A. Symbioses (Phenomenology and Phylogeny)

   Invertebrate Endocytobiosis / Endosymbiosis

Chair: H. Breeuwer (Amsterdam) / K. Sander (Freiburg)

• Jouany, J.P. (St Genès Champanelle, France)
  Characteristics of the rumen ciliates and ruminant association

• Sander, K. (Freiburg, Germany)
  Embryological aspects of leafhopper endosymbiosis and their evolutionary implications: A review

• Bandi C., Grigolo A., Sacchi L. (Milano, Italy / Pavia, Italy)
  Phylogenetically distant endocytobionts in termites: Wolbachia and Blattabacterium

• Poinsot, D. and Merçot, H. (Paris, France)
  Wolbachia of the third kind

• Breeuwer, J.A.J. and Vala, F. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  Variation in Wolbachia host interactions in strains of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae

• Drews, M., Zissler, D., Sander, K. (Freiburg, Germany)
  Endosymbiont transmission in the ovary of the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens studied by transmission and scanning electron microscopy

• Balzer, I. (Göttingen, Germany)
  Symbiotic association between the plathelminth Convolutrilova longifissura and the alga Tetraselmis sp.

• Johnson, A.H. and Mattman, L.H. (Hampton, USA / Warren, USA)
  A study of cell wall-deficient forms in placentae
   

  Poster Presentation:

• Elsishans, C., Hölldobler, B., Stackebrandt, E., Gross, R. (Würzburg, Germany / Braunschweig, Germany)
  Characterization of intracellular endosymbiotic bacteria in the midgut of different Camponotus species