2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: SEB3 Ten-Minute Papers, Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity

Beetles in bamboo forests: Diversity patterns in a heterogeneous landscape of southwestern Amazonia
Jennifer Marie Jacobs, San Francisco State University/California Academy of Sciences; Edward Connor, San Francisco State University; David H. Kavanaugh, California Academy of Sciences

0903

The Leaf-Litter Arthropods of Mesoamerica (LLAMA) Project: Results for Chiapas, Mexico
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College; Jorge Leon-Cortez, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; Robert S Anderson, Canadian Museum of Nature

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0904

Beetle diversity of California's Channel Islands
Michael Caterino, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Stylianos Chatzimanolis, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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0905

Using Semantic Web technologies to tie together disparate data about species
Peter J. DeVries, University of Wisconsin Madison; Daniel K. Young, University of Wisconsin; Kenneth Raffa, University of Wisconsin; Lyric Bartholomay, Iowa State University

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0906

Identification of Scirtothrips dorsalis by using SYBR green-based real-time PCR
Roxanne E. Garza Farris, USDA-APHIS Center for Plant Health Science and Technology; Juan D. Vasquez, USDA-APHIS Center for Plant Health Science and Technology; Rosita DeLeon, USDA-APHIS Center for Plant Health Science and Technology; Lisa A. Ledezma, USDA-APHIS Center for Plant Health Science and Technology

0907

Phylogeography of Lamprocorpus (Insecta: Phthiraptera) chewing lice from Tinamous (Aves: Tinamidae) found on Andean sky islands
Jason D. Weckstein, Field Museum of Natural History; Thomas Valqui, Louisiana State University

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0908

Evolution of cave-living in Hawaiian Schrankia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Matthew J Medeiros, University of California, Berkeley; Don Davis, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian; Francis G. Howarth, Bishop Museum; Rosemary Gillespie, University of California - Berkeley

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0909

Evolutionary radiation of the gall midge genus Asteromyia (Cecidomyiidae): Astereae, Ascomycetes, and enemies
John O. Stireman, Wright State University; Hilary Devlin, Wright State University

0910

Have symbiotic bacteria facilitated the evolution of herbivory in ants?
Jacob A. Russell, Drexel University; Corrie Saux Moreau, University of California Berkeley; Benjamin Goldman-Huertas, Harvard University; Mikiko Fujiwara, Harvard University; David J. Lohman, National University of Singapore; Naomi E. Pierce, Harvard University

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0911

Genetic structure of selected populations of the Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) species complex using AFLP analysis
Andrea L. Joyce, Texas A&M University; S. B. Vinson, Texas A&M University; R. F. Medina, Texas A&M University; Fritz Schulthess, International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology

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0912

Fast and slow bootstrap and the phylogeny of Hymenoptera
John Heraty, University of California; James Munro, University of California

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0913

Gene trees within species trees: Is it really just a maze?
Maxi Polihronakis, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

0914

Reproductive barriers on the beach: Speciation in the genus Aegialites Mannerheim (Coleoptera: Salpingidae)
Vladimir Gusarov, University of Oslo

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0915

On the evolution of cannibalism in insects: Some insights from a comparative study of flour beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
J. P. Michaud, Kansas State University; Taofic Alabi, Gembloux Agricultural University; Ludovic Arnaud, Gembloux Agricultural University; Eric Haubruge, Gembloux Agricultural University

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0916

The 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, USEPA

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0917

Do canal-cutting behaviors facilitate host-range expansion by insect herbivores?
David E. Dussourd, University of Central Arkansas

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Concluding Remarks