2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB2. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

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

Moderators:

Andy Deans and Daniel Z Rubinoff

Introductory Remarks

Testing host associated differentiation on two parthenogenetic parasitoid species in a native forest system
Mauro Simonato, Universita' di Padova; Raul F Medina, Texas A&M University; Andrea Battisti, Universita' di Padova

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Host specificity: The answer to the temperate parasitoid diversity anomaly
Kacie Johansen, University of Kentucky; Michael J Sharkey, University of Kentucky

Host associated differentiation in indigenous tree species
Aaron M Dickey, Texas A&M University; Raul F Medina, Texas A&M University

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Symbiont-mediated immunocomptence in the dampwood termite (Zootermopsis angusticollis)
Kelley F Schultheis, Northeastern University; Mark S Bulmer, Towson University; Rebeca Rosengaus, Northeastern University

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Fungal pressures within and surrounding nests of the arboreal termite species Nasutitermes acajutlae
Marielle A. Postava-Davignon, Northeastern University; Claire A. Fuller, Murray State University; John W. Stiller, East Carolina University; Erica A. Waddle, East Carolina University; Rebeca B. Rosengaus, Northeastern University

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Genetic approaches enhance our understanding of the consumption of insects by forest-dwelling bats
Luke E. Dodd, University of Kentucky; Lynne K. Rieske-Kinney, University of Kentucky; Michael J. Lacki, University of Kentucky

Break

Love thy neighbor: Composition of whirligig beetle aggregations in the East Texas Big Thicket (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae)
Edward Realzola, Sam Houston State University; Jerry L. Cook, Sam Houston State University

Nutritional conditionality of an ant-lycaenid interaction
Matthew D. Trager, University of Florida

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Genetic evidence for host race formation in the leafmining fly, Phytomyza glabricola (Diptera: Agromyzidae)
Julie Byrd Hébert, University of Maryland; Sonja J. Scheffer, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory; David J Hawthorne, University of Maryland

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Cospeciation in parasitic quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) and their bird hosts
Sarah A. Hendricks, San Francisco State University; Greg S. Spicer, San Francisco State University

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Host-associated hybrid behavior: A novel aspect of postmating isolation in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles
Scott P. Egan, Vanderbilt University; Daniel J. Funk, Vanderbilt University

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