| Thursday, 3 August 2006: 8:00 AM-10:00 PM | |||
| Ambassador (Omni Shoreham Hotel) | |||
| Posters and Exhibits, Group B | |||
| Presenters are required to be at their posters from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. during the evening session. | |||
| 523 | Revealing symbiosis in the miniature ecosystem of Megalopta bee nests Natalia B. Biani, William T. Wcislo | ||
| 524 | Circannual clock regulates Formosan subterranean termite soldier formation Lixin Mao, Gregg Henderson | ||
| 525 | Ropalidia marginata: male wasps feed larvae, given an opportunity Ruchira Sen, Raghavendra Gadagkar | ||
| 526 | The geographical variability of the secretions of the cephalic labial glands of Bombus pratorum L. males Olivia Ponchau, Michael Terzo, Murat Aytekin, Irena Valterova, Stéphanie Iserbyt, Denis Michez, Pierre Rasmont | ||
| 404 | Preliminary studies on social communication in males of Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Edgar Javier Hernandez | ||
| 527 | A threshold triggering ant trail-laying modified by starvation Anne-Catherine Mailleux, Detrain Claire, Deneubourg Jean-Louis | ||
| 528 | Functional ecdysone receptor in the developing mushroom bodies of the carpenter ant, Camponotus japonicus Kenji Hara | ||
| 529 | Responsiveness to light and sucrose in honey bees (Apis mellifera) Jennifer M. Tsuruda, M. Kim Fondrk, Robert E. Page | ||
| 530 | Geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase is related to the biosynthesis of defensive secretion in Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Isoptera: Termitidae) Masaru Hojo, Tadao Matsumoto, Toru Miura | ||
| 531 | Sex pheromones and trail-following pheromones in Zootermopsis nevadensis and Z. angusticollis (Isoptera, Termopsidae) Christian Bordereau, Michael Lacey, Jean Ghostin, Jean-Claude Braekman, David Sillam-Dussès, Alain Robert, Janet S. Shellman, Etienne Sémon | ||
| 532 | Morphogenesis of the worker spermatheca in poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Ayako Gotoh, Johan Billen, Fuminori Ito | ||
| 533 | Resin collection: a special job in the organization of honeybee colonies Jun Nakamura, Thomas D. Seeley | ||
| 534 | Hierarchy maintenance in the ant Temnothorax unifasciatus Elisabeth Brunner, Jürgen Heinze | ||
| 535 | A collaborative cellulose digestion system in the lower termite Reticulitermes flavipes Xuguo Zhou, Joseph A. Smith, Faith M. Oi, Phillip G. Koehler, Michael E. Scharf | ||
| 536 | Using simple rules to solve complex problems – Measurements and modeling of army ant swarms Timothy B. Brown, Fred R. Adler | ||
| 537 | Compound eye development during caste differentiation in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Kiyoto Maekawa, Sayaka Mizuno, Shigeyuki Koshikawa, Toru Miura | ||
| 538 | Ontogenesis of morphological caste-intermediates in honeybee female: differences in the tendency toward caste specific forms among external characters Mariko Miyagawa, Jun Nakamura | ||
| 539 | Queen signal of the stingless bee Melipona beecheii (Apidae, Meliponini) Stefan Jarau, Robert Twele, Wittko Francke, Ingrid Aguilar, Johan Van Veen, Manfred Ayasse | ||
| 540 | Cymbidium devonianum and Cymbidium suavissimum as well as Cymbidium floribundum attracts Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) Michio Sugahara | ||
| 541 | Microsatellite Analyses of Commercial Bumblebees Isabel Mª Santorroman-Mendizabal, Ana Roldan-Serrano, Jose M. Guerra-Sanz | ||
| 542 | A Density-Dependent Phase Transition in Colony Foraging Efficiency and Individual Flexibility in Honey Bees Andreas Loengarov, Valery Tereshko | ||
| 543 | Are parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, winning the pheromone contest? Lee-Ann Noach-Pienaar, Theresa C. Wossler, Michael H. Allsopp | ||
| 544 | Origin and maintenance of polygyny in ants : the particular case of a highly polygynous brazilian species, Crematogaster sp. prox. abstinens Rachid Hamidi, Yves Quinet, Jean-Christophe De Biseau | ||
| 545 | Developmental regulation of the wing polyphenism in aphids Asano Ishikawa, Toru Miura | ||
| 546 | Do invasions only occur in remote introduction areas? Evidence from the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata Jérôme Orivel, Julien Le Breton, Julien Grangier, Francois-Xavier Andrès, Denis Fournier, Arnaud Estoup, Julien Foucaud, Hervé Jourdan, Alain Dejean | ||
| 547 | Purification and characterization of alpha–glucosidase in Apis cerana Chanpen Chanchao, Suwisa Pilalum, Rumpalai Padoongsupalai, Polkit Sangvanich, Siriwat Wongsiri, MR Jisnuson Svasti | ||
| 548 | Influence of termite soldier head extracts on caste differentiation in Reticulitermies flavipes Matt Tarver, Caitlin Buckspan, Xugou Zhou, Michael E. Scharf | ||
| 549 | The postembryonic developmental regulation specific to intermorphic queens in Myrmecina nipponica (Hymenoptera; Myrmicinae) Satoshi Miyazaki, Takahiro Murakami, Noriko Azuma, Seigo Higashi, Toru Miura | ||
| 550 | Foraging in Temnothorax rugatulus ants: Individual search... rules! Amelie Schmolke, Anna Dornhaus | ||
| 551 | Intrinsic caste determination in the termite Reticulitermes kanmonensis Osamu Kitade, Shiori Odaira, Akiko Asano, Yoshinobu Hayashi | ||
| 552 | Cryptic Potential Queens in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata Anindita Bhadra, Raghavendra Gadagkar | ||
| 553 | Regulation of Social Behavior by Vitellogenin Gene Kate E. Ihle, C. Mindy Nelson, Gro V. Amdam, M. Kim Fondrk, Robert E. Page Jr. | ||
| 554 | Defensive Strategy of Yellow Hornet against Predation by Giant Hornet Masato Ono | ||
| 555 | Honey bee use of an en-route landmark over a long distance Frank Bartlett, Fred C. Dyer | ||
| 556 | Queen-worker dimorphism in the sperm reservoir of poneromorph ants Bruno Gobin, Fuminori Ito, Christian Peeters, Johan Billen | ||
| 557 | Possible Evidence Via Direct Observation for Task Allocation in Reticulitermes Flavipes Jeff G. Whitman, Brian T. Forschler | ||
| 558 | Gaseous neurotransmitter/modulator-related genes expressed in the brain of honeybee Apis mellifera Takayuki Watanabe, Etsuro Ito | ||
| 559 | Effects of protein constrained brood food on honey bee pollen foraging and colony growth Ramesh R. Sagili, Tanya Pankiw | ||
| 560 | Division of labor during the organization of open-air foraging of Syntermes molestus (Termitidae:Nasutitermitinae) Dayaleth Alfonzo, Solange Issa | ||
| 561 | Polistes foragers must learn to associate olfactory contextual cues with larval prey Martha R. Weiss, Erin E. Wilson, Jacob Crawford | ||
| 562 | Effect of a releaser pheromone on behavior and brain gene expression in honey bees Cédric Alaux, Gene E. Robinson | ||
| 563 | Honey bee queen cell provisioning behavior Thomas C. Webster, Vaishnavi Kothandaraman, Jeff Ashley, Larry Holloway, Daniel Shewa | ||
| 564 | Invasion of Solenopsis invicta in Puerto Rico Charito Orengo-Rodríguez | ||
| 565 | Identification of proteins expressed in region-selective manners in the honeybee brain using proteomics Yuko Uno, Tomoko Fujiyuki, Mizue Morioka, Hideaki Takeuchi, Takeo Kubo | ||
| 566 | The mechanism of usurpation of European honey bee nests by Africanized honey bee swarms David C. Gilley | ||
| 567 | An open-air foraging behavior of Syntermes molestus (Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae) Dayaleth Alfonzo, Solange Issa | ||
| 568 | Drone regulation in honeybee colonies: a case for queen-worker cooperation? Katie E. Wharton, Fred C. Dyer, Zachary Huang, Thomas Getty | ||
| 569 | Divergent chemical cues elicit seed-collecting in ant-garden ants Elsa Youngsteadt, Satoshi Nojima, Coby Schal | ||
| 570 | Kinship and cheating in social aphids Patrick Abbot | ||
| 571 | Effects of flight on gene expression in the honey bee brain Brendon L. Fussnecker, Christina M. Grozinger | ||
| 572 | Respiration, metabolism and activity level differences between workers with genetic caste determination and normal workers in harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex rugosus and P. barbatus Glennis E. Julian, Sara Helms Cahan | ||
| 573 | Exploring the Form and Function of the “Sponge Body” Gland in the Dacetini Sara Kantarovich, James Nardi, Andrew Suarez | ||
| 574 | Stress and mortality effects on feeding of Coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Robert Woodrow, J. Kenneth Grace | ||
| 575 | Thermal Regulation of Circadian Locomotive Rhythm in the Japanese Honeybee Apis cerana japonica Taro Fuchikawa, Isamu Shimizu | ||
| 576 | Can Constraints on Natural Selection explain Interspecific Differences in Dance Error in Apis? David A. Tanner, P. Kirk Visscher | ||
| 577 | Variation in the age polyethism of three genetically distinct strains of the honeybee, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Adam J. Siegel, M. Kim Fondrk, Robert E. Page | ||
| 578 | Polymorphism and division of labor in the leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex octospinosus (Formicidae: Attini) during cycles of foraging and gardening Jennifer Lauren Berglund, Mario L. Muscedere, James F.A. Traniello | ||
| 579 | The role of cuticular hydrocarbons in the parasitic interaction between the cuckoo butterfly, Niphanda fusca, and the host ant, Camponotus japonicus Masaru K. Hojo, Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Mamiko Ozaki, Ryohei Yamaoka | ||
| 580 | Recruitment to Food Sources by Foragers of the Stingless Bee, Melipona beecheii Juliana Rangel | ||
| 581 | Analysis of liquid excretion and its potential role in the fire ant reproduction Asha Rao, S. Bradleigh Vinson | ||
| 582 | Effect of age and oxidative stress on Hsp70 expression in the honey bee, Apis mellifera Jason B. Williams, Stephen P. Roberts, Michelle M. Elekonich | ||
| 583 | Age and Brood Care in the Ant Pheidole dentata: Are callows really specialists? Tara Willey, Mario Muscedere, James F. Traniello | ||
| 584 | Never Let Them See You Sweat: Extraordinary Thermotolerance and Hsp70 Induction Temperatures in the Honey Bee Apis mellifera Michelle M. Elekonich, Stephen P. Roberts | ||
| 585 | Sexual production in the fission-performing ant Aphaenogaster senilis Raphaël Boulay | ||
| 586 | Behavioral ontogeny followed by reproductive division of labor in the Japanese ponerine ant Diacamma sp Okada Yasukazu, Kazuki Tsuji, Toru Miura | ||
| 587 | BeeBase: Supporting Honey Bee Sociogenomics Christine G. Elsik, Natalia V. Milshina, Justin T. Reese, Anand Venkatraman, C. Michael Dickens | ||
| 588 | Primary Polygyny in the Desert Seed-Harvester Ant, Messor pergandei Kevin P. O'Connor, Sara Helms Cahan, Ken R. Helms | ||
| 589 | Competitive Interactions of Ground-Foraging Ants in the Siskiyou-Klamath Ecoregion Sarah E. Wittman, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Nathan J. Sanders, Aaron E. Ellison | ||
| 590 | Caste-dependent sleep of worker honey bees Barrett Anthony Klein | ||
| 591 | Brood pheromone modulation of pollen forager activity in honey bees Apis Mellifera Bradley N. Metz, Tanya Pankiw | ||
| 592 | Increased activity in a mushroom body neuron subtype in the brains of forager and dancer honeybees Taketoshi Kiya, Takekazu Kunieda, Takeo Kubo | ||
| 593 | Mating flights of Africanized honey bees in Puerto Rico Alberto Galindo-Cardona, Gabriela Quiñonez, Bert Rivera Marchand, Tugrul Giray | ||
| 594 | Chemistry of the Feces of Red Imported Fire Ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Jian Chen | ||
| 595 | Sex ratio adjustment in response to relatedness asymmetry variation in social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis Joël Meunier, Stuart A. West, Michel Chapuisat | ||
| 596 | Bumblebee colonies (Bombus impatiens) as alternative hosts of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) Dorothee Hoffmann, Peter Neumann, Jeffery S. Pettis | ||
| 597 | Does decreased division of labor lead to improved fitness in foundress associations of Pogonomyrmex californicus? Rebecca M. Clark, Jennifer H. Fewell | ||
| 598 | Queen monopoly over reproduction: implications for colony founding success in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus Seven S. Suni, Deborah M. Gordon | ||
| 599 | Predictors of the spread of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) across scales and regions Sean B. Menke, Robert N. Fisher, Walter Jetz, David A. Holway | ||
| 600 | Behavioral maturation and learning in the bumblebee Bombus occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Andre J. Riveros, Wulfila Gronenberg | ||
| 601 | Split sex ratio evolution with simple family relatedness structure and facultative worker biasing Ken R. Helms, Connor P. Hayden | ||
| 602 | Megalomyrmex symmetochus and Trachymyrmex zeteki: Behavioral interactions from infiltration to cohabitation Andrew J. Tseng, Rachelle M. M. Adams | ||
| 603 | Liquid food distribution and its relation to food quality in honeybee (Apis mellifera ) colonies Christoph Grüter, Walter Farina | ||
| 604 | How aggressive are invasive ant species? Leïla Von Aesch, Daniel Cherix | ||
| 605 | Cheater genes in a social microorganism David C. Queller, Kevin R. Foster, Natasha Mehdiabadi, Lorenzo Santorelli, Owen Gilbert, Gad Shaulsky, Joan E. Strassmann | ||
| 606 | 'Cheating' strategies in the Allodapine, Exoneura robusta as a precurser to the evolution of social parasitism Sally L. Harradine | ||
| 607 | Soldier-specific modification of the mandibular motor neurons in termites Yuki Ishikawa, Toru Miura | ||
| 608 | The Round and Waggle Dances of the Honey Bee: One Dance or Two? Kathryn E. Gardner, Thomas D. Seeley, Nick Calderone | ||
| 609 | Queen dimorphism and mating frequency in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex (Ephebomyrmex) pima Carter Tate Holbrook, Robert A. Johnson, Jürgen Gadau | ||
| 610 | Spatially Explicit Model for Altruist-Cheater Population Dynamics in the Ant Pristomyrmex punctatus Shigeto Dobata, Tomonori Sasaki, Masakazu Shimada, Kazuki Tsuji | ||
| 611 | Caste Specificity of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Sting Apparatus and Ontogenic Development of Stinging Yuuki Katou, Keiko Nakamura, Masami Sasaki | ||
| 612 | When killers grow old: decrease of fighting ability in honeybee queen ontogeny Sebastian Spiewok, Peter Neumann | ||
| 613 | Bumblebees and Honeybees: A Comparison of Individual Foraging Decisions in a Changing Environment John M. Townsend-Mehler, Fred C. Dyer | ||
| 614 | Eradication attempt against the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata. A case study in a New Caledonian dry forest reserve Alan R. Vergnes, Hervé JOURDAN | ||
| 615 | Social Parasitism in Allodapine Bees: Impacts of an Inquiline Jaclyn A. Smith, Michael. P Schwarz | ||
| 616 | Effect of social stimuli on the development of learning capability in the honeybee, Apis mellifera Shogo Nomura, Naoko Ichikawa, Tetsuhiko Sasaki, Masami Sasaki | ||
| 617 | How do you kill your sisters?: strategies to eliminate rival queens in honeybee Ken-ichi Harano, Yukinori Shibai, Yoshiaki Obara, Masami Sasaki | ||
| 618 | Liquid-Feeding Biomechanics of an Ant (Camponotus herculeanus) Revealed Using Synchrotron X-ray Imaging Steven C. Cook, John J. Socha, Wah Keat Lee, Kamel Fezzaa, Mark W. Westneat | ||
| 619 | Mate locally, disperse globally - mating and dispersal patterns in invasive and non-invasive garden ants Line V. Ugelvig, Klaus S. Petersen, Jes S. Pedersen, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Sylvia Cremer | ||
| 620 | Varroa and Apis in Thailand: mtDNA and AFLP studies of genetic strains of host and parasites Deborah R. Smith, Natapot Warrit | ||
| 621 | Comparative neuromorphology and division of labor in North American Pheidole Mario L. Muscedere, James F. A. Traniello | ||
| 622 | Mating success of large and small males in honey bees: the effect of sexual selection on social behaviour and intracolony reproductive conflict Margaret J. Couvillon, William O. Hughes, Juan A. Perez-Sato, Stephen J. Martin, Francis L.W. Ratnieks | ||
| 623 | Genetic relationships among introduced populations of Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile, in Japan Masanori Hirata, Osamu Hasegawa, Takahiro Toita, Seigo Higashi | ||
| 624 | A New Nematode Parasite, Sphaerularia SP., That Sterilizes Quees of the Hornet Vespa simillima in Japan Katsuhiko Sayama, Hajime Kosaka, Shun'ichi Makino | ||
| 625 | Dopamine, octopamine and tyramine influence locomotor behavior in the honey bee Apis mellifera Julie A. Mustard, Brendon L. Fussnecker, Priscilla M. Pham, Brian H Smith | ||
| 626 | Distributional and seasonal activity patterns of exotic and native ants in Okinawa Island Mayuko Suwabe, Hitoshi Ohnishi, Tomonori Kikuchi, Kazuki Tsuji | ||
| 627 | “Nematode Associates of Social and Solitary Sweat Bees” Quinn S. McFrederick | ||
| 628 | Tramp ants of Christmas Island Melissa Thomas, Volker Framenau | ||
| 629 | Effects of parasitism by Xenos moutoni on colonial development and productivity in the hornet Vespa analis Shun'ichi Makino, Hiromi Yamauchi | ||
| 630 | Population Genetic Structure of the Crazy Ant, Paratrechina longicornis, in Biosphere 2 Emily A. Matthews, Volker Witte, James K. Wetterer, Michael A. D. Goodisman | ||
| 631 | Differential rates of inter-gall dispersal in Tamalia gall-inducers and inquilines (Aphididae) Donald G. Miller III | ||
| 632 | Use of pheromones in bait stations to control the invasive European fire ant, Myrmica rubra Nicola R. Gammans, Frank Drummond, Ellie Groden, Philip Stock | ||
| 633 | Hyperkinesis in a Polistes Social Parasite during Usurpation Period Rita Cervo, Irene Ortolani, Stefano Turillazzi | ||
| 634 | Impact of the foraging patterns of an invasive ant species, Solenopsis invicta on the foraging activity of native ant species Vedham Karpakakunjaram, Russell Wright | ||
| 635 | Army Ant Mites: the Most Specialized Mites Found on Any Social Insect R. J. Elzinga, C. W. Rittenmeyer, Stefanie M. Berghoff | ||
| 636 | The Ant Camponotus japonicus Attending the Reverdin's Blue Butterfly, Lycaeides argyrognomon, Until Adult Butterfly Emergence Yasuo Hagiwara, Michihito Watanabe | ||
| 637 | An update of the ant fauna of Tahiti and Moorea (French Polynesia) Stephanie Ledoux, Yohann Allouche, Jean-Yves Meyer, Rudolph Putoa, Hervé JOURDAN | ||
| 638 | Ontogeny of the defensive stinging behavior of the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Kevin L. Haight | ||
| 639 | Resolution of Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella L.) Threat on Colony Health in Ogun State of Nigeria James S. Oluwole | ||
| 640 | Evolution of intraspecific social parasitism by honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.) Stephan Härtel, Peter Neumann, Theresa C. Wossler, Robin M. Crewe, Robin F. A. Moritz | ||
| 641 | Ecological effects of an invasive social wasp on endemic Hawaiian arthropods Erin E. Wilson, David A. Holway | ||
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