Gap genes are involved in segment determination during the early development of the fruit
fly Drosophila melanogaster as well as in other insects. This review attempts to synthesize …

Intracellular targeting of mRNAs has long been recognized as a means to produce proteins
locally, but has only recently emerged as a prevalent mechanism used by a wide variety of …

We report here genome sequences and comparative analyses of three closely related
parasitoid wasps: Nasonia vitripennis, N. giraulti, and N. longicornis. Parasitoids are …

A marine ecosystem model seeded with many phytoplankton types, whose physiological
traits were randomly assigned from ranges defined by field and laboratory data, generated …

There is now compelling evidence that many arthropods pattern their segments using a
clock-and-wavefront mechanism, analogous to that operating during vertebrate …

Plant-mediated RNAi has been developed as a powerful weapon in the fight against
agricultural insect pests. The gap gene hunchback (hb) is of crucial importance in insect …

There has been a recent trend in evolutionary developmental biology (evo–devo) towards
using increasing numbers of model species. I argue that, to understand phenotypic change …

The wasp Nasonia vitripennis is emerging as a useful model organism in which to address a
variety of biological questions, due, in part, to its ease of laboratory use, unique aspects of its …

The revolutionary RNA-guided endonuclease CRISPR/Cas9 system has proven to be a
powerful tool for gene editing in a plethora of organisms. Here, utilizing this system we …

Nasonia is a complex of four closely related species of wasps that is rapidly emerging as a
model for evolutionary and developmental genetics. It has several features that make it an …