Session: Advances In Acarology 2009 (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Advances In Acarology 2009

Sunday, December 13, 2009: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room 201, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Quentin Q. Fang
Ashley PG. Dowling

8:15 AM

Evaluation of basal relationships of acariform mites using five nuclear genes

Pavel B. Klimov, University of Michigan ; Barry OConnor, University of Michigan

8:30 AM

Internal structures of varroa as viewed by SEM

Diana Sammataro, Carl Hayden Bee Research Center

8:45 AM

Capturing mite diversity in a model tropical ecosystem using DNA barcoding and traditional systematics

Menelaos C. Stavrinides, University of California-Berkeley ; George K. Roderick, University of California-Berkeley

9:00 AM

Studies of myrmecophilous mites

Kaitlin Uppstrom, The Ohio State University ; Hans Klompen, The Ohio State University

9:15 AM

Digital illustration: novel techniques for species descriptions

Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas ; Ashley PG. Dowling, University of Arkansas

9:30 AM

IS THE ELONGATED OPISTHOSOMA IN BHARATOLIAPHILUS PUNJABENSIS PRASAD, 1975 (ACARI: PTERYGOSOMATIDAE) AN OVIPOSITOR?

Vikram Prasad, International Journal of Acarology ; James Amrine, West Virginia University

9:45 AM

Effectiveness of eriophyid mites for biological control of weedy plants and challenges for future research

Lincoln Smith, USDA-ARS ; Enrico De Lillo, University of Bari ; James Amrine, West Virginia University

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Quarantine mites intercepted at ports of entry

Eric McDonald, USDA-APHIS-PPQ

10:45 AM

Study on the incidence of species composition of the mite fauna of grain stores and flour mills of Punjab, India

navpreet Kaur Gill, Punjabi University

11:00 AM

Amblyomma variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae), an African tick in the Caribbean: preliminary phylogeographic data

Lorenza Beati, Georgia Southern University ; Jaymin Patel, Georgia Southern University ; Patrick Kelly, Ross University ; Tammi Krecek, Ross University

11:15 AM

Natural and biological control of blacklegged tick

Anuja Bharadwaj, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ; Kirby C. Stafford, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

11:30 AM

Cloning and expression of a lipocalin gene from soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata

Quentin Q. Fang, Georgia Southern University ; Miles Nunn, The University of Oxford

11:45 AM

Transcriptome analysis of the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum) salivary glands

Shahid Karim, University of Southern Mississippi

12:00 PM

Concluding Remarks

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

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