2008 . Associations between male courtship behaviour and female re-mating behaviour in three species of Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) . Anim. Behav. 76 : 637 – 648 .Leonard, J.E.; Boake, C.R.B. Associations between male courtship and female polyandry in three species of wasp, ...
Ornaments are generally less elaborate in females than in males1,2. One explanation for this disparity is that female ornamentation evolved as a nonadaptive by-product of selection on male ornaments (i.e., indirect selection via cross-sex genetic correlations1,3,4). However, ornaments are gener...
Although it’s not entirely conclusive, you can tell males by the amount of hair they have on their bodies. Females have very little hair on their bodies, compared to male hermit crabs. If he is covered in lots of tiny hairs, there’s a good chance he’s male. You can make this de...
This wasp is unique in terms of its larval cloning and soldier larvae. Male clone larvae have been found to be killed by female soldier larvae, which suggests intersexual conflict between male and female larvae. However, we show here that mass killing is adaptive to all the killed males as ...
Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long befo...
The original Wasp,Janet van Dyne, was one of the founding members of the Avengers. Like Ant-Man, her suit allows her to shrink to a tiny size. She’s armed with a couple of extra powers: insectoid wings and energy blasts. In her private life she’s often portrayed as a renowned fash...
InFebruary, the Facebook universe of self-identified comic fans grew to a new high of over24 million fans in the United States. Of that 24 million,women account for 46.67%of that population. Since I’ve been tracking these stats, that’s the highest percentage of women recorded. With some...
Sexually dimorphic gall structures correspond to differential phytohormone contents in male and female wasp larvae. N Dorchin,JH Hoffman,WA Stirk,O Novák,M Strnad,J Staden. Physidogical Entomology . 2009Dorchin, N, Hoffmann, JH, Stirk, W, Novák, O, Strnad, M and Van Staden, J. 2009 ....
To eliminate mapping biases, all RNA-seq data were re-aligned within the WASP pipeline for mappability filtering83. The WASP tool has an algorithm specifically designed to identify and correct mapping biases in RNA-seq data. In each read overlapping a heterozygous SNP, the allele is flipped to...
Our observation is somewhat similar but different from the deficiency in N-WASP, an activator of the Ran-ARP2 pathway, which allows normal MII-spindle assembly and positioning but inhibits the second polar body emission despite the initial sister-chromatids separation54. A striking finding in the...