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| C A DesjardinsSummaryAffiliation: University of Rochester Country: USA Publications
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Accelerated microevolution in an outer membrane protein (OMP) of the intracellular bacteria WolbachiaLaura Baldo
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
BMC Evol Biol 10:48. 2010....
Structure and evolution of a proviral locus of Glyptapanteles indiensis bracovirusChristopher A Desjardins
The Institute for Genomic Research, J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
BMC Microbiol 7:61. 2007..Here we describe a 223 kbp region of Glyptapanteles indiensis genomic DNA which contains a part of the G. indiensis bracovirus (GiBV) proviral genome...
Phylogeny of pteromalid parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae): initial evidence from four protein-coding nuclear genesChristopher A Desjardins
Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 45:454-69. 2007..Initial phylogenetic comparisons of life history traits suggest that the ancestral chalcidoid was small-bodied and parasitized insect eggs...
Comparative genomics of mutualistic viruses of Glyptapanteles parasitic waspsChristopher A Desjardins
J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Genome Biol 9:R183. 2008....
The genetic basis of interspecies host preference differences in the model parasitoid NasoniaC A Desjardins
Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Heredity 104:270-7. 2010..To our knowledge, this is the first introgression of the host preference of one parasitoid species into another, as well as one of the few cases of introgression of a behavioral gene between species...
Behavioral and genetic characteristics of a new species of NasoniaR Raychoudhury
Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Heredity 104:278-88. 2010..A genetic analysis of this phenotype by interspecies hybridization indicates that this strong discriminating phenotype is recessive. A formal species description of N. oneida Raychoudhury & Desjardins is also provided...
Data mining cDNAs reveals three new single stranded RNA viruses in Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)D C S G Oliveira
Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Insect Mol Biol 19:99-107. 2010..A third virus, NvitV-3, is most similar to the Nora virus from Drosophila. A reverse transcription-PCR method developed for NvitV-1 indicates that it is a persistent commensal infection of Nasonia...
The mushroom habitat as an ecological arena for global exchange of WolbachiaJulie K Stahlhut
Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Mol Ecol 19:1940-52. 2010..Our results suggest that horizontal transmission of Wolbachia can be influenced by host ecology, thus leading to partial restriction of Wolbachia strains or strain groups to particular guilds of insects...
