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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

Author:

Plymale, Ruth

Title:

PLANT-MEDIATED EFFECTS ON INSECT-VIRUS INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Heliothis virescens
peritrophic matrix
tritrophic interactions
biological control
baculovirus
pathogenesis

File:

Download R_Plymale_thesis_20_July_06.pdf

Committee Members:

Kelli Hoover, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diana Lynn Cox Foster, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Member
Kelly Johnson, Committee Member
A Daniel Jones, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Po An

Title:

IMPACT OF WATER AVAILABILITY ON MULTIPLE ASPECTS OF PLANT-INSECT INTERACTIONS AND INSECT-INDUCED DROUGHT RESPONSES IN PLANTS

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

drought
antiherbivore defense
water availability
tritrophic interactions
stomata
herbivore-induced plant volatiles
CRISPR-Cas9
oral secretion
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
resistance
tolerance
abiotic stress
biotic stress

File:

Download Dissertation_Lin_PA_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jared Ali, Major Field Member
Jonathan Lynch, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Edwin Rajotte, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gary Felton, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Jared Ali, Major Field Member