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Dissertation & Thesis:

• Hoback, W. W.  1999.  Ecophysiology of habitat use and competition in an assemblage of salt marsh tiger beetle species (Cicindela togata, Cicindela circumpicta).  Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.  239 pp.
• Hoback, W. W.  1995.  Hypoxia-limited survival, respiration, and mate-guarding behavior in the amphipod Gammarus pseudolimnaeus Bousfield.  M. S. Thesis, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield.  95 pp.
  

Publications:

• Wieck, B. J., Akahane, S., Abe, M., Middleton, W., Hoback, W. W., & Shaffer, J. J.  2009.  Temperature and food availability differentially affect the production of antimicrobial compounds in oral secretions produced by two species of burying beetle.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 35(8):871-877.
• Brust, M. L., W. W. Hoback, & R. J. Wright.  2008.  A review of the genus Chortophaga (Orthoptera: Acrididae) among Nebraska populations:  questioning the validity of Chortophaga australior Rehn and Hebard.  Journal of Orthoptera Research 17:101-105.
  
• Brust, M. L., W. W. Hoback, & R. J. Wright.  2007.  Immersion tolerance in rangeland grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae).  Journal of Orthoptera Research 16:135-138.
• Brust, M. L., W. W. Hoback, K. Farnsworth, & C. B. Knisley.  2006.   Movement of Cicindela hirticollis Say larvae in response to moisture and flooding.  Journal of Insect Behavior 19(2):251–263.
  
• Brust, M. L., W. W. Hoback, K. Farnsworth, & C. B. Knisley.  2005. Differential immersion survival by populations of Cicindela hirticollis (Doleoptera:  Cicindelidae).  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98(6):973-979.
  
• Hoback, W. W., A. A. Bishop, J. Kroemer, J. M. Scalzitti, & J. J. Shaffer.  2004.  Differences among anti-microbial properties of carrion beetle (Coleoptera:Silphidae) secretions reflect phylogeny and ecology.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 30(4):719-729.
• Bishop, A. A., W. W. Hoback, M. Albrecht, & K. M. Skinner.  2002.  A comparison of an ecological model and GIS spatial analysis to fescribe niche partitioning amongst carrion beetles in Nebraska.  Transactions in GIS 6(4):457-470.
  
• Hoback, W. W., T. L. Clark, L. J. Meinke, L. G. Higley, & J. M. Scalzitti.  2002.  Immersion survival differs among three Diabrotica species.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 105(1):29-34.
• Hoback, W. W., & D. W. Stanley.  2001.  Insects in hypoxia.   Journal of Insect Physiology 47(6):533-542.
• Hoback, W. W., L. G. Higley, & D. W. Stanley.  2001. Tigers eating tigers:  evidence of intraguild predation operating in an assemblage of tiger beetles.  Ecological Entomology 26(4):367-375.
  
• Hoback, W. W., & L. G. Higley.  2000.  Insect predation, prey defense, and community structure.  1999 ABLE Workshop/Conference Proceedings: Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching 21:293-304.
  
• Hoback, W. W., J. E. Podrabsky, L. G. Higley, D. W. Stanley, & S. C. Hand.  2000.  Anoxia tolerance of con-familial tiger beetle larvae is associated with differences in energy flow and anaerobiosis.  Journal of Comparative Physiology B 170(4):307-314.
  
• Hoback, W. W., R. L. Rana, & D. W. Stanley.  2000. Differential fatty acid utilization during starvation by larvae and adults of the tiger beetle, Cicindela togata from a Nebraska salt marsh.  Great Plains Research 10(1):127-144.
  
• Hoback, W. W., D. A. Golick, T. M. Svatos, S. M. Spomer, & L. G. Higley.  2000.  Salinity and shade preferences result in ovipositional differences between sympatric tiger beetle species.  Ecological Entomology 25:180-187.
  
• Hoback, W. W., R. L. Rana, & D. W. Stanley.  1999. Fatty acid composition of phospholipids and triacylglycerols of selected tissues, and fatty acid biosynthesis in adult periodical cicadas, Magicicada septendecim.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
  
  122(3):355-362.
• Hoback, W. W., T. M. Svatos, S. M. Spomer, & L. G. Higley.  1999.  Trap color and placement affects estimates of insect family-level abundance and diversity in a Nebraska salt marsh.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 91(3):393-402.
• Stanley, D. W., W. W. Hoback, J. C. Bedick, H. Tunaz, R. L. Rana, A. R. Nor Aliza, & J. S. Miller.  1999.  Eicosanoids mediate nodulation reactions to bacterial infections in larvae of the butterfly, Colias eurytheme.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
  123(3):217-223.
• Wagner, W. E., Jr., & W. W. Hoback.  1999.  Nutritional effects on male calling behaviour in the variable field cricket.  Animal Behaviour 57:89-95.
  
• Bedick, J. C., B. C. Ratcliffe, W. W. Hoback, & L. G. Higley.  1999.  Distribution, ecology, and population dynamics of the American burying beetle [Nicrophorus americanus Olivier (Coleoptera, Silphidae)] in south-central Nebraska/USA.  Journal of Insect Conservation 3:171-181.
  
• Hunt, T. E., F. J. Haile, W. W. Hoback, & L. G. Higley.  1999.  Indirect measurement of insect defoliation.  Environmental Entomology 28(6):1136-1139.
  
• Ellis, M. D., L. G. Higley, A. Jones, W. W. Hoback, & S. S. Quisenberry.  1999.  Bug bash- a pyramid of teaching and learning about insects.  American Entomologist 45:200-205.
  
• Tunaz, H., J. C. Bedick, J. S. Miller, W. W. Hoback, R. L. Rana, & D. W. Stanley.  1999.  Eicosanoids mediate nodulation reactions to bacterial infections in adults of two 17-year periodical cicadas, Magicicada septendecim and M. cassini.  Journal of Insect Physiology
  45(10):923-931.
• Hoback, W. W., L. G. Higley, D. W. Stanley, & M. C. Barnhart.  1998.  Survival of immersion and anoxia by larval tiger beetles, Cicindela togata.American Midland Naturalist 140: 27-33.
• Spomer, S. M., & W. W. Hoback.  1998.  New ant associations for Glaucopsyche lygdamus Doubleday (Lycaenidae).  Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society 52:216-217.

Reviews:

• Hoback, W. W.   2002.  Review of “Tiger Beetles:  the Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity of the Cicindelids by David L. Pearson and Alfried P. Vogler  Quarterly Review of Biology 77:335.

Sites of Interest:

Nebraska EntWeb (UNL)

Tiger Beetles of Nebraska

Marine Insects

Insect Family Tree

Last Update:  24 January 2010

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