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Spermatogenesis in haploid males of the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis.
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- A postmeiotically bifurcated roadmap of honeybee spermatogenesis marked by phylogenetically restricted genes.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Histone removal in sperm protects paternal chromosomes from premature division at fertilization.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- A rapidly evolving single copy histone H1 variant is associated with male fertility in a parasitoid wasp.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Quality over quantity: unraveling the contributions to cytoplasmic incompatibility caused by two coinfecting Cardinium symbionts.Heredity · 2022Article
- Environmental Temperature, but Not Male Age, Affects Wolbachia and Prophage WO Thereby Modulating Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in the Parasitoid Wasp, Habrobracon Hebetor.Microbial ecology · 2022Article
- A comparative genomic approach using mouse and fruit fly data to discover genes involved in testis function in hymenopterans with a focus on Nasonia vitripennis.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Males of hymenopteran insects, which include ants, bees and wasps, develop as haploids from unfertilized eggs. In order to accommodate their lack of homologous chromosome pairs, some hymenopterans such as the honeybee have been shown to produce haploid sperm through an abortive meiosis. We employed microscopic approaches to visualize landmark aspects of spermatogenesis in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis, a model for hymenopteran reproduction and development. Our work demonstrates that N. vitripennis, like other examined hymenopterans, exhibits characteristics indicative of an abortive meiosis, including slight enlargement of spermatocytes preceding meiotic initiation. However, we saw no evidence of cytoplasmic buds containing centrioles that are produced from the first abortive meiotic division, which occurs in the honeybee. In contrast to other previously studied hymenopterans, N. vitripennis males produce sperm in bundles that vary widely from 16 to over 200, thus reflecting a range of cellular divisions. Our results highlight interesting variations in spermatogenesis among the hymenopteran insects, and together with previous studies, they suggest a pattern of progression from meiosis to a more mitotic state in producing sperm.
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