Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Room A5, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Ten-Minute Papers, Section SEB3 Ten-Minute Papers, Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity

Moderator(s): Michael Caterino
Jason Mottern
1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM 0902Beetles in bamboo forests: Diversity patterns in a heterogeneous landscape of southwestern Amazonia
Jennifer Marie Jacobs, Edward Connor, David H. Kavanaugh
1:47 PM0903The Leaf-Litter Arthropods of Mesoamerica (LLAMA) Project: Results for Chiapas, Mexico
John T. Longino, Jorge Leon-Cortez, Robert S Anderson
1:59 PM0904Beetle diversity of California's Channel Islands
Michael Caterino, Stylianos Chatzimanolis
2:11 PM0905Using Semantic Web technologies to tie together disparate data about species
Peter J. DeVries, Daniel K. Young, Kenneth Raffa, Lyric Bartholomay
2:23 PM 0906Identification of Scirtothrips dorsalis by using SYBR green-based real-time PCR
Roxanne E. Garza Farris, Juan D. Vasquez, Rosita DeLeon, Lisa A. Ledezma
2:35 PM0907Phylogeography of Lamprocorpus (Insecta: Phthiraptera) chewing lice from Tinamous (Aves: Tinamidae) found on Andean sky islands
Jason D. Weckstein, Thomas Valqui
2:47 PM0908Evolution of cave-living in Hawaiian Schrankia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Matthew J Medeiros, Don Davis, Francis G. Howarth, Rosemary Gillespie
2:59 PM 0909Evolutionary radiation of the gall midge genus Asteromyia (Cecidomyiidae): Astereae, Ascomycetes, and enemies
John O. Stireman, Hilary Devlin
3:11 PM 0910Have symbiotic bacteria facilitated the evolution of herbivory in ants?
Jacob A. Russell, Corrie Saux Moreau, Benjamin Goldman-Huertas, Mikiko Fujiwara, David J. Lohman, Naomi E. Pierce
3:23 PM Break
3:35 PM0911Genetic structure of selected populations of the Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) species complex using AFLP analysis
Andrea L. Joyce, S. B. Vinson, R. F. Medina, Fritz Schulthess
3:47 PM0912Fast and slow bootstrap and the phylogeny of Hymenoptera
John Heraty, James Munro
3:59 PM 0913Gene trees within species trees: Is it really just a maze?
Maxi Polihronakis
4:11 PM0914Reproductive barriers on the beach: Speciation in the genus Aegialites Mannerheim (Coleoptera: Salpingidae)
Vladimir Gusarov
4:23 PM0915On the evolution of cannibalism in insects: Some insights from a comparative study of flour beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
J. P. Michaud, Taofic Alabi, Ludovic Arnaud, Eric Haubruge
4:35 PM0916The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Federal, Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) and its role in scientific peer-review of risks posed by pesticides
Sharlene R. Matten
4:47 PM0917Do canal-cutting behaviors facilitate host-range expansion by insect herbivores?
David E. Dussourd
4:59 PM Concluding Remarks

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