Nasonia vitripennis
The comparative biology of second sex ratio evolution within a natural population of a parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis.
... Correlation and regression analyses indicate that isofemale strains extracted from a population of the parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis, differ in the fit of their [r] ...
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Sexual selection and sex allocation in the gregarious parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
... The influence of a male on the sex ratio his mate produces is proposed to be through the number of spermatozoa he transfers to her in his ejaculate. Ejaculates are not just spermatozoa; they consist of other factors that ...
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No Patrigenes Required for Femaleness in the Haplodiploid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis
... The parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis is an emerging model organism for developmental and be- havioral genetics. It reproduces by haplodiploidy; males typically develop parthenogenetically from haploid ...
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A Genetic Screen for Zygotic Embryonic Lethal Mutations Affecting Cuticular Morphology in the Wasp Nasonia vitripennis
... in Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera; ...of Nasonia for geneti- cally surveying conservation and change in regulatory gene systems, as a means to understand the diversity of developmental strategies ...
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Evidence for a Genomic Imprinting Sex Determination Mechanism in Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera; Chalcidoidea)
... Five different models have been proposed for the sex determination mechanism of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Except for the most recently proposed model (genomic imprinting sex determination; GISD), each of these models ...
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Oviposition but not sex allocation is associated with transcriptomic changes in females of the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
... wasp Nasonia vitripennis using a transcriptomics ...in Nasonia, some of which may be involved in fundamental processes underlying the ability to facultatively allocate sex, including sperm storage ...
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Unique features of odorant-binding proteins of the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis revealed by genome annotation and comparative analyses
... wasp Nasonia vitripennis and identified 90 sequences encoding putative ...N. vitripennis OBPs, including the presence and evolutionary origin of a new subfamily of double-domain OBPs (consisting of ...
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DNA methylation and sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
... Experimental manipulation of genome-wide DNA meth- ylation using a common demethylating agent leads to sub- tle changes in sex allocation in Nasonia vitripennis. Im- portantly, the general shape of ...
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The torso like gene functions to maintain the structure of the vitelline membrane in Nasonia vitripennis, implying its co option into Drosophila axis formation
... Axis specification is a fundamental developmental process. Despite this, the mechanisms by which it is controlled across insect taxa are strikingly different. An excellent example of this is terminal patterning, which in ...
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Function and evolution of DNA methylation in Nasonia vitripennis
... the Nasonia clade. Methylation status in both Nasonia duplicates and the Apis paralog was available for 33 of ...both Nasonia paralogs are methylated. In 8 cases, one of the Nasonia paralogs ...
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Differential gene expression is not required for facultative sex allocation : a transcriptome analysis of brain tissue in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
... Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) is a generalist parasitoid of large dipteran pupae including species of Calliphoridae. Females oviposit between 20 and 50 eggs in an individual host, with ...
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Larval Diapause of Maternal Origin: Induction of Diapause in Nasonia Vitripennis (Walk ) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
... In a strain of Nasonia isolated in London, however, it has been shown Saunders, 1962 that diapause larvae are more frequent among the offspring of old females, and in the present experim[r] ...
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Length of Life of the Sexes in Nasonia Vitripennis (Walker) (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) Under Conditions of Starvation
... This nutriment may be at least one of the factors enabling a starved female to survive longer than a starved male, and larger females than smaller, since the larger individuals have more[r] ...
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The Effect of Resorbing Eggs upon the Sex Ratio of the Offspring in Nasonia Vitripennis (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae)
... The survival value, to the parasite, of having males produced from resorbing eggs is that under adverse conditions, which in these experiments was an acute shortage of host puparia so th[r] ...
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Single and Double Infections with Wolbachia in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia vitripennis Effects on Compatibility
... uitripennis by Southern hybridization as well as PCR amplification, investigate the effects of diapause on bac- terial infection level and the production of single infec- tions[r] ...
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The comparative biology of genetic variation for conditional sex ratio behavior in a parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis.
... Betwen-strain heterogeneity of overall sex ratios of foundress groups: Recall that these sex ratios are “indexed” by the identity of the wild-type strain but are determined [r] ...
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Exposure to the neonicotinoid imidacloprid disrupts sex allocation cue use during superparasitism in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
... N. vitripennis exposed to field-relevant doses of the neonicotinoid insecticide imida- cloprid exhibited a reduced ability to allocate sex optimally in the presence of co-foundresses (Whitehorn et ...N. ...
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Deletion analysis of the selfish B chromosome, Paternal Sex Ratio (PSR), in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis.
... as well as early mitosis in the fertilized egg. Here we present a deletion analysis of PSR. , specific regions on the chromosome associated with PSR function).. [r] ...
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Genetic variation for sex ratio traits within a natural population of a parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis.
... Consequently, the heterogeneity of stDR first sex ratios and brood sizes reflects differences between the wildtype strains in their effects on first broods. There are at least [r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of sex ratio traits in the parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis.
... Statistical procedures: We used least-squares regression analysis of arc-sine transformed values and logistic regression analysis to assess the relationship between mother and [r] ...
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