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A linear delay algorithm for enumerating all connected induced subgraphs

Published June 2019 by Mohammed Alokshiya, Saeed Salem, Fidaa Abed Background Real biological and social data is increasingly being represented as graphs. Pattern-mining-based graph learning and analysis techniques report meaningful biological subnetworks that elucidate important interactions among entities. At the backbone of these algorithms is the enumeration of pattern space. Results We propose an efficient…

Overwintering conditions impact insulin pathway gene expression in diapausing Megachile rotundata

Lizzette D. Cambron, George E. Yocum, Kathleen M. Yeater, Kendra J. Greenlee Diapause is a non-feeding state that many insects undergo to survive the winter months. With fixed resources, overall metabolism and insulin signaling (IIS) are maintained at low levels, but whether those change in response to seasonal temperature fluctuations remains unknown. The focus of…

Detecting insect adaptations requires consideration of variability in the abiotic environment and in ‘omics

Advances in tools to gather environmental, phenotypic, and molecular data have accelerated our ability to detect abiotic drivers of variation across the genome-to-phenome spectrum in model and non-model insects. However, differences in the spatial and temporal resolution of these data sets may create gaps in our understanding of linkages between environment, genotype, and phenotype that…

Poster Presented by Matthew Tryc

Pollinators in the Chihuahuan Desert: Broadening Our Understanding Matthew Tryc is a Master’s student at New Mexico State University. He presented this poster at the Research and Creativity Week hosted by NMSU (11/2020). Matthew has several additional sampling dates worth of specimens to pin and sort, which will be followed by identifying the less obvious…

Poster Presented by Preetpal Singh

Entomological Society of America Diapause regulation by environmental cues in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata The alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata F. (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), is an intensively managed and an important solitary pollinator for North American agriculture. M. rotundata undergoes facultative diapause in which early season progeny complete development to produce a second generation whereas…

Poster Presented by Claire Campion

Entomological Society of America Effects of cryopreservation on Bombus impatiens spermatozoa Bumblebee populations are increasingly under threat from urban and rural landscape changes, pesticides and pathogens, and climate change. Declines in population abundance and in spatial distribution has led to endangered species listing or petitions for multiple bumble bee species (e.g. B. affinis, B. terricola,…

Poster Presented by Kayla Earls

Entomological Society of America Mornings are for the bees: How microclimatic factors influence first flight Flight in insects may be limited by unfavorable environmental conditions that could have downstream effects on reproduction and pollination. Megachile rotundata is a managed solitary bee used across a range of latitudes. Primarily used for alfalfa, M. rotundata can pollinate…