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PARENT SESSION
Tuesday, August 8, 8:00-11:30 am
COS 26 - Disease ecology I: parasites
L-13, Lobby Level, Cook Convention Center
Presiders: E Lehmer and S Altizer

8:00 AMJones, Edward*,1, Boots, Mike1, White, Andy2, Haine, Eleanor1, Riguad, Thierry3, 1 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom2 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom3 University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France, Persistence of parasites with differing transmission strategies by sabotage of life cycles.

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8:20 AMIbrahim, Reda*,1, Holst, Hartwig, 1 Faculty of Agriculture Kafr Elsheikh, Tanta University, Kafr ElSheikh, KFS, Egypt, Survey of Trichogramma spp in vineyards of Rheingau Valley, Germany.

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8:40 AMFoufopoulos, Johannes*,1, Dietz, Matt1, Murdock, Courtney1, 1 SNRE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Effects of haemoparasite infections on a natural population of white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys): results of a multi-year study.

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9:00 AMJolles, Anna*,1, Ezenwa, Vanessa2, 1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR2 University of Montana, Missoula, MT, Macroparasite-microparasite interactions: worms and TB in African buffalo.

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9:20 AMHolland, Manja*,1, 1 Yale University, New Haven, CT, Mortality effects from an urban associated trematode parasite.

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9:40 AM, Break.

9:50 AMSchotthoefer, Anna*,1, Rohr, Jason2, Cole, Rebecca3, Johnson, Catherine4, Johnson, Lucinda5, Beasley, Val1, 1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL2 Penn State University, University Park, PA3 USGS National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI4 Monongahela National Forest, Elkins, WV5 University of Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth, MN, Roles of landscape patterns and human modifications to wetlands on the distributions of Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda) and other parasites of the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens).

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10:10 AMBalmer, Oliver*,1, 1 Yale University, New Haven, CT, Competition between co-infecting parasite strains alters within-host population dynamics in genetically diverse trypanosome infections.

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10:30 AMDuffy, Meghan*,1, 2, 1 Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI2 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, Is the enemy of my enemy really my friend? The combined effects of selective predators and virulent parasites on Daphnia populations.

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10:50 AMde Roode, Jacobus*,1, Altizer, Sonia*,1, 1 University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Virulence evolution in monarch butterfly parasites.

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11:10 AMSkelly, David*,1, 1 Yale University, New Haven, CT, Helminth infection is not responsible for New England amphibian deformities.

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