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Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
Room D6, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB4. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiverstiy |
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| Moderator(s): | Ashley P. G. Dowling
Geoffrey Morse
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| 8:30 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:35 AM | | 0528 | | Dear Enemy Phenomenon in two invasive ant species, the Argentine ant and the giant needle ant
Eleanor Spicer, Jules Silverman |
| 8:47 AM |  | 0529 | | Reproductive soldiers of Zootermopsis nevadensis (Isoptera: Termopsidae): Morphology, development, behavior, and evolution
Susan Johnson, Barbara L Thorne, Nancy L Breisch |
| 8:59 AM | | 0530 | | Consequences of a cryptic invasive ant (Pachycondyla chinensis): Local extinctions mediated by behavior?
Benoit Guenard, Robert R Dunn, Jules Silverman |
| 9:11 AM | | 0531 | | The effect of termite soldier number on Pachycondyla chinensis predation
David M. Bednar, Jules Silverman |
| 9:23 AM | | 0532 | | Colonization potential of caddisflies (Trichoptera) in an urban headwater stream
Robert F. Smith, William O. Lamp |
| 9:35 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:47 AM | | 0533 | | The distribution of intestinal gregarine parasites (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida) in dragonflies of central Texas, USA
Jason L. Locklin, Darrell S. Vodopich |
| 9:59 AM | | 0534 | | Trailing behavior of Caribbean crazy ants (Paratrechina pubens) and big-headed ants (Pheidole megacephala)
Ricardo Vazquez, Phil Koehler, Roberto Pereira |
| 10:11 AM | | 0535 | | The inheritance of song and preference in hybrids between Chrysoperla carnea and C. agilis green lacewings
Suegene Noh |
| 10:23 AM | | 0536 | | Measuring the silk footprint of embiids (Embioptera): Does one size fit all?
Whitney Evans Knott, Janice Edgerly-Rooks |
| 10:35 AM | | 0537 | | Temporal dynamics of acoustical signatures associated with alternative managment and natural ecosystems
Marisol A. Quintanilla Tornel, Stuart Gage, George W. Bird |
