| Friday, 4 August 2006: 10:00 AM-12:20 PM | |||
| Diplomat (Omni Shoreham Hotel) | |||
| Symposium 21: Coevolution between social insects and their macroparasites | |||
| Social insects are host species of a variety of macroparasites. The symposium will focus on interactions between hosts and parasites and their coevolutionary arms race. A broad taxonomic range and an interdisciplinary approach will allow a new synthesis and open new avenues for future research. | |||
| Organizers: | Patrizia D'Ettorre Peter Neumann Joan Herbers Susanne Foitzik | ||
| 10:00 AM | 236 | Social parasite sympatry and the geographic mosaic of coevolution Joan Herbers, Christine Johnson | |
| 10:20 AM | 237 | Field manipulations and chemical analyses indicate local adaptation of a social parasite Susanne Foitzik, Miriam Brandt | |
| 10:40 AM | 238 | Coevolution of chemical mimicry of Maculinea butterflies and their Myrmica ant hosts: The importance of spatial scale and gene flow David R. Nash | |
| 11:00 AM | 239 | Host-parasite co-evolution in social wasps (Polistes atrimandibularis and P. biglumis, Hymenoptera Vespidae) Cristina M. Lorenzi, Mario Cavallo, Valeria Di Bona, Stefania Fucini | |
| 11:20 AM | 240 | Evolutionary dynamics of altruists vs. social parasites in the parthenogenetic ant, Pristomyrmex punctatus Kazuki Tsuji, Tomonori Sasaki, Hideaki Mori, Shigeto Dobata, Eisuke Hasegawa | |
| 11:40 AM | 241 | Invasion meltdown in social bees? The small hive beetle and the honeybee as a couple of invasive species Peter Neumann, Dorothee Hoffmann, Mark K. Greco, Sebastian Spiewok, Katharina Merkel, Jeffery S. Pettis, Robert Spooner-Hart, Anne Dollin, Michael Duncan | |
| 12:00 PM | 242 | Social parasites as model systems to study fundamental questions in evolutionary biology Patrizia D'Ettorre | |
| Sponsor: | Invited Symposia Presentations | ||
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