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1. Factors influencing the dynamics of plant-insect interactions in two solanaceous plants

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Author:
Delphia, Casey Marie
Title:
Factors influencing the dynamics of plant-insect interactions in two solanaceous plants
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
inbreeding
plant volatiles
plant-insect interactions
Nicotiana tabacum
Solanum carolinense
genetic variation
File:
Download Delphia_Doctoral_Dissertation_041208.pdf
Committee Members:
Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark C Mescher, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member

2. PARASITOID FORAGING IN A “VOLATILE” ENVIRONMENT: EFFECTS OF HOST AND HOST-PLANT SPECIES ON COTESIA MARGINIVENTRIS (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE) BEHAVIOR

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Author:
Harris, Christina Marie
Title:
PARASITOID FORAGING IN A “VOLATILE” ENVIRONMENT: EFFECTS OF HOST AND HOST-PLANT SPECIES ON COTESIA MARGINIVENTRIS (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE) BEHAVIOR
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
Spodoptera exigua
Cotesia marginiventris
plant volatiles
chemical ecology
Parasitoid
Trichoplusia ni
tritrophic interactions
File:
Download Christina_Harris_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Committee Member
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member

3. MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN THE BEE YARD

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Author:
VanEngelsdorp, Dennis
Title:
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN THE BEE YARD
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
Honey bee
epidimiology
Colony collapse disorder
File:
Download Thesis_in_template_final_2corrected.pdf
Committee Members:
Cox Foster, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diana Lynn Cox Foster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christina M Grozinger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member
Jeffery S Pettis, Committee Member

4. Natural Hybridization and Speciation in Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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Author:
Schwarz, Dietmar
Title:
Natural Hybridization and Speciation in Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
speciation via hybridization in a diploid and bise
sympatric speciation
introgressive hybridization
population genetics
host choice and acceptance behavior
Rhagoletis pomonella species group
File:
Download schwarz_complete_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Bruce A Mc Pheron, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Warren G Abrahamson Ii, Committee Member
Thomas Charles Baker, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member

6. APHID ATTENUATION OF INDUCED PLANT DEFENSES IN BROAD BEAN

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Author:
Schwartzberg, Ezra
Title:
APHID ATTENUATION OF INDUCED PLANT DEFENSES IN BROAD BEAN
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
Aphids
Chemical Ecology
Broad Beans
File:
Download SchwartzbergDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Tumlinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Frederick Eugene Gildow Jr., Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Member

7. USING A DEVELOPMENTAL COMPARISON TO DECIPHER PRIMING OF INDUCED DEFENSES IN MAIZE AND ITS EFFECTS ON A GENERALIST HERBIVORE

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Author:
Bosak, Elizabeth James
Title:
USING A DEVELOPMENTAL COMPARISON TO DECIPHER PRIMING OF INDUCED DEFENSES IN MAIZE AND ITS EFFECTS ON A GENERALIST HERBIVORE
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
Spodoptera exigua
Zea mays
priming
ontogeny
induced defenses
herbivore-induced plant volatiles
File:
Download Bosak_Final_2011.pdf
Committee Members:
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Member

8. MATING DISRUPTION AND MONITORING OF CODLING MOTH (Cydia pomonella L.) AND ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH (Grapholita molesta Busck) IN PENNSYLVANIA APPLE ORCHARDS

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Author:
Bohnenblust, Eric
Title:
MATING DISRUPTION AND MONITORING OF CODLING MOTH (Cydia pomonella L.) AND ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH (Grapholita molesta Busck) IN PENNSYLVANIA APPLE ORCHARDS
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
mating disruption
oriental fruit moth
codling moth
File:
Download EricFullThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Larry Allen Hull, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Larry Allen Hull, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Grzegorz Krawczyk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

9. The Green Drakes of Spring Creek: Toward Reestablishing a Population of the Mayfly Ephemera guttulata Pictet 1843(ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae)

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Author:
Stout, Hannah Lee
Title:
The Green Drakes of Spring Creek: Toward Reestablishing a Population of the Mayfly Ephemera guttulata Pictet 1843(ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae)
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
Ephemera guttulata
Ephemeroptera
macroinvertebrate
conservation
reintroduction
restoration
File:
Download Hannah_L._Stout_-_Dissertation_-_May_2012.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael Craig Saunders, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Lewis Frazier, Committee Member
Gregory Allen Hoover, Special Member
Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Committee Member
Ke Chung Kim, Committee Member

10. Chemically-mediated interactions between the parasitic plant Cuscuta pentagona, its host plants, and insect herbivores

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Author:
Runyon, Justin Blake
Title:
Chemically-mediated interactions between the parasitic plant Cuscuta pentagona, its host plants, and insect herbivores
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
Cuscuta
parasitic plant
chemical ecology
plant volatiles
host-parasite interactions
defense signalling
File:
Download Runyon_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark C Mescher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member