Department of Entomology

Research Interests:

Insect Ecology

Recent Publications:

Ode, P.J.  2006.  Plant chemistry and natural enemy fitness: effects on herbivore and natural enemy fitness.  Annual Review of Entomology 51:163-185. 

Ode, P.J., K.R. Hopper and M. Coll.  2005.  Oviposition vs. offspring fitness in Aphidius colemani parasitizing different aphid species.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 115:303-310. 

Hardy, I.C.W., P.J. Ode and M. Siva-Jothy.  2005.  Mating behaviour.  Pages 219-260 in: M. Jervis (Ed.) Insects as Natural Enemies: a Practical Perspective.  Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 

Hardy, I.C.W., P.J. Ode and M. Siva-Jothy.  2005.  Mating systems.  Pages 261-298 in: M. Jervis (Ed.) Insects as Natural Enemies: a Practical Perspective.  Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 

Ode, P.J., M.R. Berenbaum, A.R. Zangerl and I.C.W. Hardy.  2004.  Host plant, host plant chemistry and the polyembryonic parasitoid Copidosoma sosares: indirect effects in a tritrophic interaction.  Oikos 104: 388-400. 

Antolin, M.F., P.J. Ode, G.E. Heimpel, R.B. O’Hara and M.R. Strand.  2003.  Population structure, mating system, and sex-determining allele diversity of the parasitoid wasp Habrobracon hebetor.  Heredity 91: 373-381. 

Wu, Z., K.R. Hopper, P.J. Ode, R.W. Fuester, J. Chen and G.E. Heimpel.  2003.  Complementary sex determination in hymenopteran parasitoids and its implications for biological control.  Entomologia Sinica 10: 81-93. 

Ode, P.J. and K.M. Heinz.  2002.  Host-size dependent sex ratio theory and improving mass-reared parasitoid sex ratios.  Biological Control 24: 31-41. 

Ode, P.J. and S.W. Rissing.  2002.  Effects of resource abundance on sex allocation by queens and workers in the desert seed-harvesting ant, Messor pergandei. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 548-556. 

Ode, P.J.  and M.S. Hunter.  2002.  Sex ratios of parasitic Hymenoptera with unusual life histories.  Pages 218-234 in: I.C.W. Hardy (Ed.).  Sex ratio handbook.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 

Graduate Students:

Artem Abdukakharov, MS, Natural Resource Management. (co-advisor)
Derek Crompton, Ph.D., Environmental and Conservation Sciences.
Anne Mueller, Ph.D., Entomology.

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	Department of Entomology, 202 Hultz Hall   North Dakota State University, Fargo ND  Dr. David Rider, Interim Chair  Phone: 701-231-7582	updated 28 February, 2008