Physiological Ecology


Abstracts from the XXI International Congress of Entomology:

I.  Synchronization with the environment

Adaptation to temperature (excluding diapause)

Lee Jr RE, Castrillo LA, Lee MR, Wyman JA & Costanzo JP, 2000, Using ice nucleating bacteria to reduce winter survival of Colorado potato beetles: Developing a novel strategy for biological control

Tsumuki H, 2000, Effects of photoperiod, temperature and hormones on glycerol content and endogenous ice nucleus production in larvae of the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Walker VK, Doucet D, Tyshenko MG, Kuiper MJ, Graham LA, Liou YC, Graether SP, Sykes BD, Jia Z & Davies PL, 2000, When you can't fly to Brazil: Surviving winter with antifreeze protein genes


Diapause

Gerson EA , Kelsey RG, & Ross DW, 2000, Pupal diapause of Coloradia pandora: Thermal constraints on successful pupation

Musolin DL, Numata H & Saulich AH, 2000, Timing of diapause induction outside the natural geographical range of a species: An outdoor experiment with the bean bug Riptortus clavatus


Reproduction

Eiras AE, 2000, The role of grass infusions as oviposition attractants and oviposition stimulants for Aedes aegypti

Kvedaras OL, Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP, Alter D & Moore C, 2000, The effects of host plant odours on the calling behaviour, egg maturation and mating success of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Meiners T & Strohm E, 2000, Sex and crime in a beetle: Female choice and deadly male - male aggression in Malachius bipustulatus

Millar JG, 2000, Oviposition attractants and oviposition stimulants for Culex mosquitoes

Nakamuta K, Gotoh T, Tokoro M & Nakashima T, 2000, Increase of trap catches by a combination of male sex pheromones and floral attractant in longhorn beetle, Alaglyptus subfasciatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Pener MP, 2000, A male view on reproductive diapause, or coadaption of male reproductive strategies to diapause in female insects


Circadian Rhythms

Chang HW & Lee HJ, 2000, The relationship between locomotor pacemaker and circadian rhythm of ERG in the german cockroach, Blattella germanica

Paulson GS, Marisic M, Kauffman M, Bossart N, Kanesiger C, Smith A, Schaefer T, Armstrong A, 2000, The design and application of an actigraph to study the circadian rhythm of the dump fly, Hydrotaea aenescens

Sasaki M, Monden N, Mitsuhata M, Ono M, 2000, Masking of circadian activity rhythm in bumble bees: A novel adaptation mechanism to high-latitude condition

Saunders DS, 2000, The blowfly, Calliphora vicina: A clockwork insect

Sehgal A, Song W, Lin F & Naidoo N, 2000, Photic entrainment of the Drosophila circadian clock

Taghert PH, Renn SCP, Park JA, Rosbash M & Hall JC, 2000, Peptidergic output of the circadian clock in Drosophila

 

Tomioka K, 2000, Protein synthesis is a required process for the circadian clock in the optic lobe of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

Truman JW, Schubiger M, Champlin D, & Riddiford LM, 2000, Possible molecular strategies that underlie the evolution of metamorphic development

Wei YS & Lee HJ, 2000, Comparative study of phase response curves between two close-related cockroaches


II. Biotic interactions

Robinson GE, 2000, From sociobiology to chronobiology: Division of labor in colonies of the honey bee Apis mellifera

Smith B.H., 2000, Molecular, physiological and ethologial perspectives on insect olfaction


Chemical Defense

Aliabadi A, Bartelt RJ & Whitman DW, 2000, Identification of chemical defense secretion of a dung beetle

Matsuyama S, Suzuki T & Sasagawa H, 2000, Semiochemicals inducing defensive behavior of Apis cerana japonica against Vespa mandarina


Pheromones

Barbosa RMR, & Regis LN, 2000, Response of gravid female Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera-Culicidae) to natural pheromone in the choice of an oviposition site

Cardé RT, Justus K, & Murlis J, 2000, Sensory inputs governing upwind flight of male moths along pheromone plumes

Coracini MDA, Bengtsson M, L-fqvist J, Eiras AE, Vilela EF, Reckziegel A & Witzgall P, 2000, Sex pheromone of the Brazilian apple leafroller, Bonagota cranaodes (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): Effect of geometricisomers on male attraction to (E,Z)-3,5-dodecadienyl acetate

Delisle J, Picimbon JF & Simard J, 2000, Physiological regulation of pheromone production and its inhibition following mating in Choristoneura fumiferana and C. Rosaceana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Dickens JC, 2000, Chemical vocabulary of the Colorado potato beetle

Ignell R & Anton S, 2000, Juvenile hormone - Its effect on aggregation behaviour and central nervous processing of aggregation pheromones in the desert locust

James DJ, 2000, Pheromone biology of a pentatomid pest of Australian citrus and a reduviid predator

Leal WS, 2000, Chemical communication in scarab beetles

Loudon C, Koehl MAR, 2000, Air flow through pectinate insect antennae and odorant interception rates

McMahon C, Guerin PM, 2000, Responses of the tropical bont tick Amblyomma variegatum to its aggregation-attachment-pheromone and to host odour on a servosphere

Millar JG, McBrien HL, Ho HY, & Rice RE, 2000, Identification of sex pheromones of economically important stink bug pests of agriculture

Schiestl FP, Peakall R, Ibarra F, & Francke W, 2000, Pollinator attraction by pheromone-mimicking volatiles in Australian and European orchids

Zanuncio JC, Torres JB, Vilela EF & Coracini MDA, 2000, Effects of pheromones in artificial diets for predatory bugs


Host selection: Interaction with plant chemistry

Andersen PC, Brodbeck BV & Mizell III RF, 2000, Physiological adaptations of leafhoppers that feed on xylem fluid: Exploring nutrient limitations as a component of integrated crop management

Bernays EA, 2000, Plant-insect interactions - A synthesis

Cornelissen TG, Fernandes GW, 2000, Damage-induced changes on leaf quality of Bauhinia brevipes (Leguminosae) and insect herbivore attack

Eiras ÁE, 2000, The role of grass infusions as oviposition attractants and oviposition stimulants for Aedes aegypti

Fernandes GW, Negreiros D, 2000, Plant hypersensitive response to gall induction across host taxa

Foster WA, 2000, Response of mosquitoes to nectar-related infochemicals of plants

Gouinguené S, Degen T, & Turlings T, 2000, Variation and specificity of herbivore-induced plant odors as foraging cues for parasitoids

Heng-Moss TM, Baxendale FP , Sarath G, Ni X , & Quisenberry SS, 2000, Characterization of protein changes in buffalo grasses challenged by chinch bug feeding

Madeiros RB & German TL, 2000, Identification of a plant virus receptor in the insect vector cells (i-virus)

Pickett JP, Prospecting with insect chemosensors for bioactives in plant and animal stress

Piubelli GC, Arruda IC, Franchini JC, Lara FM & Hoffman-Campo CB, 2000, Role of Nezara virdula (Hemiptera: Pentomidae) on inducing the production of flavonoid in soybean genotypes

Rahbé Y, Deraison C, Duportets L, Quillien L, Cristofoletti P, Terra WR, & Jouanin L, 2000, Aphids and aphid proteases as non-conventional targets for protease inhibitor transgenes used for controlling phloem-feeding insects

Silva AA, Varanda EM & Lopes NP, 2000, Saponins in three varieties and their relation to aphid resistance

Valencia AJ, Bustillo AEP, Ossa GAO, & Chrispeels MJ, 2000, Digestive ?-amylases from coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) and their inhibition by amylase inhibitors from plants

Wang FG, Zhou JX &Yang XY, 2000, Preliminary study of the behavior of selecting host of longhorned beetles and the role of their sense organs in this process

Zhang QH, Liu GT, Schlyter F, Birgersson G, Anderson P, & Valeur P, 2000, Antennal and behavioural responses to nonhost angiosperm leaf and bark volatiles by conifer insect


Insect-host interactions: Tritrophic interactions

Faraji F, Janssen A, Sabelis MW, 2000, Physiological state and associative learning determine response of predatory mite to food-related and oviposition-related volatiles

Meiner T & Hilker M, 2000, Chemical signalling between host plant and egg parasitoid of a Galercine leaf beetle

Meiner T & Hilker M, 2000, The role of induced plant volatiles for egg parasitoids and their potential for semiochemical control

Nakamuta K, Usha Rani P, Tokoro M & Nakashima T, 2000, Influence of experience on the olfactory response of a predatory beetle, Trogossita japonica (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) to volatiles of its prey-host tree complex

Pallini A, Janssen A & Sabelis MW, 2000, Odour-mediated indirect interactions in food webs


Insect-host interactions: Effect of parasitoids on host

Aldrich JR, 2000, Semiochemical coevolution between heteroptera and their tachnid fly parasitoids: Gas chromatography-electroantennogram detection and behaviour

Bernier UR, 2000, Mass spectrometric analysis of human skin emanations to identify compounds that influence the host-seeking behaviour of mosquitoes

Bosch OJ, Boeckh J, 2000, Response spectra of sensilla trichodea (A2-type) of female Aedes aegypti to human volatiles

Braks MAH, Meijerink J, Takken W, 2000, Possible role of ammonia in host-seeking behaviour of blood-feeding insects

Dahlman DL, Webb BA, 2000, Characterization and mode of action of a biologically active protein secreted by teratocytes

Guerin PM, Guerenstein P, Vlimant M & Wicky S, 2000, Sensory and behavioural responses of triatomine bus to odours of vertebrate hosts and to conspecific semiochemicals

Labuda M, Kazimírová M, Eleková E, Slovák M, Fuchsberger N & Nutall PA, 2000, Tick-host interactions in the co-feeding transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus: Cell involvement

Lawrence PO, 2000, Parasitism specific proteins and a symbiotic entomopoxvirus from Diachasmimorpha longicaudata, a parasite of tephritid fruit flies

Nutall PA, 2000, Tick-parasite interactions at the host interface

Pennacchio F, Falabella P, Varricchio P, Graziani F & Malva C, 2000, Expression of Cardiochiles nigriceps polyDNAvirus in parasitized Heliothis virescens larvae and induced host functional alterations

Pennacchio F, Rahbé Y & Tremblay E, 2000, Physiologica and nutritional interactions between the pea aphid and the endophagous braconid Aphidius ervi

Piubelli GC, Arruda IC, Franchini JC, Lara FM & Hoffman-Campo CB, 2000, Role of Nezara virdula (Hemiptera: Pentomidae) on inducing the production of flavonoid in soybean genotypes

Ravikumar G, Okuda T, 2000, Identification and characterization of a lipophorin receptor from the teratocytes of Dinocampus coccinellae

Rivero A, Giron D, Casas J, 2000, Nutritional status and the behavioural ecology of parasitoids

Silva AA, Varanda EM & Lopes NP, 2000, Saponins in three varieties and their relation to aphid resistance


Insect-microbe interactions

Schlein Y, 2000, The plant diet of sand flies is a mixed blessing for their Leishmania parasites

 

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