Search Results - "van de Zande, Louis"
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Facultative Sex Ratio Adjustment in Natural Populations of Wasps: Cues of Local Mate Competition and the Precision of Adaptation
Published in The American naturalist (01-09-2008)“…Sex ratio theory offers excellent opportunities to examine the extent to which individuals adaptively adjust their behavior in response to local conditions…”
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Recombination and Its Impact on the Genome of the Haplodiploid Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia
Published in PloS one (19-01-2010)“…Homologous meiotic recombination occurs in most sexually reproducing organisms, yet its evolutionary advantages are elusive. Previous research explored…”
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Genetics of sex determination in the haplodiploid wasp nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Published in Journal of genetics (01-09-2010)“…The parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis reproduces by haplodiploidy; males are haploid and females are diploid. Sex determination in Nasonia is not governed by…”
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Maternal Control of Haplodiploid Sex Determination in the Wasp Nasonia
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (30-04-2010)“…All insects in the order Hymenoptera have haplodiploid sex determination, in which males emerge from haploid unfertilized eggs and females are diploid. Sex…”
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Effects of polyploidization and their evolutionary implications are revealed by heritable polyploidy in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
Published in PloS one (02-11-2023)“…Recurrent polyploidization occurred in the evolutionary history of most Eukaryota. However, how neopolyploid detriment (sterility, gigantism, gene dosage…”
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Doublesex regulates male-specific differentiation during distinct developmental time windows in a parasitoid wasp
Published in Insect biochemistry and molecular biology (01-03-2022)“…Sexually dimorphic traits in insects are subject to sexual selection, but our knowledge of the underlying molecular mechanisms is still scarce. Here we…”
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QTL analysis of the photoperiodic response and clinal distribution of period alleles in Nasonia vitripennis
Published in Molecular ecology (01-10-2016)“…In seasonal environments, organisms synchronize their life cycle with the annual cycle of environmental factors. In many insect species, this includes a…”
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Divergent evolution of male-determining loci on proto-Y chromosomes of the housefly
Published in Nature communications (16-07-2024)“…Houseflies provide a good experimental model to study the initial evolutionary stages of a primary sex-determining locus because they possess different…”
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Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
Published in BMC genomics (20-07-2020)“…Whilst adaptive facultative sex allocation has been widely studied at the phenotypic level across a broad range of organisms, we still know remarkably little…”
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Maternal provision of transformer-2 is required for female development and embryo viability in the wasp Nasonia vitripennis
Published in Insect biochemistry and molecular biology (01-11-2017)“…In insect sex determination a primary signal starts the genetic sex determination cascade that, in most insect orders, is subsequently transduced down the…”
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Diploid males support a two-step mechanism of endosymbiont-induced thelytoky in a parasitoid wasp
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (12-05-2015)“…Haplodiploidy, where females develop from diploid, fertilized eggs and males from haploid, unfertilized eggs, is abundant in some insect lineages. Some species…”
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Natural variation in differentiated hemocytes is related to parasitoid resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
Published in Journal of insect physiology (01-02-2013)“…[Display omitted] ► Large geographic variation in parasitoid resistance among Drosophila melanogaster lines. ► Lines vary in accuracy of targeting the immune…”
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Natural and Artificial Selection for Parasitoid Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster Leave Different Genetic Signatures
Published in Frontiers in genetics (31-05-2019)“…Adaptation of complex traits depends on standing genetic variation at multiple loci. The allelic variants that have positive fitness effects, however, can…”
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A new component of the Nasonia sex determining cascade is maternally silenced and regulates transformer expression
Published in PloS one (22-05-2013)“…Although sex determination is a universal process in sexually reproducing organisms, sex determination pathways are among the most highly variable genetic…”
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Absence of complementary sex determination in the parasitoid wasp genus Asobara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Published in PloS one (02-04-2013)“…An attractive way to improve our understanding of sex determination evolution is to study the underlying mechanisms in closely related species and in a…”
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Latitudinal Variation in Circadian Rhythmicity in Nasonia vitripennis
Published in Behavioral sciences (15-11-2019)“…Many physiological processes of living organisms show circadian rhythms, governed by an endogenous clock. This clock has a genetic basis and is entrained by…”
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Hybrid incompatibilities are affected by dominance and dosage in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia
Published in Frontiers in genetics (15-04-2015)“…Study of genome incompatibilities in species hybrids is important for understanding the genetic basis of reproductive isolation and speciation. According to…”
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Non-coding changes cause sex-specific wing size differences between closely related species of Nasonia
Published in PLoS genetics (15-01-2010)“…The genetic basis of morphological differences among species is still poorly understood. We investigated the genetic basis of sex-specific differences in wing…”
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Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis of Mating Behavior and Male Sex Pheromones in Nasonia Wasps
Published in G3 : genes - genomes - genetics (01-06-2016)“…A major focus in speciation genetics is to identify the chromosomal regions and genes that reduce hybridization and gene flow. We investigated the genetic…”
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Sex determination in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): A critical consideration of models and evidence
Published in Seminars in cell & developmental biology (01-06-2007)“…Sex determining mechanisms are highly diverse. Like all Hymenoptera, the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis reproduces by haplodiploidy: males are haploid and…”
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