Identification and characterization of Nasonia Pax genes [PDF]
Insect Molecular Biology, 2010 Abstract Pax genes are a group of critical developmental transcriptional regulators in both invertebrates and vertebrates, characterized by the presence of a paired DNA‐binding domain. Pax proteins also often contain an octapeptide motif and a C‐terminal homeodomain.
R G, Keller, C, Desplan, M I, Rosenberg
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Sperm Depletion and Mating Behavior in the Parasitoid Wasp \u3ci\u3eSpalangia Cameroni\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) [PDF]
, 2018 Mating behavior was examined in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni. Males attempted copulation with both virgins and already mated females. Males attempted copulation regardless of whether they still had sperm. Already mated females rejected attempts
King, Bethia H
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Courtship Behavior and Detection of Female Receptivity in the Parasitoid Wasp Urolepis rufipes [PDF]
, 2013 Once a Urolepis rufipes male mounted, the female beat her antennae against his mouth and clypeus. Immediately after he swept his antennae rapidly downward and extruded his mouthparts, her abdomen rose as she opened her genital orifice.
Burgess IV, E.R. +2 more
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Chemical Ecology of the Parasitoid Wasp Genus Nasonia (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The use of chemical cues and signals is essential for communication in insects. Wasps of the genus Nasonia (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) are gregarious parasitoids that lay their eggs into puparia of cyclorrhaphous flies.
Magdalena M. Mair, Joachim Ruther
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, 2022 Method for establishing A. nasoniae in pure culture from field collected N. vitripennis, and DNA template/genome sequencing method.
L. Frost, Crystal +6 more
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Strain Maintenance of Nasonia vitripennis (Parasitoid Wasp) [PDF]
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2009 INTRODUCTIONNasonia is a complex of four closely related species of wasps with several features that make it an excellent system for a variety of genetic studies. These include a short generation time, ease of rearing, interfertile species, visible and molecular markers, and a sequenced genome.
John H, Werren, David W, Loehlin
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Evolution of the insect Sox genes [PDF]
, 2008 Background The Sox gene family of transcriptional regulators have essential roles during development and have been extensively studied in vertebrates. The mouse, human and fugu genomes contain at least 20 Sox genes, which are subdivided into groups based
Megan J Wilson, Peter K Dearden
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Rapid evolution of the mitochondrial genome in Chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) driven by parasitic lifestyles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Among the Chalcidoids, hymenopteran parasitic wasps that have diversified lifestyles, a partial mitochondrial genome has been reported only from Nasonia.
Jin-Hua Xiao +3 more
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Superparasitism Drives Heritable Symbiont Epidemiology and Host Sex Ratio in a Wasp [PDF]
, 2016 Heritable microbial symbionts have profound impacts upon the biology of their arthropod hosts. Whilst our current understanding of the dynamics of these symbionts is typically cast within a framework of vertical transmission only, horizontal transmission
Frost, CL +5 more
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Do Wolbachia influence fecundity in Nasonia vitripennis? [PDF]
Heredity, 2000 This paper reports the influence of a vertically transmitted symbiont, Wolbachia, on host fitness in the parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis. We measured fecundities of uninfected strains and strains infected with either two Wolbachia variants (wAv,wBv) or one (wAv or wBv). Preliminary tests suggested that double-infected females produce more offspring
S R, Bordenstein, J H, Werren
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