Contributors ................................................. viii
Acknowledgments .............................................. xiii
CYCAD 2008 Organizing Committee and Assistants ................. xv
In Memoriam: Ken D. Hill ...................................... xvi
Chapter 1: Introduction ......................................... 1
Alberto Sidney Taylor Blake
Conservation
Chapter 2: International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN)/Species Survival Commission (SSC) Cycad Specialist
Group Ex Situ Conservation and Recovery Programme (CSG-ECRP) .... 9
Anders J. Lindstrom
Chapter 3: Cycad Aulacaspis Scale Invades the Mariana Islands .. 20
Thomas E. Marler
Chapter 4: SERBO and the Cycads of Oaxaca, Mexico .............. 36
Silvia H. Salas-Morales and Jeffrey Chemnick
Ecology
Chapter 5: How Critical Are the Early Life-cycle Stages in
the Population Ecology of Cycads? A Case Study with Dioon
merolae in Southeastern Mexico ................................. 40
Juan C. Flores-Vázquez, Teresa Valverde, and José L.
Lucas-González
Chapter 6: Time, Place, and Relationships: Cycad Phenology
in a Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Context .................... 59
M. Patrick Griffith, Michael A. Calonje, Dennis Wm.
Stevenson, Chad E. Husby, and Damon P. Little
Chapter 7: Sinkhole and Karst Habitat of Ceratozamia
latifolia and Related Mexican Cycads ........................... 82
Geoffrey Hoese
Chapter 8: Germinaciуn de Semillas de Dioon merolae, una
Cicada de Oaxaca, Mexico, Bajo Diferentes Tratamientos de
Riego .......................................................... 93
José L. Lucas-González y Juan C. Flores-Vázquez
Chapter 9: Pollination Systems of Island Cycads: Predictions
Based on Island Biogeography .................................. 102
Irene Terry, William Tang, and Thomas Е. Marler
Ethnobotany
Chapter 10: Cycads and Human Life Cycles: Outline of
a Symbology ................................................... 133
Mark Bonta
Chapter 11: The Ethnobotany of Cycas in the States of Assam
and Meghalaya, India .......................................... 151
Khuraijam Jibankumar Singh and Rita Singh
Chapter 12: Notes on the Ethnobotany of Panamanian Cycads ..... 165
Alberto S. Taylor Blake
Chapter 13: Harvest, Use, and Ecology of Cycas circinalis
L. - A Case Study in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Area,
Western Ghats, India
Antta Varghese, Vandana Krishnamurthy, and Tamara Ticktin
Genomics, Physiology, and Structure
Chapter 14: Some Aspects of the Foliar Anatomy of Two Zamia
Species from Costa Rica: Z. fairchildiana L.D. Gomez and Z.
neurophyllidia D.W. Stev ...................................... 192
Rafael Acuña-Castillo and Walter A. Marín-Méndez
Chapter 15: Population Genetics of Zamia in Puerto Rico,
a Study with Ten SSR Loci ..................................... 204
Alan W Meerow, Javier Francisco-Ortega, Tomás Ayala-
Silva, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, and Kyoko Nakamura
Chapter 16: Population Genetic Diversity in the Dioon edule
Lindl. Species Complex (Zamiaceae, Cycadales): Evidence from
Microsatellite Data ........................................... 224
Jeremy Moynihan, Andrew P. Vovides J. González-Astorga, and
Javier Francisco-Ortega
Chapter 17: Starch Accumulation in the Megagametophyte of
Ceratozamia mexicana Brongn. and Zamia furfuracea L.f. ........ 251
Maria Ydelia Sánchez-Tinoco, José Rubén Ordóñez-Balderas,
and E. Mark Engleman
Chapter 18: The Effect of Taproot Pruning and AMF Mycorrhiza
on Growth and Development of Dioon angustifolium Miq.
Seedlings ..................................................... 263
Andrew P. Vovides, Carlos Iglesias, Melquiades Cruz
Julieta Hernández Reyes, Laura Hernández Cuevas, and
Sonia Galicia Castellanos
Neurobiology
Chapter 19: Cycad-induced Neurodegeneration Is Different
in Rat and Mouse Models of ALS-PDC ............................ 279
P. Yarowsky, Kimberly A. McDowell,Wei-Bin Shen,
J.M.B. Wilson, R. Cruz-Aguado, Thomas E. Marler, and
C.A. Shaw
Reproductive Biology
Chapter 20: Entomofauna Asociada a Dioon sp. nov. y
Actividad de los Insectos Polinizadores en San Jerуnimo
Taviche, Oaxaca, Mexico ....................................... 295
M.F. Maldonado-Ruiz y Juan C. Flores-Vázquez
Chapter 21: Comparison of Experimental Measurements and
Predictions from Biophysical Models of Thermogenic Events
in Cones of Macrozamia lucida, M. macleayi, and Cycas
microneska .................................................... 302
Robert Roemer, Irene Terry, Gimme Walter, and Thomas
E. Marler
Chapter 22: Role of Cycad Cone Volatile Emissions and
Thermogenesis in the Pollination of Encephalartos villosus
Lem.: Preliminary Findings from Studies of Plant Traits and
Insect Responses .............................................. 318
Terence N. Suinyuy, John S. Donaldson, Steven D. Johnson,
and J. DeWet Bösenberg
Chapter 23: Distribution and Evolutionary Patterns of the
Cycad Weevil Genus Rhopalotria (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea:
Belidae) with Emphasis on the Fauna of Panama ................. 335
William Tang and Charles W. O'Brien
Chapter 24: An Overview of Cycad Pollination Studies .......... 352
Irene Terry, William Tang, Alberto S.Taylor Blake,
John S. Donaldson, Rita Singh, Andrew P. Vovides, and
Angelica Cibrian Jaramillo
Chapter 25: Volatile Emissions, Thermogenesis, and
Dehiscence Patterns of Macrozamia communis (Zamiaceae):
Implications for Cycad Pollination Research ................... 395
Thomas C. Wallenius, Rod Peakall, Wolf J. Wanjura, Sylwek
Chyb, and Rolf G. Oberprieler
Systematics
Chapter 26: Zamia lindleyi. A Misunderstood Species from the
Highlands of Western Panama ................................... 419
Michael A. Calonje, Alberto S. Taylor Blake, Dennis
Wm. Stevenson, Gregory Holzman, and Yan Arley Ramos
Chapter 27: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Three Species
of Mexican Cycads ............................................. 438
Julieta Hernández Reyes, Andrew P. Vovides, Yaqueline
A. Gheno-Heredia, and Laura Hernandez Cuevas
Chapter 28: A Phylogenetic Study of Dioon Lindl. (Zamiaceae,
Cycadales), Based on Morphology, Nuclear Ribosomal DNA,
a Low-copy Nuclear Gene, and Plastid RFLPs .................... 448
Jeremy Moynihan, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, Carl E. Lewis,
Andrew P. Vovides, Paolo Caputo, and Javier Francisco-
Ortega
Chapter 29: The World List of Cycads .......................... 480
Roy Osborne, Michael A. Calonje, Ken D. Hill, Leonie
Stanberg, and Dennis Wm. Stevenson
Chapter 30: Cone Size in the Florida Cycad, Zamia
integrifolia: Trade-off between Seed Size and Seed Number ..... 509
William Tang
Chapter 31: The Zamia skinneri (Cycadales: Zamiaceae)
Complex in Panama ............................................. 518
Alberto S. Taylor Blake, Jody L. Haynes, and Gregory
Holzman
Scientific Name Index ......................................... 531
Subject Index ................................................. 536
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