Sunday, 17 November 2002: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Floridian Ballroom B-C (Convention Center, Third Floor) | |||
Parasites, Pathogens and Insect Sociality | |||
| Moderator(s): | Rebeca B. Rosengaus Sean O'Donnell | ||
| 8:00 AM | Introductory Remarks | ||
| 8:04 AM | 0009 | An overview of parasites and host behavior Janice Moore | |
| 8:34 AM | 0010 | Parasites, colony founding and the evolution of sociality Mark J.F. Brown | |
| 8:52 AM | 0011 | Pathogenic selective pressures and mechanisms of disease resistance in termites Rebeca B. Rosengaus | |
| 9:08 AM | 0012 | Fear and foraging: how parasitoids affect ant communities Donald H. Feener | |
| 9:26 AM | 0013 | Change of honey bee social behavior caused by a microsporidian parasite: physiological mechanisms? Zachary Huang, Lin Ron | |
| 9:44 AM | 0014 | Interactions between pathogens and ant behavior Roberto M. Pereira, David H. Oi | |
| 10:02 AM | Break | ||
| 10:12 AM | 0015 | The effect of Gregarine (Protista: Apicomplexa) infection in Polybia occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Andrew M. Bouwma | |
| 10:30 AM | 0016 | Sex determination and the genetics of disease resistance in social insects Sean O'Donnell, Samuel N. Beshers | |
| 10:48 AM | 0017 | Response thresholds of individual hygenic honey bees affect colony-level defense against diseases and parasites Marla Spivak | |
| 11:06 AM | 0018 | Genetic diversity and disease within honey bee colonies David R. Tarpy | |
| 11:24 AM | 0019 | Pathogenic incidence and genetic diversity in harvester ants Diane C. Wiernasz, Blaine J. Cole | |
| 11:42 AM | 0020 | Gene expression and immunocompetence in larval honey bees Jay Evans | |