Asobara
Asobara ajbelli by Des Helmore
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Superfamily:
Ichneumonoidea
Family:
Braconidae
Subfamily:
Alysiinae
Genus:
Asobara

Förster, 1862[1]

Asobara is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae. It contains around forty species.[2] The genus is best known for the Drosophila parasitoid Asobara tabida, which is notable as both a model for parasitoid wasp infection in insects, and also as a representative of the hologenome theory of evolution.[3][4][5] Asobara tabida is commensally infected with Wolbachia, and cannot reproduce in the absence of Wolbachia infection. As such, the genome of Asobara is directly tied to the genome of its commensal Wolbachia symbiont, and the two are considered to have a hologenome.[5]

References

  1. ^ Förster, A. 1862: Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Braconen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereines preussischen Rheinlande und Westphalens 19: 225–288.
  2. ^ Guerrieri, Emilio; Giorgini, Massimo; Cascone, Pasquale; Carpenito, Simona; Achterberg, Cees van (3 February 2016). "Species Diversity in the Parasitoid Genus Asobara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Native Area of the Fruit Fly Pest Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)". PLOS ONE. 11 (2): e0147382. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1147382G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147382. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 26840953.
  3. ^ Van Alphen, J.J.M.; Janssen, A.R.M. (1981). "Host Selection By Asobara Tabida Nees (Braconidae; Alysiinae) a Larval Parasitoid of Fruit Inhabiting Drosophila Species". Netherlands Journal of Zoology. 32 (2): 194–214. doi:10.1163/002829682X00139. ISSN 0028-2960. S2CID 84208667.
  4. ^ Eslin, Patrice; Prévost, Geneviève (1998). "Hemocyte load and immune resistance to Asobara tabida are correlated in species of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup". Journal of Insect Physiology. 44 (9): 807–816. doi:10.1016/S0022-1910(98)00013-4. ISSN 0022-1910. PMID 12769876.
  5. ^ a b Dedeine F, Boulétreau M, Vavre F (2005). "Wolbachia requirement for oogenesis: occurrence within the genus Asobara (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) and evidence for intraspecific variation in A. tabida". Heredity (Edinb). 95 (5): 394–400. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800739. PMID 16118660.

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