Sagehen Creek Field Station

17 Aug, 02 AM - 19 Aug, 11 AM

To learn more about the unusual visual system of Strepsiptera, whose compound eyes consist of conglomerates of apparently image-forming simple eyes, rather than single pixel resolving ommatidia of basically all other known insect compound eyes. I will be searching for infected (stylopized) Ammophila wasps so that I may extract and sequence DNA from the parasite, to provide a reference genome for anticipated future work designed to elucidate the presence of one or more photoreceptor classes. [Are the animals monochromatic or not?] This work - if successful - would add on to that done by Buschbeck et al., 1999 in which no photoreceptor projections were found to extend to the part of the insect brain that processes color vision in other insects. Eventually transcriptomic and spectral sensitivity work on (living) adult male Strepsiptera is also to be undertaken.

Visit #26013 @Sagehen Creek Field Station

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Under Project # 24057 | Research

The visual ecology of Strepsiptera

graduate_student - University of California, Davis

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Marisano James Aug 17 - 19, 2011 (3 days)

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East Cabin (Lower Camp) 1 Aug 17 - 19, 2011