Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 18, 2025

Author Spotlight: Optimizing the Rearing Procedure of Germ-Free Wasps
Published on: July 21, 2023
Nasonia-microbiome associations: a model for evolutionary hologenomics research
Zhengyu Zhu1, Yanjun Liu2, Haoyuan Hu3
1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China.
Abstract:
In recent years, with the development of microbial research technologies, microbiota research has received widespread attention. The parasitoid wasp genus Nasonia is a good model organism for studying insect behavior, development, evolutionary genetics, speciation, and symbiosis. This review describes key advances and progress in the field of the Nasonia-microbiome interactions. We provide an overview of the advantages of Nasonia as a model organism for microbiome studies, list research methods to study the Nasonia microbiome, and discuss recent discoveries in Nasonia microbiome research. This summary of the complexities of Nasonia-microbiome relationships will help to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between animals and their microbiomes and establish a clear research direction for Nasonia-microbiome interactions in the future.
Related Concept Videos
Evolutionary Relationships through Genome Comparisons
Microbial Morphologies
Applications of Molecular Taxonomy
Eukaryotic Evolution
Contrary to the endosymbiont theory, the eukaryote-first hypothesis proposes that the simpler prokaryotic and...
Diversity of Archaea II
Modern Molecular Taxonomy

