8:00 AM Leigh, Michael^{*,1, 3}, Inouye, David^{2, 3}, ¹ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA³ Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, 81224² University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 81224 The 'long arm' of protective mutualisms.

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8:20 AM Altfeld, Laura¹, Stiling, Peter¹, ¹ University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Myrmecophily on Baccharis halimifolia - the effects of an ant-homopteran mutualism on a community of insects.

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8:40 AM LeBrun, Edward^*,1, Feener, Donald², ¹ University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA² University of Utah, Sale Lake City, UT Attack by phorid flies enforces the dominance-discovery trade-off in an assemblage of woodland ants.

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9:00 AM Cooper, Laura ^*,1, Murphy, John¹, Eubanks, Micky¹, ¹ Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA Effects of ant-aphid mutualisms on arthropod community strucutre & spread of aphid-vectored viruses.

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9:20 AM Mooney, Kailen^*,1, ¹ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Indirect emergent properties of bird and ant effects on ponderosa pine growth and phloem chemistry.

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9:40 AM Break.

9:50 AM Morris, William^*,1, Ness, Josh², Bronstein, Judith², ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC, USA² University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Interspecific competition among ant mutualists: Consequences for a cactus producing extrafloral nectar.

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10:10 AM Ness, Josh^*,1, Morris, William², Bronstein, Judith¹, ¹ University of Arizona, Tucson² Duke University, Durham Contrasting the diet and aggressiveness of the ant bodyguards tending an extrafloral nectary-bearing plant.

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10:30 AM Marussich, Wendy^*,1, ¹ wendy.marussich@asu.edu, Tempe, AZ, USA Fatty acid composition of seeds and elaiosome in three species of Datura.

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10:50 AM Nicolai, Nancy^*,1, Smeins, F.¹, Cook, J.², ¹ Texas A&M University, College Station, TX² Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX Interaction between season and community composition on seed preference by Pogonomyrmex barbataus, red harvester ant.

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