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Author:

Singh, Rajwinder

Title:

ECOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RNA VIRUSES IN HYMENOPTERAN POLLINATORS

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

RNA viruses
pollinators
honey bees
bumble bees
alfalfa leafcutting bees
Apis mellifera
Bombus impatiens
Megachile rotundata
pathology
virology
DWV
IAPV
Picorna-like viruses

File:

Download RSingh-Dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Edwin George Rajotte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diana Lynn Cox Foster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Frederick Eugene Gildow Jr., Committee Member
Edward C Holmes, Committee Member
Rosalind James, Committee Member

Author:

Padilla, Mario Jeffery

Title:

Social Mechanisms Regulating Reproductive Division of Labor in Bumble Bees (bombus impatiens)

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Bumble bee
Bombus impatiens
Bombus terrestris
reproductive division of labor
pheromones
gene expression
eusocial
aggression

File:

Download Mario_Padilla_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christina M Grozinger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McGrady, Carlene Miller

Title:

Pollination Services, Colony Abundances and Population Genetics of Bombus impatiens

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Pollination
Cucurbita Agroecosystems
Bombus impatiens
Apis mellifera
Peponapis pruinosa
visitation rates
microsatellite analysis
colony abundance
population genetics

File:

Download MCGRADY_FINAL_THESIS_7.10.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelby Jay Fleischer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Committee Member
James Strange, Committee Member
Maryann Frazier, Committee Member

Author:

Starkey, Jesse

Title:

REGULATION OF BUMBLE BEE (Bombus impatiens) WORKER REPRODUCTION BY BROOD

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Bumblebee
Eusocial
Social Behavior
Reproductive division of labor
Brood
Worker reproduction
Bombus impatiens
Brood signal
Volatile pheromones
Pheromones
Choice bioassay

File:

Download Jesse_Starkey_Masters_Thesis_Summer_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Etya Amsalem, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christina M Grozinger, Committee Member
Thomas Charles Baker, Committee Member

Author:

Stewart, Hannah Leigh

Title:

Biotic and abiotic manipulation of thermoregulatory capacities in Bombus impatiens

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Bumble bee
Bombus impatiens
Immune challenge
Thermoregulation
Task switching

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Committee Members:

Robert Berghage, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christina Grozinger, Major Field Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Major Field Member
Rudolf Schilder, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julie Urban, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair