Scientific Name	Nasonia vitripennis
Common Name	-
Taxonomy ID	7425
Lineage	cellular organisms > Eukaryota > Opisthokonta > Metazoa > Eumetazoa > Bilateria > Protostomia > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Arthropoda > Mandibulata > Pancrustacea > Hexapoda > Insecta > Dicondylia > Pterygota > Neoptera > Endopterygota > Hymenoptera > Apocrita > Chaldicoidea group > Chalcidoidea > Pteromalidae > Pteromalinae > Nasonia
External Links	NCBI;
Representative Assembly	Nvit_2.1	GCF_000002325.3	DNA GFF RNA Protein

Description:

The Nasonia genus includes three closely related species of wasps that parasitize various blowfly species. Nasonia vitripennis is found throughout the world, and is estimated to have diverged from N. giraulti and N. longicornis approximately 1.0 Mya. The three species are normally genetically isolated from each other owing to Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility, but laboratory strains cured of Wolbachia are interfertile providing a useful source of genetic and sequence variation for mapping studies. Consequently, Nasonia serves as a useful model system, particularly for the study of the genetics of complex traits and for comparative developmental genetics.