Expression and Function of Toll Pathway Components in the Early Development of the Wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Journal of Developmental Biology, 2022 The Toll signaling pathway is the main source of embryonic DV polarity in the fly Drosophila melanogaster. This pathway appears to have been co-opted from an ancestral innate immunity system within the insects and has been deployed in different ways ...
Daniel Pers +4 more
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Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
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.
Bart A. Pannebakker +4 more
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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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Exploring the Potential of Venom from Nasonia vitripennis as Therapeutic Agent with High-Throughput Screening Tools [PDF]
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.
Ellen L. Danneels +2 more
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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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Development and Competition of Three Parasitoid Wasps, Brachymeria podagrica, Dirhinus himalayanus, and Nasonia vitripennis, in Their Host, Sarcophaga dux, 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
Rolf K. Schuster, Saritha Sivakumar
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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.
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Effects of Different Hosts on Bacterial Communities of Parasitic Wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Parasitism is a special interspecific relationship in insects. Unlike most other ectoparasites, Nasonia vitripennis spend most of its life cycle (egg, larvae, pupae, and early adult stage) inside the pupae of flies, which is covered with hard puparium ...
Ruxin Duan +4 more
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Spermatogenesis in haploid males of the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 Males of hymenopteran insects, which include ants, bees and wasps, develop as haploids from unfertilized eggs. In order to accommodate their lack of homologous chromosome pairs, some hymenopterans such as the honeybee have been shown to produce haploid ...
Patrick M. Ferree +7 more
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Proteomics of Nasonia vitripennis and the effects of native Wolbachia infection on N. vitripennis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Nasonia vitripennis, a parasitic wasp, is a good model organism to study developmental and evolutionary genetics and to evaluate the interactions between insect hosts and their symbionts.
Jie Li +3 more
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