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Sunday, December 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM |
Salon Two, Garden Ballroom, Second Floor (Town & Country) |
Symposium: Connecting the Colony: Building Social Complexity through Pheromones |
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| Organizer(s): | Colin S. Brent, Colin.Brent@asu.edu
Robert K. Vander Meer, bobvm@ufl.edu
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| 1:30 PM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 1:35 PM | | 0182 | | Chemical communication, collective problem solving and social insects
Jean-Louis Deneubourg, jldeneub@ulb.ac.be |
| 2:00 PM | | 0183 | | Fire ant pheromones: A model for intra-colony connectivity and cohesion
Robert K. Vander Meer, bobvm@ufl.edu |
| 2:25 PM |  | 0184 | | Distinguishing friend from foe: The chemical ecology of nestmate recognition in the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)
Neil Tsutsui, ntsutsui@uci.edu |
| 2:50 PM | | 0185 | | Mystery of the role of pheromones in termites
Ashok K. Raina, araina@srrc.ars.usda.gov |
| 3:15 PM | | 0187 | | Social complexity through cuticular hydrocarbons in termites
A. G. Bagnères |
| 3:40 PM | | | | Break |
| 3:50 PM | | 0186 | | Long-chained hydrocarbons as fertility signals in the major groups of social insects: Why it makes sense
Juergen Liebig, juergen.liebig@asu.edu |
| 4:15 PM | | 0187 | | Neurogenomics of pheromone-mediated behavior in honey bees
Christina Grozinger, christina_grozinger@ncsu.edu |
| 4:40 PM | | 0188 | | Investigations into the role of pheromones in paper wasps and yellowjackets: Current status and future questions
Hal Reed, hreed@oru.edu, Peter J. Landolt, landolt@yarl.ars.usda.gov |
| 5:05 PM | | 0189 | | Pheromones, schmeromones: What it really takes to evolve complexity
Robert L Jeanne, jeanne@entomology.wisc.edu |
| 5:30 PM | | | | Concluding Remarks |
