A second arm of my research program involves biodiversity
studies of insects. This has included work on ants, general
insect diversity, and more recently, native bees. In summer
2008 my lab began a survey of native bees in several natural
areas in southwest Michigan and plan to continue this work
into the future.
Grants and Awards
National Science Foundation RUI Collaborative
Grant #0522178; $175849; 7/05-6/08
"Chemosensory Basis of Host Selection by Ant-associated
Butterflies"
Selected Publications
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reprints]
(* denotes undergraduate coauthor)
Fass, M. and A. Fraser.
2009. Building Global Awareness through Biology, Public
Health and Study Abroad: How Science Study Can Prepare
Students for Study Abroad, and How Study Abroad Can Prepare
Scientists for Citizenship. In: E. Brewer and K. Cunningham
(eds), Integrating Study Abroad Into the Curriculum: Theory
and Practice across the Disciplines. Stylus Publishing.
Martelli, M.G*., M.M. Ward* and A.M.
Fraser. 2004. Ant diversity sampling on the southern
Cumberland Plateau: a comparison of litter sifting and
pitfall trapping. Southeastern Naturalist 3:113-126.
Fraser, A.M.,
W.L. Mechaber and J.G. Hildebrand. 2003. Electroantennographic
and behavioral responses of the sphinx moth Manduca
sexta to host plant headspace volatiles. Journal of
Chemical Ecology. 29:1813-1833.
Fraser, A.M., T. Tregenza, N. Wedell, M.A.
Elgar and N.E. Pierce. 2002. Oviposition tests of ant preference
in a myrmecophilous butterfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
15:861-870.
Fraser, A.M., A.H. Axen
and N.E. Pierce. 2001. Assessing the quality of different
ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly.
Oecologia 129:452-460.
Eastwood, R.
and A.M. Fraser. 1999. Associations between
lycaenid butterflies and ants in Australia. Australian
Journal of Ecology 24: 503-537.
Fraser, A.M. and T.B. Herman.
1993. Territorial and reproductive behaviour in a sympatric
species complex of the neotropical damselfly Cora
Selys (Zygoptera: Polythoridae). Odonatologica 22:411-429.
Recent Conference
Presentations - Oral (* denotes undergraduate
coauthor)
Fraser, A.M., A.P. Mutsaers*,
B. Bullard*, J.S. Beckett* and J.E. Hofferberth. 2008.
Butterfly olfactory responses to ant volatiles: potential
cues for host ant recognition in the obligately ant-associated
butterfly Jalmenus evagoras (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
25th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical
Ecology, State College, PA, Aug. 17-22, 2008.
Hofferberth, J.E., J.S. Beckett*, J.D. Beckett* and A.M.
Fraser. 2008. Synthesis and GC-EAD analysis of
semiochemicals putatively used by the obligate ant-associated
butterfly Jalmenus evagoras in host ant selection. 25th
Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical
Ecology, State College, PA, Aug. 17-22, 2008.
Recent Conference Presentations
- Poster (* denotes undergraduate coauthor)
Beckett, J.S.*, J.E. Hofferberth and A.M.
Fraser. 2008. Synthesis of terpene derived natural
products. 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, April 6-8, 2008.
Fraser, A.M., J.T. Waller*, W.R. Morrison
III*, A.C. Brayshaw*, D.A. Hyman* and M.R. Johnson*. Evaluation
of multiple arthropod taxa as indicators of ground-dwelling
invertebrate biological diversity within open meadows.
Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America,
San Diego, CA, Dec. 9-12, 2007.
Beckett, J.S.*, J.E. Hofferberth and A.M. Fraser.
2007. Concise synthesis of natural products iridodial
and actinidine. 233rd American Chemical Society National
Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-26, 2007.
Professional Service
Editorial board , Annals of the Entomological
Society of America (Dec 2005-present)
