Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room D8, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB2. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Moderator(s): Andy Deans
Daniel Z Rubinoff
8:30 AM Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM0503Testing host associated differentiation on two parthenogenetic parasitoid species in a native forest system
Mauro Simonato, Raul F Medina, Andrea Battisti
8:47 AM 0504Host specificity: The answer to the temperate parasitoid diversity anomaly
Kacie Johansen, Michael J Sharkey
8:59 AM0505Host associated differentiation in indigenous tree species
Aaron M Dickey, Raul F Medina
9:11 AM0506Symbiont-mediated immunocomptence in the dampwood termite (Zootermopsis angusticollis)
Kelley F Schultheis, Mark S Bulmer, Rebeca Rosengaus
9:23 AM0507Fungal pressures within and surrounding nests of the arboreal termite species Nasutitermes acajutlae
Marielle A. Postava-Davignon, Claire A. Fuller, John W. Stiller, Erica A. Waddle, Rebeca B. Rosengaus
9:35 AM 0508Genetic approaches enhance our understanding of the consumption of insects by forest-dwelling bats
Luke E. Dodd, Lynne K. Rieske-Kinney, Michael J. Lacki
9:47 AM Break
9:59 AM 0509Love thy neighbor: Composition of whirligig beetle aggregations in the East Texas Big Thicket (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae)
Edward Realzola, Jerry L. Cook
10:11 AM0510Nutritional conditionality of an ant-lycaenid interaction
Matthew D. Trager
10:23 AM0511Genetic evidence for host race formation in the leafmining fly, Phytomyza glabricola (Diptera: Agromyzidae)
Julie Byrd Hébert, Sonja J. Scheffer, David J Hawthorne
10:35 AM0512Cospeciation in parasitic quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) and their bird hosts
Sarah A. Hendricks, Greg S. Spicer
10:47 AM0513Host-associated hybrid behavior: A novel aspect of postmating isolation in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles
Scott P. Egan, Daniel J. Funk

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