97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

COS 44 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions

Tuesday, August 7, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Portland Blrm 256, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
Parasite species richness in marine snails increases with latitude in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Mark Torchin, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Osamu Miura, Kochi University; Ryan Hechinger, UC Santa Barbara
8:20 AM
Testing the extended phenotype hypothesis as phylloxera induce stomata and reorganize metabolism in grapes
Paul D. Nabity, University of Illinois; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois; Evan H. DeLucia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:40 AM
Patterns of parasite infection in bumble bees (Bombus spp.) of the northern Shenandoah Valley in Virginia
Rosemary L. Malfi, University of Virginia; T'ai H. Roulston, University of Virginia
9:00 AM
Epidemiological and ecological effects of fishing on parasites of fished host species
Chelsea L. Wood, University of Colorado; Fiorenza Micheli, Stanford University; Miriam Fernández, Universidad Católica de Chile; Stefan Gelcich, Universidad Católica de Chile; Juan Carlos Castilla, Universidad Católica de Chile; Juan Carvajal, Universidad de los Lagos
9:20 AM
Competition – colonization tradeoffs promote coexistence in salt marsh trematode parasites
Erin A. Mordecai, University of North Carolina; Alejandra G. Jaramillo, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jacob E. Ashford, University of California, Santa Barbara
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Effects of variable larval tick burdens on survival of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)
Michelle H. Hersh, Eastern Michigan University; M. Andrea Previtali, Universidad Nacional del Litoral; Shannon L. LaDeau, Cary Insitute of Ecosystem Studies; Felicia Keesing, Bard College; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
10:10 AM
Life history and ecological aspects of larval amphibian behavioral consistency
Janet Koprivnikar, Brandon University; Julia C. Redfern, Brandon University
10:30 AM
From the perspective of a parasite: What factors determine success for a tick?
Erika Arnold, University of Illinois at Chicago; Godefroy Devevey, University of Pennsylvania
10:50 AM
Light-mediated behavior of marine parasitic larvae: Adaptations to enhance transmission success
Nancy F. Smith, Eckerd College; Jonathan H. Cohen, University of Delaware
11:10 AM
Host manipulation by a trematode parasite (Microphallus sp.) favors invasive rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) in competition with congeners
Lindsey W. Sargent, University of Notre Dame; Kevin Towle, University of Notre Dame; Lauren Callahan, University of Notre Dame; David M. Lodge, University of Notre Dame