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PARENT SESSION
Oral Session # 48: Mutualism - Parasitism I: Plants; Modeling.
Presiding: K Jayachandran
Wednesday, August 6. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM, SITCC Meeting Room 203.

8:00 AM Alers-Garcia, Janice *,1, Bever, James 1, Clay, Keith1, 1 Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN Effect of the parasitic plant, Cuscuta gronovii, on size inequality in populations of Pilea pumila.

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8:15 AM Schoolmaster, Donald *,1, 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104 Impact of the angiosperm parasite Cuscuta gronovii on a wetland plant community.

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8:30 AM Kummel, Miroslav*,1, Salant, Stephen1, 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI The economics of partner selection in ectomycorrhizal mutualism.

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8:45 AM Johnston, Tammy*,1, Clay, Keith1, 1 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Host plant influences parasite transmission mode in a grass-fungal endophyte association.

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9:00 AM Udovic, Daniel*,1, 1 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Phenological analysis of flowering and fruiting in Hesperoyucca whipplei.

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9:15 AM Golubski, Antonio*,1, 1 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Mutualistic traits can confer a selective advantage in a simple consumer-resource feedback model.

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9:30 AM Golinski, Michael*,1, 1 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States Ecological conditions that favor the evolution of reduced virulence in environmentally transmitted symbiotic parasites.

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