2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS1. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in Anopheles gambiae immune signaling genes
Ashley A Horton, University of California Davis; Cheick Coulibaly, University of California Davis; Gregory Lanzaro, University of California Davis; Shirley Luckhart, University of California Davis

0334

The localization of Culex quinquefascuatus odorant binding protein-1 (CquiOBP1)
Wei Xu, University of California - Davis; Walter Leal, University of California, Davis

0335

Cloning and sequencing the calcitonin receptor-like receptor 3 (AaegGPRCal3) from female mosquitoes of Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae)
Cymon Nichole Kersch, Texas A&M University; Hyeogsun Kwon, Texas A&M University; Patricia Pietrantontio, Texas A&M University

0336

Rheb, a key component of the amino acid signaling pathway, controls mosquito egg development
Saurabh Ghosh Roy, University of California, Riverside; Alexander Raikhel, University of California, Riverside

0337

Field and laboratory trials of a natural sterol carrier protein inhibitor (SCPI) against larval and adult mosquitoes
Ryan Larson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; James J. Becnel, USDA-ARS; Julia W. Pridgeon, USDA-ARS; Que Lan, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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0338

Expression variability of salivary gland genes in natural populations of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu, University of Notre Dame; Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3; Mariha Wadsworth, University of Notre Dame; David F. Hoel, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3; Hanafi A. Hanafi, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3; Mahmoud Abo-Shehada, Jordan University of Science and Technology; Mary Ann McDowell, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3

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0339

Juvenile hormone regulation of Drosophila Epac: A guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rap1 small GTPase
Jun Wang, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison; Joliene R. Lindholm, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison; David K. Willis, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison; Anthony Orth, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; Walter G. Goodman, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison

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Identification of a cis-regulatory element required for 20-hydroxyecdysone enhancement immune gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Zhaolin Zhang, University of Kentucky; Subba R. Palli, University of Kentucky

0341

Characterization of cytochrome P450 genes CYP6A2, CYP6D4 and CYP6D5 in a methoprene resistant strain of Drosophila melanogaster
Cynthia McDonnell, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign; Mary A. Schuler, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign

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0342

A landscape genetics approach to Hessian fly distributions
Philip K. Morton, Purdue University; Carolyn Foley, Purdue University; Alisha Johnson, USDA-ARS, Purdue University; Brandi J. Schemerhorn, USDA-ARS

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Discovery of avirulence gene candidates in the Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) genome
Rajat Aggarwal, Purdue University; Thiago Benatti, Purdue University; Chaoyang Zhao, Purdue University; Brandon Schemerhorn, Purdue University; Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University; Jeff Stuart, Purdue University

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