2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Display Presentations, Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems Section

D0350

Molecular cloning of the gene for allatostatin family of neuropeptides from hybrid imported fire Ants (S. invicta x S. richteri)
Srinidi Mohan, Mississippi State University; Peter Ma, Mississippi State University

D0361

Antennnal and behavioral responses of Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae) to a series of homologous terminal diamines
Paul E. Kendra, USDA-ARS; Nancy D. Epsky, USDA-ARS; Wayne S. Montgomery, USDA-ARS; Robert R. Heath, USDA-ARS

D0368

Gene expression of esterases in Dendroctonus valens LeConte (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) exposed to α-pinene
Zulema Gómez, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas-IPN; Gerardo Zuñiga, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas-IPN

D0370

Role of ETH receptors in ecdysis
Sonali Anantprakash Deshpande, University of California, Riverside; Young-Joon Kim, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP); Dusan Zitnan, Slovak Academy of Sciences; Michael E. Adams, University of California, Riverside

D0379

UMBI’s insect transformation facility: Facilitating the use of insect genetic modification technologies
Robert A. Harrell, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; Channa Aluvihare, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; David O'Brochta, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

D0351

A putative actin destabilizer, CpBV-RTX, encoded in Cotesia plutellae bracovirus and its expression in the parasitized Plutella xylostella
Hosanna Hyojin Kim, Kyungbuk Science High School; Younggyun Kim, Andong National University

D0362

Molecular and behavioral study of olfactory responses in the proboscis of malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae
Hyung-Wook Kwon, Vanderbilt University; Laurence J. Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University

D0369

The effects of flight experience and fat depletion on the pioneer host selection behavior of an aggregating bark beetle
Wyatt Williams, Colorado State University; Ian Robertson, Boise State University

D0371

A subtractive cDNA library identifying differentially expressed genes during diapause in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis
Karl H Joplin, East Tennessee State University

D0380

Gliding simulations of a butterfly wing and potential applications to Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) migration
Cornelia Becker, University of Kansas; Orley R. Taylor, University of Kansas; Wonjin Jin, University of Kansas; David Alexander, University of Kansas

D0352

Impact of ascorbic acid fortification on the effectiveness of biological control agents
Thomas A. Coudron, USDA-ARS-BCIRL; Holly J. Popham, USDA-ARS; Kent Shelby, USDA-ARS-BCIRL

D0363

Myoinhibitory peptide and pigment dispersing factor peptidergic inervation of the salivary glands of the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis Say)
Ladislav Simo, Kansas State University; Yoonseong Park, Kansas State University

D0372

Sex pheromonal information processing in interspecies antennal imaginal disc transplants
Seong-Gyu Lee, University of Utah; Kathy Poole, Cornell University; Charles E. Linn, Cornell University; Neil J Vickers, University of Utah

D0381

Fitness estimates for Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Heteroptera: Miridae) on the NI diet and modification on the NI diet
Maribel Portilla, ARS-USDA National Biological Control Laboratory; Doug Streett, ARS-USDA National Biological Control Laboratory

D0353

Expression of Coptotermes formosanus endogenous cellulase gene in E. coli
Dunhua Zhang, USDA-ARS; Alan R. Lax, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center; Ashok K. Raina, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center; John M. Bland, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center

D0364

Gene silencing in Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus
Kevin B. Temeyer, USDA-ARS; Mary Tijerina, USDA-ARS, Cattle Fever Tick Research Laboratory; Mat Pound, Knipling-Bushland U. S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory; Ronald B. Davey, USDA-ARS; Pia Untalan Olafson, USDA-ARS; Robert J. Miller, USDA-ARS; Andrew C. Chen, USDA-ARS

D0373

A new paradigm in insect development and metamorphosis: Multiple farnesoid hormones with independent receptors
Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Peter E. A. Teal, USDA; Shane Byrne, University of Kentucky; Courtney Sandifer, University of Kentucky

D0354

Protein composition of the Diachasmimorpha longicaudata entomopoxvirus (DlEPV) extracellular mature virion
Pauline O. Lawrence, University of Florida

D0365

Genome-wide search and characterization of chitinase gene family in African malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Kansas State University; Xin Zhang, Kansas State University; Kun Yan Zhu, Kansas State University

D0374

Functional analysis of Phe-259 and Thr-314 within the substrate binding pocket of the JH esterase of Manduca sexta
Shizuo G. Kamita, University of California, Davis; Mark D. Wogulis, University of California, Davis; Christopher S. Law, University of California, Davis; Christophe Morisseau, University of California, Davis; Huazhang Huang, University of California, Davis; Bruce D. Hammock, University of California, Davis

D0355

Toxicity of heteropteran 2-alkenals and their derivatives
Koji Noge, University of Arizona; Judith X. Becerra, University of Arizona

D0366

Gene expression patterns in flea vectors of Yersinia pestis
Wei Zhou, Brigham Young University; Richard Mortensen, Brigham Young University; Vance Mitchell, Brigham Young University; Kody Johnson, Brigham Young University; David Erickson, Brigham Young University

D0375

Exposure of vertebrate stem cell line to insect juvenile hormone-like compounds
Xiaobo Li, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Austin Cooney, Baylor College of Medicine

D0356

Olfactory perception in Drosophila melanogaster changes according to environmental temperature
Jacob Riverón, University of Oviedo; Tamara Boto, University of Oviedo; Esther Alcorta, University of Oviedo

D0367

In vivo recordings of the heartbeat in the winter tick Dermacentor albipictus (Acari: Ixodidae)
Andrew Li, USDA-ARS

D0376

Identification of hexamerin core promoter elements necessary for specific transcriptional synergism between juvenile hormone and 20-OH ecdysone
Wenhui Wu, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Shane Byrne, University of Kentucky; Amie Chan, University of Kentucky; Robert Miller, University of Kentucky

D0357

Analysis and functional annotation of expressed sequence tags from the aquatic midge (Chironomus tentans)
Kun Yan Zhu, Kansas State University; Xiuwei Li, Kansas State University; Sharon R. Starkey, Kansas State University

D0377

Mutagenic analysis of the transcriptional contribution of motifs in the core promoter of the juvenile hormone esterase gene
Anna Niewiadomska, University of Kentucky/Wroclaw Univ Technology; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Marian Kochman, Wroclaw University of Technology

D0358

Identification of picorna-like viruses in multiple insect taxa
Danielle M. Tufts, University of Texas at Tyler

D0378

Farnesoid binding to the invertebrate nuclear receptor ultraspiracle (RXR): Mutational analysis of the ligand binding pocket
Li Ye, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky

D0359

Programmed cell death in intestinal cells of Bombyx mori during metamorphosis: Morphological observation of autophagy and apoptosis and expression of the ecdysone-regulated genes
Zhi-Jun Huang, South China Agricultural University; Qing-Rong Li, South China Agricultural University; Yan-Xia Shi, South China Agricultural University; Xiao-Juan Deng, South China Agricultural University; Wan-Ying Yang, South China Agricultural University; Wen-nian Zeng, South China Agricultural University; Ya-dong Huang, Jinan University; Qili Feng, South China Normal University; Yang Cao, South China Agricultural University

D0360

Functional divergence and patterns of inductive expression of three multi-gene families of antimicrobial peptides in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
Ming-qiang Ye, South China Agricultural University; Ya-dong Huang, Jinan University; Yang Cao, South China Agricultural University