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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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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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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Direct Parental (DIPA) CRISPR in the jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis. [PDF]
G3 (Bethesda)Abstract While clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–Cas9 technology has demonstrated remarkable promise as a gene-editing tool, its application in certain insects, such as the jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis, has been hindered by a lack of a tractable method for reagent delivery.
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Female dispersal and isolation-by-distance of Nasonia vitripennis populations in a local mate competition context [PDF]
, 2009 Dispersal behavior directly influences the level of inbreeding, but the effect of inbreeding avoidance on dispersal is less well studied. The parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) is known to mate ...
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Haploid Females in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Science, 2007 The insect order of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, sawflies, and wasps) consists almost entirely of haplodiploid species. Under haplodiploidy, males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, whereas females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid. Although diploid males commonly occur, haploid females have never been reported.
Beukeboom, Leo W. +6 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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Characterizing the infection-induced transcriptome of Nasonia vitripennis reveals a preponderance of taxonomically-restricted immune genes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The innate immune system in insects consists of a conserved core signaling network and rapidly diversifying effector and recognition components, often containing a high proportion of taxonomically-restricted genes. In the absence of functional annotation,
Timothy B Sackton +2 more
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Recombination and its impact on the genome of the haplodiploid parasitoid wasp Nasonia [PDF]
, 2013 Homologous meiotic recombination occurs in most sexually reproducing organisms, yet its evolutionary advantages are elusive. Previous research explored recombination in the honeybee, a eusocial hymenopteran with an exceptionally high genome-wide ...
Beukeboom, Leo W. +13 more
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Chromosomal anchoring of linkage groups and identification of wing size QTL using markers and FISH probes derived from microdissected chromosomes in Nasonia(Pteromalidae : Hymenoptera) [PDF]
, 2004 Nasonia vitripennis is a small parasitic hymenopteran with a 50-year history of genetic work including linkage mapping with mutant and molecular markers. For the first time we are now able to anchor linkage groups to specific chromosomes.
Beukeboom, Leo W. +5 more
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