Sex allocation theory reveals a hidden cost of neonicotinoid exposure in a parasitoid wasp [PDF]
, 2015 P.R.W. was funded by the University of Stirling, C.V.B. and S.M.G. were funded by Nuffield Research Placements and N.C., J.G. and D.M.S. were funded by NERC (NE/J024481/1).Sex allocation theory has proved to be one the most successful theories in ...
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The costs and benefits of multiple mating in a mostly monandrous wasp [PDF]
, 2015 Funding: NERC DTGThe taxonomically widespread nature of polyandry remains a puzzle. Much of the empirical work regarding the costs and benefits of multiple mating to females has, for obvious reasons, relied on species that are already highly polyandrous.
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A new component of the Nasonia sex determining cascade is maternally silenced and regulates transformer expression. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Although sex determination is a universal process in sexually reproducing organisms, sex determination pathways are among the most highly variable genetic systems found in nature.
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Nasonia vitripennis: An Insect Model for DNA Methylation
, 2023 DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that regulates gene expression and chromosomal organisation. Despite being a conserved phenomena across eukaryotes, the role and location of DNA methylation differs greatly across kingdoms. In the last decade, a
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Latitudinal variation in circadian rhythmicity in Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2019 ABSTRACT Many physiological processes of living organisms show circadian rhythms, governed by an endogenous clock. This clock has a genetic basis and is entrained by external cues such as light and temperature. Other physiological processes exhibit seasonal rhythms, that are also responsive to light and temperature ...
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WaspAtlas: a Nasonia vitripennis gene database and analysis platform.
, 2015 Nasonia vitripennis is a parasitoid wasp which is becoming an important model organism for parasitism, epigenetics, evolutionary and developmental genetics.
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Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
BMC Genomics, 2020 Background Whilst adaptive facultative sex allocation has been widely studied at the phenotypic level across a broad range of organisms, we still know remarkably little about its genetic architecture.
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The transcriptomic basis of post-mating responses in females of the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
, 2012 Mating in insects influences suites of behavioural and physiological changes in females. These changes can include key female traits such as dispersal, foraging, oviposition and female remating or receptivity.
Watt, Rebekah
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Sex pheromones play a crucial role in the mate finding process of insects. The information has to be encoded in a species specific manner to avoid fitness costs due to courtship by or even mismating with closely related species.
Joachim Ruther +9 more
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Mortality in Interspecific Hybrids of Nasonia vitripennis and Nasonia giraulti [PDF]
, 2022 Nasonia is a parasitoid wasp genus that serves as an emerging model for studying speciation due to an incompatibility between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes between sister taxa.
Cobb, Bonnie
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