ArticleJournal of evolutionary biology2011
The quantitative genetic basis of sex ratio variation in Nasonia vitripennis: a QTL study.
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- Genome-wide meta-analysis of common variant differences between men and women.Human molecular genetics · 2012Pooled it
- Genomic prediction in insects: a case study on wing morphology traits in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Sex-allocation trade-offs and their genetic architecture revealed by experimental evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Assemblies of the genomes of parasitic wasps using meta-assembly and scaffolding with genetic linkage.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Quantitative trait locus analysis of parasitoid counteradaptation to symbiont-conferred resistance.Heredity · 2021Article
- A single QTL with large effect is associated with female functional virginity in an asexual parasitoid wasp.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
- Next-generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2020Review
- Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis.BMC genomics · 2020Article
- Evidence of capacitation in the parasitoid wasp,Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Differential gene expression is not required for facultative sex allocation: a transcriptome analysis of brain tissue in the parasitoid waspRoyal Society open science · 2018Article
- Oviposition but Not Sex Allocation Is Associated with Transcriptomic Changes in Females of the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2015Article
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- Development of a Nasonia vitripennis outbred laboratory population for genetic analysis.Molecular ecology resources · 2014Article
- The transcriptomic basis of oviposition behaviour in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis.PloS one · 2013Article
- Absence of complementary sex determination in the parasitoid wasp genus Asobara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
Our understanding of how natural selection should shape sex allocation is perhaps more developed than for any other trait. However, this understanding is not matched by our knowledge of the genetic basis of sex allocation. Here, we examine the genetic basis of sex ratio variation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis, a species well known for its response to local mate competition (LMC). We identified a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for sex ratio on chromosome 2 and three weaker QTL on chromosomes 3 and 5. We tested predictions that genes associated with sex ratio should be pleiotropic for other traits by seeing if sex ratio QTL co-occurred with clutch size QTL. We found one clutch size QTL on chromosome 1, and six weaker QTL across chromosomes 2, 3 and 5, with some overlap to regions associated with sex ratio. The results suggest rather limited scope for pleiotropy between these traits.
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