Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||||
Room A2, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) | |||||
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB5. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiverstiy | |||||
| Moderator(s): | Michael F. Whiting Cheryl Barr | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Introductory Remarks | ||||
| 8:35 AM | 0538 | Higher-level phylogeny of Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) based on larval and pupal morphology: Importance of immatures in interpreting evolution in a mycophagous beetle family Floyd W. Shockley, Joseph V. McHugh | |||
| 8:47 AM | 0539 | Population genetic structure of a native fruit pest, the plum curculio beetle (Conotrachelus nenuphar) Samuel N Crane | |||
| 8:59 AM | 0540 | On the longhorned beetles of the world: A phylogeny based on molecular data Eugenio H. Nearns, Kelly B. Miller, Ian P. Swift | |||
| 9:11 AM | 0541 | The effects of Quarternary ice ages on the historical demography of a North American species group of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) Daniel P. Duran, Daniel J Funk | |||
| 9:23 AM | 0542 | AFLP, mtDNA, and microsatellite analysis of emerald ash borer populations from Asia and North America Alicia M. Bray, Leah S. Bauer, Robert A. Haack, Therese M. Poland, James J. Smith | |||
| 9:35 AM | 0543 | mtDNA barcoding for taxonomic identification within the genus Agrilus John Shukle, Jeffrey D. Holland | |||
| 9:47 AM | Break | ||||
| 9:59 AM | 0544 | Assessing the effects of primer specificity on eliminating numt contamination in DNA barcoding Matthew J. Moulton, Hojun Song, Michael F. Whiting | |||
| 10:23 AM | 0546 | Phylogeography, evolution and cryptic diversity of pine-feeding Chionaspis (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) across North America Rodger Gwiazdowski, Benjamin B. Normark | |||
| 10:35 AM | 0547 | Molecular phylogeny of the Gracillarioidea: Preliminary evidence from eight genes Akito Y. Kawahara, Jerome C. Regier, Donald R. Davis, Atsushi Kawakita, Charles Mitter, Issei Ohshima, Jurate De Prins, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, David L. Wagner | |||
| 10:47 AM | 0548 | Phylogenetic investigation of mimicry complexes in Dasymutilla (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) Kevin A. Williams, James P. Pitts | |||
| 10:59 AM | 0549 | A tale of two species: Parthenogenetic and sexual populations of the genus Haploembia Verhoeff found in California Alicia M Hodson, Kelly B. Miller | |||
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