Differentiation during fig ontogeny suggests opposing selection by mutualists.

Confirming the results of our previous analyses between gall and seed syconia at the flower and ripe fruit stages, differentiation between gall and seed syconia appears to occur during the fruits' ontogeny after pollination, especially at ripening; the mean Euclidean distance in a bivariate space defined by the first two PCs between gall and seed syconia of the same species showed an increasing trend from flower, to unripe, to ripe syconia (Table 7 A), with most of the differentiation occurring at maturation.

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