Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whilst adaptive facultative sex allocation has been widely studied at the phenotypic level across a broad range of organisms, we still know remarkably little about its genetic architecture. Here, we explore the genome-wide basis of sex ratio variation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis, perhaps the best studied organism in terms of sex allocation, and well known for its response to local mate competition.

Results

We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for single foundress sex ratios using iso-female lines derived from the recently developed outbred N. vitripennis laboratory strain HVRx. The iso-female lines capture a sample of the genetic variation in HVRx and we present them as the first iteration of the Nasonia vitripennis Genome Reference P

SUBMITTER: Pannebakker BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7372847 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature