Sunday, December 9, 2001: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Pacific Salon 1-2(Convention Center, Level 1)

Section C Symposium: Insect Castes: Developmental Regulation and Evolutionary Pathways

Session Chair(s): Colin Brent
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:05 AM0001Overview of proximate and ultimate factors influencing caste differentiation in social insects
Diana Wheeler
8:30 AM0002Linking physiology, behavior and reproductive caste in primitively eusocial paper wasps
Sean O'Donnell
8:55 AM0003Caste ontogeny in social wasps: Correlates, causes and consequences
James Hunt
9:20 AM0004Caste differentiation in leaf-cutting ants: Individual morphology and colony organization in Atta colombica
Samuel N. Beshers
9:45 AM0005Altruism, cheating, and a cryptic caste in social aphid colonies
Patrick Abbot
10:10 AMBreak
10:20 AM0006Neurochemical modulation of division of labor in honey bee colonies
David Schulz, Gene Robinson
10:45 AM0007Gene expression profiles during honey bee larval development
Jay Evans
11:10 AM0008Social behavior and factors affecting soldier production of eusocial aphids
Harunobu Shibao
11:35 AM0009Ultimate factors influencing developmental decisions in lower termites
Judith Korb
12:00 PM0010Reproductive dynamics and developmental plasticity in basal Isoptera
Barbara Thorne
12:25 PMConcluding Remarks

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