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Asobara
Asobara is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae. It contains around forty species. 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. 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.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Asobara antipoda
speciesAsobara antipoda
Asobara persimilis
speciesAsobara persimilis
Asobara tabida
speciesAsobara tabida
Asobara ajbelli
speciesAsobara ajbelli
Asobara albiclava
speciesAsobara albiclava
Asobara apicalis
speciesAsobara apicalis
Asobara epiclypealis
speciesAsobara epiclypealis
Asobara glabrisulcata
speciesAsobara glabrisulcata
Asobara nigerrima
speciesAsobara nigerrima
Asobara anastrephae
speciesAsobara anastrephae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Asobara in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 375648.