A. S. Pereira (Univ. Sao Paulo) and Finn Kjellberg (CNRS, Montpellier).

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You may take a look to Fernando's research project (postdoctoral fellow currently working in our lab) to have more details.

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People involved : A. Cruaud, J.-Y Rasplus, G. Genson, S. Nidelet.