MICKY D. EUBANKS

Associate Professor
Entomology

Department of Entomology
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2475
College Station, TX 77843-2475
Office: 115 Biological Control Facility (map)
Phone: 979.862.7847
Fax: 979.845.6095
E-mail: m-eubanks@tamu.edu
Department Web page

Interests: Community ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, mutualisms, and invasive species

Selected Publications:
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.