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 0538Higher-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 0539Population genetic structure of a native fruit pest, the plum curculio beetle (Conotrachelus nenuphar)
Samuel N Crane
8:59 AM 0540On the longhorned beetles of the world: A phylogeny based on molecular data
Eugenio H. Nearns, Kelly B. Miller, Ian P. Swift
9:11 AM 0541The 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 0542AFLP, 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 0543mtDNA barcoding for taxonomic identification within the genus Agrilus
John Shukle, Jeffrey D. Holland
9:47 AM Break
9:59 AM 0544Assessing the effects of primer specificity on eliminating numt contamination in DNA barcoding
Matthew J. Moulton, Hojun Song, Michael F. Whiting
10:23 AM 0546Phylogeography, evolution and cryptic diversity of pine-feeding Chionaspis (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) across North America
Rodger Gwiazdowski, Benjamin B. Normark
10:35 AM 0547Molecular 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 0548Phylogenetic investigation of mimicry complexes in Dasymutilla (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)
Kevin A. Williams, James P. Pitts
10:59 AM 0549A 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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