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Evolution of sex-specific wing shape at the widerwing locus in four species of Nasonia.
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- Oviposition but Not Sex Allocation Is Associated with Transcriptomic Changes in Females of the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2015Article
- Identification of Genes Uniquely Expressed in the Germ-Line Tissues of the Jewel Wasp Nasonia vitripennis.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2015Article
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- Early memory in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
- Development of a Nasonia vitripennis outbred laboratory population for genetic analysis.Molecular ecology resources · 2014Article
- Fine-scale mapping of the Nasonia genome to chromosomes using a high-density genotyping microarray.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2013Article
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- Natural variation in learning rate and memory dynamics in parasitoid wasps: opportunities for converging ecology and neuroscience.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2011Review
- The resolution of sexual antagonism by gene duplication.Genetics · 2011Article
- Sex linkage, sex-specific selection, and the role of recombination in the evolution of sexually dimorphic gene expression.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2010Article
- The genetic basis of interspecies host preference differences in the model parasitoid Nasonia.Heredity · 2010Article
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Abstract
How do morphological differences between species evolve at the genetic level? This study investigates the genetic basis of recent divergence in male wing size between species of the model parasitoid wasp Nasonia. The forewings of flightless Nasonia vitripennis males are 2.3 times smaller than males of their flighted sister species N. giraulti. We describe a major genetic contributor to this difference: the sex-specific widerwing (wdw) locus, which we have backcrossed from N. giraulti into N. vitripennis and mapped to an 0.9 megabase region of chromosome 1. This introgression of wdw from large-winged N. giraulti into small-winged N. vitripennis increases male but not female forewing width by 30% through wing region-specific size changes. Indirect evidence suggests that cell number changes across the wing explain the majority of the wdw wing-size difference, whereas changes in cell size are important in the center of the wing. Introgressing the same locus from the other species in the genus, N. longicornis and N. oneida, into N. vitripennis produces intermediate and large male wing sizes. To our knowledge, this is the first study to introgress a morphological quantitative trait locus (QTL) from multiple species into a common genetic background. Epistatic interactions between wdw and other QTL are also identified by introgressing wdw from N. vitripennis into N. giraulti. The main findings are (1) the changes at wdw have sex- and region-specific effects and could, therefore, be regulatory, (2) the wdw locus seems to be a co-regulator of cell size and cell number, and (3) the wdw locus has evolved different wing width effects in three species.
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