An optimized method for Nasonia germ-free rearing [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 A germ-free rearing system is a crucial method for host–microbiota interactions using Nasonia as a model system. The previous rearing media in 2012 introduced toxic factors like bleach and antibiotics, required significant effort and volume of media ...
Guan-Hong Wang, Robert M. Brucker
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Variation in photoperiod response corresponds to differences in circadian light sensitivity in northern and southern Nasonia vitripennis lines. [PDF]
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 2023 The circadian clock times physiological and behavioural processes and resets on a daily basis to synchronize with the environment. The involvement of the circadian clock in photoperiodic time measurement synchronising annual rhythms is still under debate
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Effects of polyploidization and their evolutionary implications are revealed by heritable polyploidy in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Recurrent polyploidization occurred in the evolutionary history of most Eukaryota. However, how neopolyploid detriment (sterility, gigantism, gene dosage imbalances) has been overcome and even been bridged to evolutionary advantage (gene network ...
Leung K, van de Zande L, Beukeboom LW.
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A case of polyploid utility in biocontrol: reproductively-impaired triploid Nasonia vitripennis have high host-killing ability. [PDF]
Pest Manag SciBACKGROUND Intentionally impairing the fecundity of mass‐reared insects has important utility in controlling pest species. Typically, sterilized individuals are competed against wild counterparts, reducing pest population size.
Li X, Leung K.
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Circadian entrainment to red-light Zeitgebers and action spectrum for entrainment in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis. [PDF]
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 2023 Light is the most important environmental cue for the circadian system of most organisms to stay synchronized to daily environmental changes. Like many other insects, the wasp Nasonia vitripennis has trichromatic compound eye-based colour vision and is ...
Wang Y +5 more
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Transcriptomic Analysis of Light-Induced Genes in Nasonia vitripennis: Possible Implications for Circadian Light Entrainment Pathways. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2023 Simple Summary Almost all animals on Earth, which are subject to daily environmental changes, have evolved an endogenous circadian system to maintain daily timekeeping with their environments. Light serves as the most crucial external cue for pollinating
Wang Y +3 more
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Genome sequence of Staphylococcus nepalensis ZZ-2023a, isolated from Nasonia vitripennis. [PDF]
Microbiol Resour Announc, 2023 We isolated a strain of Staphylococcus nepalensis from Nasonia vitripennis and presented the draft genome sequence of this strain. This research was conducted at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China).
Zhu Z, Wu R, Wang G-H.
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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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Development and Competition of Three Parasitoid Wasps, <i>Brachymeria podagrica, Dirhinus himalayanus</i>, and <i>Nasonia vitripennis</i>, in Their Host, <i>Sarcophaga dux</i>, in Single and Mixed Infections. [PDF]
PathogensLaboratory trials were carried out to investigate the development of three entomophagous parasitoid wasps in preimaginal stages of Sarcophaga dux in monoinfections and mixed infections. Laboratory-raised postfeeding S. dux third-stage larvae were exposed
Schuster RK, Sivakumar S.
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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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