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Oral Session #79: Mutualism / Parasitism.
Presiding: J. Bronstein
Thursday, August 8. 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Cochise Meeting Room, TCC.

[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Hamilton, Cyd*,1, Faeth, Stan1, 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Sex ratios, chemical interactions and endophyte transmission; Looking for answers.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] FAETH, STANLEY*,1, SULLIVAN, TJ1, HELANDER, MARJO2, SAIKKONEN, KARI2, 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona2 University of Turku, Turku, Finland. The mutualists that weren't: Asexual, systemic endophytic fungi in native grasses.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Oliver, Kerry*,1, Russell, Jacob1, Moran, Nancy1, Hunter, Martha1, 1 University of Arizona, Tucson. Bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Hunter, Martha*,1, Kelly, Suzanne1, Zchori-Fein, Einat2, 1 University of Arizona, Tucson2 Newe Ya'ar Research Station, Ramat Yishay, Israel. Reproductive phenotypes of parasitoid wasps with a vertically-transmitted bacterial symbiont unrelated to Wolbachia.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Bonsall, Michael*,1, 1 Imperial College (Silwood Park), London, United Kingdom. Invasion and dynamics of latent infection strategies in insect host-pathogen interactions.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Gerardo, Nicole*,1, Currie, Cameron2, Mueller, Ulrich1, 1 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas2 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Disease ecology of Escovopsis, a co-evolved pathogen of the attine ant-fungal mutualism.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Whitney, Kenneth*,1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, (kwhitney@ucdavis.edu). Experimental evidence that both parties benefit in an Australian plant-spider mutualism.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Marussich, Wendy*,1, 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Exploring the nature of the relationship between Datura seeds and Pogonomyrmex californicus ants.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Brunner, Jesse*,1, Schock, Danna1, Collins, James1, Davidson, Elizabeth1, 1 Department of Biology, Tempe, Arizona. Persistence of a lethal ranavirus in a seasonally abundant salamander host.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Wilson, Will*,1, Morris, Bill1, Bronstein, Judith2, 1 Duke University, Durham, NC2 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Coexistence of mutualists and exploiters on spatial landscapes.

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