Session: Ten-Minute Papers, MUVE: Vector Ecology (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 1:30 PM-4:05 PM

Royal Palm, Salon 5-6 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderators:

Joel Hutcheson
Glen A. Scoles

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:35 PM

1637

Decades of domestic Boophilus ticks

Joel Hutcheson, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

1:47 PM

1638

Invasive plant-invasive insect interactions: Giant reed invasions as suitable refuge for cattle fever ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

Alex E. Racelis, University of Texas Pan-American; Ronald B. Davey, USDA - ARS; John A. Goolsby, USDA-ARS; Adalberto A. Perez de Leon, USDA - ARS; Roberta Duhaime, USDA-APHIS-VS; Kevin P. Warner, USDA-APHIS-VS

1:59 PM

1639

Amblyomma cajennense implicated as a vector in a large outbreak of equine piroplasmosis in southern Texas

Glen A. Scoles, USDA - ARS

2:11 PM

1640

Functional characterization of Amblyomma americanum salivary gland proteins

Muahmmad, Sohail Sajid, The University of Southern Mississippi; Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi

2:23 PM

1641

Exploring ecological immunology of the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni)

Jeb Owen, Washington State University; Glen A. Scoles, USDA - ARS; David W. Crowder, University of Arizona

2:35 PM

1642

Effect of larval nutrition on reproductive success in males of the African malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)

Nnaemeka Francis Ezeakacha, University of Southern Mississippi; Daniel Boakye, Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research; Delphina A Gomez, University of Ghana

2:47 PM

Break

2:59 PM

1643

Non-additive effects of leaf resources on mosquito competition and production in container habitats

MH. Reiskind, Oklahoma State University; L. Philip Lounibos, University of Florida; Ali Zarrabi, Oklahoma State University

3:11 PM

1644

Microbial community responses to larval competition between Aedes triseriatus and Ae. japonicus

Michael G. Kaufman, Michigan State University; Elizabeth A. Brouhard, Michigan State University; Edward D. Walker, Michigan State University

3:23 PM

1645

Oviposition response of container-mosquitoes Aedes albopictus and A. aegypti to larval presence and resource availability in urban cemeteries of Tampa, FL

Joseph E. Fader, Illinois State University; Steven A. Juliano, Illinois State University

3:35 PM

1646

Can pesticides and larval competition alter susceptibility of Aedes mosquitoes to arbovirus infection?

Ephantus J. Muturi, University of Illinois; Katie Costanzo, University of Illinois; Barry W. Alto, University of Florida

3:47 PM

1647

Making connections between container mosquito performance and detrital decay using stable isotope analysis across different food environments: A study of Aedes albopictus and Culex restuans

Anne E. Winters, University of Southern Mississippi; Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi

3:59 PM

Concluding Remarks

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