Disentangling a Holobiont – Recent Advances and Perspectives in Nasonia Wasps [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 The parasitoid wasp genus Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) is a well-established model organism for insect development, evolutionary genetics, speciation and symbiosis.
Seth Bordenstein +2 more
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In vitro cultivation of the hymenoptera genetic model, Nasonia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The wasp genus Nasonia is a genetic model with unique advantages for the study of interspecific differences, including haplodiploidy and interfertile species.
Robert M Brucker, Seth R Bordenstein
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Genome-wide demethylation and targeted remethylation during metamorphosis in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Epigenetics & ChromatinDNA methylation plays a critical regulatory role during insect development, yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we provide a comprehensive profile of DNA methylation dynamics across the developmental stages of the parasitoid ...
C. L. Thomas, E. B. Mallon
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Nasonia vitripennis males exhibit greater effort and competency in detecting hosts with conspecific females than other Nasonia males [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceNasonia is a species complex of four parasitoid wasps. N. vitripennis is cosmopolitan, while the other three species are micro-sympatric with it. This distribution can select distinct species-specific mate recognition capabilities.
Taruna Verma +6 more
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Creating insect neopolyploid lines to study animal polyploid evolution [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsWhole‐genome duplication (polyploidy) poses many complications but is an important driver for eukaryotic evolution. To experimentally study how many challenges from the cellular (including gene expression) to the life history levels are overcome in ...
Saminathan Sivaprakasham Murugesan +3 more
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Toxins, 2015 The venom from the ectoparasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) contains at least 80 different proteins and possibly even more peptides or other small chemical compounds, demonstrating its appealing therapeutic application.
Dirk C de Graaf +2 more
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Exploring the ageing methylome in the model insect, Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
BMC GenomicsBackground The ageing process is a multifaceted phenomenon marked by the gradual deterioration of cellular and organismal functions, accompanied by an elevated susceptibility to diseases.
K. Brink +4 more
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mSystems, 2021 Phylosymbiosis is a cross-system trend whereby microbial community relationships recapitulate the host phylogeny. In Nasonia parasitoid wasps, phylosymbiosis occurs throughout development, is distinguishable between sexes, and benefits host development ...
Karissa L. Cross +5 more
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Differential gene expression is not required for facultative sex allocation: a transcriptome analysis of brain tissue in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Whole-transcriptome technologies have been widely used in behavioural genetics to identify genes associated with the performance of a behaviour and provide clues to its mechanistic basis. Here, we consider the genetic basis of sex allocation behaviour in
Nicola Cook +7 more
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Circadian rhythms differ between sexes and closely related species of Nasonia wasps. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Activity rhythms in 24 h light-dark cycles, constant darkness, and constant light conditions were analyzed in four different Nasonia species for each sex separately.
Rinaldo C Bertossa +5 more
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