95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

411, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Edward P. Levri, Penn State Altoona

8:00 AM

COS 86-1

Putting 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 AM

COS 86-2

A gall forming mite drives drastic declines in in canopy tree photosynthesis
Rajit Patankar, University of Alabama; Sean C. Thomas, University of Toronto; Sandy M. Smith, University of Toronto

8:40 AM

COS 86-3

The 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 AM

COS 86-4

Accounting for parasites in aquatic communities: Community consequences of trematode-snail elemental mismatches
Randy Bernot, Ball State University

9:20 AM

COS 86-5

Land 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

COS 86-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 86-6

Unhealthy herds: Trait-mediated indirect effects of predators increase host susceptibility
Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan; Jessica M. Housley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rachel M. Penczykowski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Spencer R. Hall, Indiana University

10:10 AM

COS 86-7

Deceptive 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 AM

COS 86-8

Interactive effects of enrichment and the manipulation of intermediate hosts on infection prevalence and food web structure
Zachary T. Long, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Shawn J. Leroux, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis

10:50 AM

COS 86-9

Broad-sense heritability of a pathogen community in a hybrid cottonwood system
Posy E. Busby, University of Washington; George Newcombe, University of Idaho; Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University; Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University

11:10 AM

COS 86-10

Heterogeneity in daily tick acquisition rates among mice
Kimberly Tsao, Colorado State University; R. Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond; Durland Fish, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine; Maria Diuk-Wasser, Columbia University

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COS 86 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions