Monday, December 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Windsor Rose, Regency Tower, Ninth Floor (Town & Country)

B, Session B1. Physiology, Biochemistry, Toxicology, and Molecular Biology

Organizer(s): Dov Borovsky
Desiree Vanderwel
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0301M versus F: Is it really a battle of the sexes?
Ronda L. Hamm, Jeffrey G. Scott
8:17 AM0302A transcription factor that modulates cowpea bruchid adaptation to plant defense
Ji-Eun Ahn, Linda A. Guarino, Keyan Zhu-Salzman
8:29 AM0303Gut microbial community anaylsis through the life history of the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
Scott Geib, Kelli Hoover
8:41 AM0304Effect of soldier head extract on worker caste differentiation in the eastern subterranean termite (Reticulitermes flavipes)
Matthew R. Tarver, Michael E. Scharf
8:53 AM0305Diploid males in the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma: Implications for sex determination in the Chalcidoids
Genet M. Tulgetske, Richard Stouthamer
9:05 AM 0306Mosquito and tick repellency to plant essential oils
Gretchen E. Paluch, Joel Coats
9:17 AM0307Salivary secretions of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis: Novel method of collection and protein profile
Hasan Alhaddad, Elaine Backus, Fred E. Schreiber
9:29 AM Break
9:41 AM0308Lethal and sublethal effects of pyriproxyfen on obliquebanded leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Jay F. Brunner, Michael D. Doerr, Ashfaq A. Sial
9:53 AM 0309Pyrethroid resistance in Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Alana L. Jacobson, Rick Foster
10:05 AM0310Interaction of the two major permethrin resistance mechanisms, kdr and cytochrome P450 monooxygenase-mediated detoxification, in mosquito larvae
Melissa C. Hardstone, Jeffrey G. Scott
10:17 AM 0311Biochemical and molecular characterization of insecticide resistance in the tobacco aphid, Myzus nicotianae (Blackman) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), in eastern United States
Lakshmipathi Srigiriraju, Troy D. Anderson, Paul Semtner
10:29 AM0312Differential gene expression relating to rotation resistance in the western corn rootworm
Lisa M. Knolhoff, Kimberly K. O. Walden, Susan T. Ratcliffe, David Onstad, Hugh M. Robertson
10:41 AM 0313Studies on the mechanism of resistance to Cry1Ab toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis in a field derived strain of European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis
Andre Luiz Barreto Crespo, Eliseu Pereira, Herbert Alvaro Abreu Siqueira, Blair D. Siegfried
10:53 AM 0314Fitness costs of Bt Cry1Ac resistance in cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie)
Konasale J. Anilkumar, William J. Moar
11:05 AM0315Genetic diversity of Lygus hesperus from different locations in Texas
Ram B. Shrestha, Megha N. Parajulee, Omaththage P. Perera

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