38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

August 7-11, 2005  Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A
   

Cross-Divisional Symposium

TRANSMISSION OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOGENS
Organizer: Rosalind R. James

Philip Agnew, CNRS/IRD, Montpellier, France
The evolution of virulence and transmission of disease

Don Steinkraus, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Factors affecting transmission of fungal pathogens of aphids

Lee Solter, Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, IL, USA
Consideration of vertically transmitted microsporidia for biological control

James Becnel, USDA-ARS, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Transmission of viruses to mosquito larvae mediated by divalent cations

David Oi, USDA, USDA-ARS Gainesville, Florida, USA
Effect of mono- and poly-gyne social forms on transmission and spread of microsporidia in fire ant populations