Development of a Nasonia vitripennis outbred laboratory population for genetic analysis.

ABSTRACT: The parasitoid wasp genus Nasonia has rapidly become a genetic model system for developmental and evolutionary biology. The release of its genome sequence led to the development of high-resolution genomic tools, for both interspecific and intraspecific research, which has resulted in great advances in understanding Nasonia biology. To further advance the utility of Nasonia vitripennis as a genetic model system and to be able to fully exploit the advantages of its fully sequenced and annotated genome, we developed a genetically variable and well-characterized experimental population. In this study, we describe the establishment of the genetically diverse HVRx laboratory population from strains collected from the field in the Netherlands. We established a maintenance method that retains gene

SUBMITTER: van de Zande L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4260118 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature