Haploid females in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5809, 2007, Pages 206-

  Beukeboom, Leo W ^a   Kamping, Albert ^a   Louter, Marina ^a   Pijnacker, Laas P ^a   Katju, Vaishali ^b,d   Ferree, Patrick M ^c   Werren, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

DNA; EGG; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); PARASITE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLOIDY; SEX DETERMINATION; WASP;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAPLOIDY; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; WASP;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HAPLOIDY; MALE; OOGENESIS; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); WASPS;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 33846467152     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133388     Document Type: Article

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6. Supported by a Pioneer grant of the Netherlands Science Organization. We thank J. P. M. Camacho, I. Mateo Leach, and G. Mesander for help with flow cytometry; G. Pomp for the figure; and L. van de Zande for comments on the manuscript. J.H.W. thanks NSF and NIH for funding support (grant nos. DEB-9981634 and 5 RO1 GM070026-02).