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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

Author:

Currano, Ellen Diane

Title:

VARIATIONS IN INSECT HERBIVORY ON ANGIOSPERM LEAVES THROUGH THE LATE PALEOCENE AND EARLY EOCENE IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING, USA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
insect herbivory
plant-insect interactions
Bighorn Basin
global warming

File:

Download Thesis_Currano_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Scott W Wing, Committee Member
Conrad C Labandeira, Committee Member
Russell W Graham, Committee Member
Lee Ann Newsom, Committee Member

Author:

Donovan, Michael Philip

Title:

Novel insect leaf-mining at Mexican Hat, Montana (early Paleocene) and the demise of Cretaceous leaf miners

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

plant-insect interactions
Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction
herbivory
paleoecology
Fort Union Formation
Powder River Basin

File:

Download Donovan_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Castano-Duque, Lina M

Title:

MAIZE DEFENSE RESPONSES AND STRATEGIES AGAINST ABOVEGROUND AND BELOWGROUND INSECTS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

maize
Diabrotica virgifera virgifera
Spodotera frugiperda
plant-insect interactions
plant defenses
proteomics
network biology

File:

Download Castano-Duque_Disseration_manuscript_FINAL.pdfDownload Note_S3.1.cysDownload Note_S3.2.cysDownload Table_S3.1.xlsxDownload Table_S3.2.xlsxDownload Table_S3.3.xlsxDownload Table_S3.4.xlsxDownload Note_S4.1.cysDownload Note_S4.2.cysDownload Table_S4.1.xlsxDownload Table_S4.2.xlsxDownload Table_S4.3.xlsxDownload Table_S4.4.xlsx

Committee Members:

Dawn S. Luthe, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn S. Luthe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen M. Brown, Committee Member
Réka Albert, Committee Member
Mary Barbercheck, Outside Member

Author:

Rivera Vega, Loren Jackeline

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF HOST PLANT DRIVEN PLASTICITY OF THE CABBAGE LOOPER (TRICHOPLUSIA NI) SALIVA

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

entomology
chemical ecology
phenotypic plasticity
transcriptome
proteome
cabbage looper
caterpillar saliva
plant-insect interactions
host plant

File:

Download 2017_Loren_Rivera_Vega_Dissertation_final-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Member
Christina M Grozinger, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Outside Member
James Homer Tumlinson III, Committee Member

Author:

Paudel Timilsena, Bipana

Title:

Reducing crop loss to herbivore pests: From modeling risk of herbivore invasion and establishment to harnessing plant defenses via priming

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

plant defense priming
herbivore specificity
modeling
CLIMEX
plant-insect interactions

File:

Download Bipana_PhD_Dissertation_22Jul2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Edwin Rajotte, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Major Field Member
Mark Guiltinan, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Tumlinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair