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Monday, December 10, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM |
Golden West, Atlas Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country) |
Section Symposium: Making Connections Among Insects, Microbial Symbionts and the Environment: Behavioral and Ecological Consequences of Symbiont Infection in Insects |
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| Organizer(s): | Martha S. Hunter, mhunter@ag.arizona.edu
Kerry M. Oliver, kmoliver@email.arizona.edu
Richard Stouthamer, richard.stouthamer@ucr.edu
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| 1:30 PM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 1:35 PM |  | 0586 | | Inherited bacterial symbionts influence host selection behavior of a whitefly parasitoid
Martha S. Hunter, mhunter@ag.arizona.edu, Sarah G. Kenyon, sarah.kenyon@unine.ch |
| 2:00 PM | | 0587 | | Incidence, effects and consequences of microparasites in Drosophila -parasitoid communities
Frederic Fleury, fleury@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr |
| 2:25 PM | | 0588 | | 25 years after Hamilton-Zuk:The role of Drosophila-parasitic nematodes on host mate choice
Steve J. Perlman, stevep@uvic.ca, Christina Ball, stevep@uvic.ca |
| 2:50 PM | | 0589 | | Infection with parthenogenesis-inducing bacteria leads to the irreversible loss of sexual reproduction
Richard Stouthamer, richard.stouthamer@ucr.edu, James E Russell, james.russell@email.ucr.edu, Fabrice Vavre, vavre@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr |
| 3:15 PM | | 0590 | | Parasitoid integration of viral genes as a source of reproductive success and species diversity
Brian Federici, brian.federici@ucr.edu |
| 3:40 PM | | | | Break |
| 3:50 PM | | 0591 | | Insect-microbe mutualism without vertical transmission: The symbiosis between the bean bug Riptortus clavatus (Hemiptera: Alydidae) and their Burkholderia symbiont
Yoshitomo Kikuchi, yoshitomo.kikuchi@uconn.edu, Takahiro Hosokawa, Takema Fukatsu |
| 4:15 PM | | 0592 | | Facultative symbionts and host plant specialization in the pea aphid
Julia Ferrari, julia.ferrari@zoo.ox.ac.uk, Charles Godfray, charles.godfray@zoo.ox.ac.uk |
| 4:40 PM | | 0593 | | Symbionts of pea aphids mediate interactions with natural enemies
Kerry M. Oliver, kmoliver@email.arizona.edu, Nancy Moran, nmoran@email.arizona.edu, Martha S. Hunter, mhunter@ag.arizona.edu |
| 5:05 PM | | 0594 | | Wolbachia infection in mosquitoes: Natural and artificially-induced impacts on host population dynamics
Stephen L. Dobson, sdobson@uky.edu |
| 5:30 PM | | | | Concluding Remarks |
