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Micky Eubanks

TITLE: Associate Professor

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.	Entomology	University of Maryland
M.S.	Biology	University of Mississippi
B.S.	Biology	University of Mississippi

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Community Ecology, Plant-Herbivore Interactions, Mutualisms, Invasive Species

SPECIALIZATION:

Insect Community Ecology and Arthropod-Host Plant Interactions

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Insect Ecology, Instructor, Fall Semesters, Auburn University

General Entomology, Laboratory Instructor/Guest Lecturer, Fall Semesters, Auburn University

Community Ecology, Guest Lecturer, Spring Semesters, Auburn University

Statistical Methods in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Special Topic Seminar, Auburn University

Special Topics in Insect Ecology, Every Semester, Auburn University (e.g., Ecological consequences of mutualisms, Fall 2004)

Community Ecology, Instructor, Spring 1998, Bucknell University

PUBLICATIONS:

Peer-Reviewed Publications and Book Chapters
(* indicates graduate student, ** indicates undergraduate student) (2005 Journal Impact Factor (IF) and Number of Citations as of October 2006 are provided for each Journal Article)

*Burkett-Cadena, N.D., M.D. Eubanks, and T.R. Unnasch. In review. Size matters: Preference of female mosquitoes for natural and artificial resting sites. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association.

*Tindle, J.D., D.E. Carr, and M.D. Eubanks. In review. Herbivory by the spittlebug Clastopter xanthocephala (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) increases inbreeding depression in Mimulus guttatus (Phyrmaceae). American Midland Naturalist.

*Strysky, J.D. and M.D. Eubanks.  In review. Effects of ant-aphid mutualisms on plant fitness.  Ecology

*Cooper, L.B., J.F. Murphy, and M.D. Eubanks. In press. Red imported fire ants may disrupt biological control in tomato. Florida Entomologist. (scheduled for September publication)

*Styrsky, J.D. and M.D. Eubanks. 2007.  The ecological consequences of interactions between ants and honey-dew producing insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 274:151-164.

Eubanks, M.D. and *J.D. Styrsky. 2006. Ant-Hemipteran mutualisms: keystone interactions that alter food web dynamics and influence plant fitness. Pages 171-190 in, Trophic and Guild Interactions in Biological Control, Progress in Biological Control Series. Jacques Brodeur and Guy Boivin, Editors. Springer Publishing.

*Aubuchon, M.D., G.R. Mullen, and M.D. Eubanks. 2006. Efficacy of broadcast and perimeter applications of S-methoprene bait on the red imported fire ant in grazed pastures. Journal of Economic Entomology 99(3):621-625.

*Jhee, E.M., R.S. Boyd, and M.D. Eubanks. 2006. Effectiveness of metal-metal and metal-organic compound combinations against Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae): implications for plant elemental defense. Journal of Chemical Ecology 32(2):239-259.

*Styrsky, J.D., *I. Kaplan, and M.D. Eubanks. 2006. Plant trichomes indirectly enhance tritrophic interactions involving a generalist predator, the red imported fire ant. Biological Control 36:375-384.

*Jhee, E.M., R.S. Boyd, M.D. Eubanks, and M.A. Davis. 2006. Nickel hyperaccumulation by Streptanthes polygaloides (Brassicaceae) protects against Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae). Plant Ecology 183(1):91-104.

Carr, D.E., J.F. Murphy, and M.D. Eubanks. 2006. Genetic variation and covariation for resistance and tolerance to Cucumber mosaic virus in Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae).  Heredity 96(1):29-38.

*Hull-Sanders, H.M., D.E. Carr, and M.D. Eubanks. 2005. Inbreeding depression and selfing rate of Ipomoea hederacea var. integriuscula (Convolvulaceae). American Journal of Botany 92(11):1871-1877.

Head, G., W. Moar, M. Eubanks, B. Freeman, J. Ruberson, A. Hagerty, and S. Turnipseed. 2005. A multiyear, large-scale comparison of arthropod populations on commercially managed Bt and non-Bt cotton fields. Environmental Entomology 34(5):1257-1266.

*Jhee, E.M., R.S. Boyd, and M.D. Eubanks. 2005. Nickel hyperaccumulation as an elemental defense of Streptanthus polygaloides (Brassicaceae): Influence of herbivore feeding mode. New Phytologist 168:331-344.

*Dingha, B.N., A.G. Appel and M.D. Eubanks.  2005.  Discontinuous carbon dioxide release in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae), and its effect on respiratory transpiration. Journal of Insect Physiology 51:825-836.

**Coleman, C.M., R.S. Boyd, and M.D. Eubanks. 2005. Extending the elemental defense hypothesis: dietary metal concentrations below hyperaccumulator levels could harm herbivores.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 31(8):1669-1681.

Eubanks, M.D., D.E. Carr, and J.F. Murphy.  2005.  The effects of virus infection of monkeyflowers on host plant quality for meadow spittlebugs, Philaenus spumarius (Homoptera: Cercopidae).  Environmental Entomology 34(4):891-898.

*Kaplan, I. and M.D. Eubanks. 2005.  Aphids alter the community-wide impact of fire ants.  Ecology 86(6): 1640-1649.

*Hull-Sanders, H.M. and M.D. Eubanks.  2005.  Plant defense theory provides insight into interactions involving inbred plants and insect herbivores.  Ecology 86(4):897-904.

*Harvey, C.T. and M.D. Eubanks. 2005.  Intraguild predation of parasitoids by Solenopsis invicta: a non-disruptive interaction.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 114:127-135.

Eubanks, M.D.  2005.  Predaceous herbivores and herbivorous predators: The biology of omnivores and the ecology of omnivore – prey interactions.  Pages 3-17, in Ecology of Predator – Prey Interactions.  Pedro Barbosa and Ignacio Castellanos, Eds.  Oxford University Press. 

Eubanks, M.D. and *J.D. Styrsky. 2005. Effects of plant feeding on the performance of omnivorous ‘predators’.  Pages 148-177, in Plant-Provided Food and Herbivore-Carnivore Interactions. Felix Wäckers, Paul van Rijn & Jan Bruin, Eds. Cambridge University Press.

Eubanks, M.D., D.E. Carr, and J.F. Murphy. 2005. Defense against multiple enemies: Genetic variation in the response of plants to herbivore and virus attack.  Evolutionary Ecology 19(1):15-27.

Ivey, C.T., D.E. Carr and M.D. Eubanks. 2004. Inbreeding alters Mimulus guttatus tolerance to herbivory in natural environments.  Ecology 85(2):567-574.

*Harvey, C.T. and M.D. Eubanks. 2004. Effect of habitat complexity on biological control by the red imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in collards. Biological Control 29:348-358.

Abrahamson, W.G., C.P. Blair, M.D. Eubanks, and S.A. Morehead. 2003. Sequential radiation of unrelated organisms: the gall fly Eurosta solidaginis and the tumbling flower beetle Mordellistena convicta. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16:781-789.

*Hull-Sanders, H.M., A.G. Appel, and M.D. Eubanks. 2003. Comparative water relations of adult and juvenile tortoise beetles: Differences among sympatric species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 135(4):625-634.

Eubanks, M.D., *J.D. Styrsky, and R.F. Denno. 2003. The evolution of omnivory in Heteropteran insects. Ecology 84(10):2549-2556.

Eubanks, M.D., *C.P. Blair, and W.G. Abrahamson. 2003. One host shift leads to another? Evidence of host-race formation in a predaceous gall-boring beetle. Evolution 57:168-172.

Carr, D.E., J.F. Murphy, and M.D. Eubanks. 2003. The susceptibility and response of inbred and outbred Mimulus guttatus to infection by Cucumber mosaic virus. Evolutionary Ecology 17:85-103.