Session: Display Presentations, Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems Section (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008: 7:00 AM-1:30 PM

Exhibit Hall 3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Molecular cloning of the gene for allatostatin family of neuropeptides from hybrid imported fire Ants (S. invicta x S. richteri)

Srinidi Mohan, Mississippi State University; Peter Ma, Mississippi State University

D0351

A putative actin destabilizer, CpBV-RTX, encoded in Cotesia plutellae bracovirus and its expression in the parasitized Plutella xylostella

Hosanna Hyojin Kim, Kyungbuk Science High School; Younggyun Kim, Andong National University

D0352

Impact of ascorbic acid fortification on the effectiveness of biological control agents

Thomas A. Coudron, USDA - ARS; Holly J. Popham, USDA-ARS; Kent S. Shelby, USDA - ARS

D0353

Expression of Coptotermes formosanus endogenous cellulase gene in E. coli

Dunhua Zhang, USDA - ARS; Alan R. Lax, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Ashok K. Raina, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center; John M. Bland, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

D0354

Protein composition of the Diachasmimorpha longicaudata entomopoxvirus (DlEPV) extracellular mature virion

Pauline O. Lawrence, The University of Florida

D0355

Toxicity of heteropteran 2-alkenals and their derivatives

Koji Noge, University of Arizona; Judith X. Becerra, University of Arizona

D0356

Olfactory perception in Drosophila melanogaster changes according to environmental temperature

Jacob Riverón, University of Oviedo; Tamara Boto, University of Oviedo; Esther Alcorta, University of Oviedo

D0357

Analysis and functional annotation of expressed sequence tags from the aquatic midge (Chironomus tentans)

Kun-Yan Zhu, Kansas State University; Xiuwei Li, Kansas State University; Sharon Starkey, Kansas State University

D0358

Identification of picorna-like viruses in multiple insect taxa

Danielle M. Tufts, University of Texas at Tyler

D0359

Programmed cell death in intestinal cells of Bombyx mori during metamorphosis: Morphological observation of autophagy and apoptosis and expression of the ecdysone-regulated genes

Qing-Rong Li, South China Agricultural University; Yan-Xia Shi, South China Agricultural University; Xiao-Juan Deng, South China Agricultural University; Wan-Ying Yang, South China Agricultural University; Wen-nian Zeng, South China Agricultural University; Ya-dong Huang, Jinan University; Qili Feng, South China Normal University; Yang Cao, South China Agricultural University

D0360

Functional divergence and patterns of inductive expression of three multi-gene families of antimicrobial peptides in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Ming-qiang Ye, South China Agricultural University; Ya-dong Huang, Jinan University; Yang Cao, South China Agricultural University

D0361

Antennnal and behavioral responses of Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae) to a series of homologous terminal diamines

Paul E. Kendra, USDA-ARS; Nancy D. Epsky, USDA - ARS; Wayne S. Montgomery, USDA - ARS; Robert R. Heath, USDA - ARS

D0362

Molecular and behavioral study of olfactory responses in the proboscis of malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Hyung-Wook Kwon, Vanderbilt University; Laurence J. Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University

D0363

Myoinhibitory peptide and pigment dispersing factor peptidergic inervation of the salivary glands of the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis Say)

Ladislav Simo, Kansas State University; Yoonseong Park, Kansas State University

D0364

Gene silencing in Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

Kevin B. Temeyer, USDA - ARS; Mary Tijerina, USDA-ARS, Cattle Fever Tick Research Laboratory; J. Mat Pound, Knipling-Bushland U. S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory; Ronald B. Davey, USDA - ARS; Pia Olafson, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Robert J. Miller, USDA - ARS; Andrew C. Chen, USDA-ARS

D0365

Genome-wide search and characterization of chitinase gene family in African malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)

Jianzhen Zhang, Shanxi University; Xin Zhang, Kansas State University; Kun-Yan Zhu, Kansas State University

D0366

Gene expression patterns in flea vectors of Yersinia pestis

Wei Zhou, Brigham Young University; Richard Mortensen, Brigham Young University; Kaitlyn Mitchell, Brigham Young University; Crawford W. Johnson, Brigham Young University; David Erickson, Brigham Young University

D0367

In vivo recordings of the heartbeat in the winter tick Dermacentor albipictus (Acari: Ixodidae)

Andrew Y. Li, USDA Agricultural Research Service

D0368

Gene expression of esterases in Dendroctonus valens LeConte (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) exposed to α-pinene

Zulema Gómez, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas-IPN; Gerardo Zuñiga, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas-IPN

D0369

The effects of flight experience and fat depletion on the pioneer host selection behavior of an aggregating bark beetle

Wyatt Williams, Colorado State University; Ian Robertson, Boise State University

D0370

Role of ETH receptors in ecdysis

Sonali Anantprakash Deshpande, University of California, Riverside; Young-Joon Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology; Dusan Zitnan, Slovak Academy of Sciences; Michael E. Adams, University of California, Riverside

D0371

A subtractive cDNA library identifying differentially expressed genes during diapause in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis

Karl H. Joplin, East Tennessee State University

D0372

Sex pheromonal information processing in interspecies antennal imaginal disc transplants

Seong-Gyu Lee, University of Utah; Kathy Poole, Cornell University; Charles E. Linn, Cornell University; Neil J Vickers, University of Utah

D0373

A new paradigm in insect development and metamorphosis: Multiple farnesoid hormones with independent receptors

Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Peter E. A. Teal, USDA - ARS; Shane Byrne, University of Kentucky; Courtney Sandifer, University of Kentucky

D0374

Functional analysis of Phe-259 and Thr-314 within the substrate binding pocket of the JH esterase of Manduca sexta

Shizuo G. Kamita, UC Davis; Mark D. Wogulis, University of California, Davis; Christopher S. Law, University of California, Davis; Christophe Morisseau, University of California, Davis; Huazhang Huang, University of California, Davis; Bruce D. Hammock, University of California, Davis

D0375

Exposure of vertebrate stem cell line to insect juvenile hormone-like compounds

Yan Li, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Austin Cooney, Baylor College of Medicine

D0376

Identification of hexamerin core promoter elements necessary for specific transcriptional synergism between juvenile hormone and 20-OH ecdysone

Ying Wu, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Shane Byrne, University of Kentucky; Amie Chan, University of Kentucky; Deborah L. Miller, University of Kentucky

D0377

Mutagenic analysis of the transcriptional contribution of motifs in the core promoter of the juvenile hormone esterase gene

Anna Niewiadomska, University of Kentucky/Wroclaw Univ Technology; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky; Marian Kochman, Wroclaw University of Technology

D0378

Farnesoid binding to the invertebrate nuclear receptor ultraspiracle (RXR): Mutational analysis of the ligand binding pocket

Li Ye, University of Kentucky; Grace Jones, University of Kentucky; Davy Jones, University of Kentucky

D0379

UMBI’s insect transformation facility: Facilitating the use of insect genetic modification technologies

Robert A. Harrell, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; Channa Aluvihare, University of Maryland Insect Transformation Facility; David O'Brochta, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

D0380

Gliding simulations of a butterfly wing and potential applications to Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) migration

Cornelia Becker, University of Kansas; Orley R. Taylor, University of Kansas; Wonjin Jin, University of Kansas; David Alexander, University of Kansas

D0381

Fitness estimates for Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Heteroptera: Miridae) on the NI diet and modification on the NI diet

Maribel Portilla, USDA - ARS; Doug Streett, ARS-USDA National Biological Control Laboratory

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