Sunday, 17 November 2002: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Room 222-223 (Convention Center, Second Floor)

Comparative Ecology and Evolution of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

Moderator(s): Peter Armbruster
Jan E. Conn
1:00 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:05 PM0193Ecological aspects of the invasion of Aedes albopictus in Brazil and USA
M.A.H. Braks, Nildimar Alves Honorio, L. P. Lounibos, R. Lourenco de Oliveira, Steven A. Juliano
1:25 PM0194Competition and co-existence of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti
Steven A. Juliano, George F. O'Meara, J. Morrill, M. Cutwa, M.A.H. Braks, Nildimar Alves Honorio
1:45 PM0195Blood feeding behavior makes Aedes aegypti a most efficient dengue vector
Thomas W. Scott, J.D. Edman, Laura C. Harrington
2:05 PM0196Global scale population genetic structure of Aedes albopictus
Sahar Usmani, J. Birungi, Leonard E. Munstermann
2:25 PMBreak
2:40 PM0197Quantitative trait loci for dengue susceptibility in Aedes aegypti
Kristine E. Bennett, W.C. Black IV
3:00 PM0198Selfish genes and Aedes aegypti population dynamics
D.W. Severson, S.-J. Cha, D.D. Chadee, A. Mori
3:20 PM0199Quantitative genetics of life-history traits in North American Aedes albopictus
Peter Armbruster, Jan E. Conn

The 2002 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition