Resources

The AABP ATRIUM of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas

The Cucurbit Network

Missouri Botanical Garden

Michael Nee at the New York Botanical Garden

Susan Swensen at Ithaca College

Amanda Neill at the New York Botanical Garden

Roxi Steele at the University of Texas

Larry Gilbert at the University of Texas

Smithsonian Institution

Flies & Plants

General research site

Botany

Entomology

TROPICAL SITES & EDUCATION LINKS

Global SchoolNet

Global SchoolNet Foundation

Founders

Yvonne Andres of Global SchoolNet

Costa Rica

Rara Avis Nature Reserve

INBio (National Institute of Biodiversity)

Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)

Ecuador

Jatun Sacha Biological Station

Bilsa Biological Station

MOBOT (Missouri Botanical Gardens) site highliting Jatun Sacha and Bilsa

David Neill at MOBOT

Peru

Explorer's Inn in Tambopata National Reserve

Chris Kirkby Conservation Research

Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru

Eric Cosio Department of Chemistry, PUCP

Frank Stermitz, Colorado State University Chemistry Department

Natural History Museum, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Gerardo Lamas (additional Link for Geraldo Lamas)

Amazon Conservation Association (funding)

French Guiana

Herbier de Guyane (CAY)

Bolivia

Esther Perez: La Coleccion Boliviana de Fauna

S. Rosario Apaza Vera: La Coleccion Boliviana de Fauna

Julieta Ledezma, entomologist, Noel Kempff Museum

Micheal Nee at the New York Botanical Garden

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Condon, M. 1984. Reproductive biology, demography, and natural history of neotropical vines Gurania and Psiguria (Guraniinae, Cucurbitaceae): a study of the adaptive significance of sex change. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.

Condon, M. 1994. Tom Sawyer meets insects: how biodiversity opens science to the public. Biodiversity Letters2: 159-162.

Condon, M. 1995. Biodiversity, systematics, and Tom Sawyer Science. Conservation Biology 9:711-714.

Condon, M. & L.E. Gilbert. 1988. Sex expression of Gurania and Psiguria (Cucurbitaceae): neotropical vines that change sex. American Journal of Botany 75: 875-884

Condon. M. & L.E. Gilbert. 1990. Reproductive biology and natural history of the neotropical vines Gurania and Psiguria. In D. Bates, R. Robinson, C. Jeffrey (editors): Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. Cornell University Press. Ithica. Pp 150-166.

Condon, M. & A. Norrbom. 1994. Three sympatric species of Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae) on a single species of host (Gurania spinulosa, Cucurbitaceae): new species and new taxonomic methods. Systematic Entomology 19: 279-304.

Condon. M.A. and A.L. Norrbom. 1999. Behavior of flies in the genus Blepharoneura (Blepharoneurinae). In: M. Aluja and A.L. Norrobom (eds.), Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): phylogeny and evolution of behavior, pp. 135-156. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Condon, M.A. and G.J. Steck. 1997. Evolution of host use in Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae): Multiple cryptic species on sexually dimorphic host plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 60: 443-466.

Condon, M.A. Truelove, and L. Mathew. 1997. Sexual dimorphism in mouthparts of Blepharoneura Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99: 676-680.