Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
411, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 86 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions
8:00 AMCOS 86-1Putting parasite escape into perspective: A biogeographic examination of parasites and hosts across their native and introduced range
April MH Blakeslee, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Irit Altman, University of New Hampshire, A. Whitman Miller, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, James E. Byers, University of Georgia, Caitlin Hamer, Duke University, Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
8:20 AMCOS 86-2A gall forming mite drives drastic declines in in canopy tree photosynthesis
Rajit Patankar, University of Toronto, Sean C. Thomas, University of Toronto, Sandy M. Smith, University of Toronto
8:40 AMCOS 86-3The effects of host plant species and polydnaviruses on the immune response of monophagous and polyphagous caterpillars
J.Gwen Shlichta, University of Maryland - BEES Program, Pedro Barbosa, University of Maryland
9:00 AMCOS 86-4Accounting for parasites in aquatic communities: Community consequences of trematode-snail elemental mismatches
Randy Bernot, Ball State University
9:20 AMCOS 86-5Land use impacts on infection of stream snails by parasitic trematodes  
Lisa K. Belden, Virginia Tech, E. Fred Benfield, Virginia Tech, Korine N. Kolivras, Virginia Tech, Candice R. Luebbering, Virginia Tech
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 86-6Unhealthy herds: Trait-mediated indirect effects of predators increase host susceptibility
Meghan A. Duffy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jessica M. Housley, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rachel M. Penczykowski, Georgia Institute of Technology, Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois, Spencer R. Hall, Indiana University
10:10 AMCOS 86-7Deceptive chemical signals induced by a plant virus attract insect vectors to inferior hosts
Kerry Mauck, The Pennsylvania State University, Consuelo De Moraes, The Pennsylvania State University, Mark Mescher, The Pennsylvania State University
10:30 AMCOS 86-8Interactive effects of enrichment and the manipulation of intermediate hosts on infection prevalence and food web structure
Zachary T. Long, UNC Wilmington, Shawn J. Leroux, McGill University, Michel Loreau, McGill University
10:50 AMCOS 86-9Broad-sense heritability of a pathogen community in a hybrid cottonwood system
Posy E. Busby, Stanford University, George Newcombe, University of Idaho, Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University, Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University
11:10 AMCOS 86-10Heterogeneity in daily tick acquisition rates among mice
Kimberly Tsao, Yale School of Medicine, R. Jory Brinkerhoff, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, Durland Fish, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, Maria Diuk-Wasser, Yale School of Medicine

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