Articles by Roma Rajwani in JoVE

An Introduction to Parasitic Wasps of Drosophila and the Antiparasite Immune Response

JoVE 3347 5/07/2012

Chiyedza Small*^1,2, Indira Paddibhatla*^1,2, Roma Rajwani¹, Shubha Govind^1,2

¹Biology Department, The City College of New York, CUNY, ²The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Parasitoid (parasitic) wasps constitute a major class of natural enemies of many insects including Drosophila melanogaster. We will introduce the techniques to propagate these parasites in Drosophila spp. and demonstrate how to analyze their effects on immune tissues of Drosophila larvae.