Current Advances in Acarology On-Demand Presentations

Organizer(s)

• 

  Patricia Pietrantonio

  Professor
  Department of Entomology
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas
• 

  Amy Murillo

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Entomology
  University of California
  Riverside, California

This symposium is organized by the Acarological Society of America (ASA) and houses the graduate student competition. Additionally, speakers from different career stages will present research on interactions of acari at multiple levels, ecological, organismal and suborganismal, covering parasites of vertebrates and insects, plant and predatory mites, and soil-dwelling mites.

Presentations:

• On Demand

  Myotropic activity of tick pyrokinin neuropeptides and a pyrokinin analog in feeding tissues of hard ticks (Ixodidae).
  

  Presenting Author: Caixing Xiong – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: Juan Wulff – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: Ronald Nachman – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Patricia V. Pietrantonio – Texas A&M University
• On Demand

  Pyrokinin receptor silencing in females of the southern cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is associated with a reproductive fitness cost
  

  Presenting Author: Juan Wulff – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: Kevin B. Temeyer – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jason Tidwell – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Kristie G. Schlechte – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Caixing Xiong – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Kimberly H. Lohmeyer – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Patricia V. Pietrantonio – Texas A&M University