The parasitoid wasp Nasonia: An emerging model system with haploid male genetics

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Werren, John H ^a   Loehlin, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PUPATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WASP;

EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; NASONIA; NASONIA GIRAULTI; NASONIA LONGICORNIS; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 70949097154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo134     Document Type: Article

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