The wasp species Asobara japonica (A. japonica) is a parasitic organism, meaning it sustains its life by hijacking resources from a host such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The wasp mother can secrete a venom full of toxic components that overcome the host’s immune defenses to enable its baby wasp to live inside the host. In a newly published article in DNA Research, a team led by researchers at the University of Tsukuba used various molecular biology techniques to devise a protocol for gene knock-down in the wasp, investigating the specific mechanistic details of this parasitism.
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Source: Phys.org