Transcriptome of Trichopria drosophilae (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) during different developmental stages

The parasitoid wasp Trichopria drosophilae (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) plays an important role in biological control of fruit fly, however its molecular genetics, biochemistry and physiology are poorly understood. We used high throughput sequencing platform to perform de novo transcriptome assembly and gene expression analysis across different developmental stages (eggs, early larvae stage, middle larvae stage, later larvae stage, early pupae stage, middle pupae stage, later pupae stage, adult males and adult females). Large number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were discovered through pairwise comparisons between these developmental stages.