Tuesday, 28 October 2003: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM | |||
200 (Convention Center (Second Floor)) | |||
Ten-Minute Papers, Section Cb. Apiculture and Social Insects | |||
| Moderator(s): | Sanford D. Porter James Danoff-Burg | ||
| 8:00 AM | 0584 | Undertaking behavior and worker responsiveness in leaf-cutting ants (Atta colombica) Samuel N. Beshers | |
| 8:12 AM | 0585 | Placing an omnivore in a complex food web: dietary contributions to adult biomass of an ant Chadwick V. Tillberg, Michael Breed | |
| 8:24 AM | 0586 | Pteridine and lipofuscin concentration as indicators of age in individual social and nonsocial insects Simon KA Robson, Mark W Blows, Ross H Crozier | |
| 8:36 AM | 0587 | Purification, biochemical characterization, and cDNA cloning of a glutathione transferase from the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Steven M. Valles | |
| 8:48 AM | 0588 | Consequences of a fire ant - cotton aphid mutualism for cotton plant fitness John D. Styrsky, Micky D. Eubanks | |
| 9:00 AM | 0589 | Selective male mortality and polyandry in the red imported fire ant Gary N. Fritz, Robert K. Vander Meer, Catherine A. Preston | |
| 9:12 AM | Break | ||
| 9:24 AM | 0590 | A 10-year study of the frequency of polygyne red imported fire ants in North Central Florida Sanford D. Porter | |
| 9:36 AM | 0591 | Land use, imported fire ants, and species diversity Ken Helms, S. Bradleigh Vinson | |
| 9:48 AM | 0592 | Effects of different ant genera on local abundances of forest-floor spiders and centipedes Jordi Moya-Laraņo, David H. Wise | |
| 10:00 AM | 0593 | Invasive Argentine ants determine the herbivorous arthropod community in Haleakala National Park, Maui James Danoff-Burg, Jacob Sheppard | |
| 10:12 AM | 0594 | Context-dependent nestmate recognition in the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) Grzesiek Buczkowski, Jules Silverman | |
| 10:24 AM | 0595 | Detection of a nestmate quorum via encounter rates in the ant Leptothorax albipennis Stephen C. Pratt | |
| 10:36 AM | Break | ||
| 10:48 AM | 0596 | Size dimorphism in queens of the cavity-nesting ant, Leptothorax longispinosus Kenneth Howard | |
| 11:00 AM | 0597 | Distribution of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex comanche on a geographical and regional scale Jerry L. Cook | |
| 11:12 AM | 0598 | Genetic diversity and disease in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis Blaine J Cole, Diane C Wiernasz | |
| 11:24 AM | 0599 | Does immune challenge to primary reproductives during colony foundation influence long-term colony fitness? Trade-offs between resistance and reproduction in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis Daniel Calleri II, Rebeca Rosengaus, James Traniello | |
| 11:36 AM | 0600 | Colony fusion in Reticulitermes flavipes: the crumbling of the iron curtain and the domino effect Christopher J. DeHeer, Joanna R. Carlson, Edward Vargo | |
| 11:48 AM | 0601 | Fungistatic function of the sternal gland secretion of the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis Rebeca Rosengaus, James Traniello | |
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