Ten-Minute Papers, SEB: Ecology and Evolution

Tuesday, December 15, 2009: 7:15 AM-11:00 AM
Room 102, First Floor (Convention Center)
Moderators:
Janice Bossart
Robert Kula


7:20 AM
Species of chalkbrood (Ascosphaera) competing within the honey bee (Apis mellifera) host
Svjetlana Vojvodic, University of Copenhagen ; Annette B. Jensen, University of Copenhagen ; Jřrgen Eilenberg, University of Copenhagen
7:32 AM
Determining the genetic diversity and population structure of non-managed honey bee (Apis mellifera) nests collected throughout North Carolina
Deborah A. Delaney, University of Delaware ; David R. Tarpy, North Carolina State University
7:44 AM
Spatial effects cause task specialization in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)
Brian Johnson, University of California-Berkeley
8:20 AM
New species of entomopathogenic nematodes from Chile
Steve Edgington, CABI ; Dave Moore, CABI ; Loreto Merino, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias ; Andrés France, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias
8:32 AM
Geographical variation in pyrethroid knockdown resistance allele frequencies in the bed bug, Cimex lectularius, across the United States
Warren Booth, North Carolina State University ; Coby Schal, North Carolina State University ; Edward L. Vargo, North Carolina State University
8:56 AM
Patterns of genetic variation and host adaptation in the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi, in southern Australia
Isabel Valenzuela, The University of Melbourne ; Peter M. Ridland, Consulting Entomologist ; Mallik M. Malipatil, Department of Primary Industries ; Andrew R. Weeks, The University of Melbourne ; Ary A. Hoffmann, University of Melbourne
9:08 AM
9:23 AM
A matrix format identification key to the Reticulitermes spp. (Isoptera) of Georgia, US
Su Yee Lim, University of Georgia ; Joseph V. McHugh, University of Georgia ; Tracie M. Jenkins, University of Georgia ; Brian T. Forschler, University of Georgia
9:35 AM
The Cotesia flavipes complex, polydnavirus and host-associated biotypes
Kate Muirhead, The University of Adelaide ; Andrew Austin, University of Adelaide
9:59 AM
Waiter, there is a wasp in my soup! A quantitative assessment of pan trap color preference in Hymenoptera
Robert R. Kula, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; Matthew L. Buffington, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; Sam Droege, USGS ; Michael W. Gates, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; Abigail R. Kula, University of Maryland-College Park ; David R. Smith, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory
10:11 AM
Historical and contemporary demography of United States populations of western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera)
Kenneth Oswald, US Environmental Protection Agency ; Uwe Stolz, US Environmental Protection Agency ; Mark Bagley, US Environmental Protection Agency
10:23 AM
Cuticular hydrocarbons in Kurdistan populations of Anopheles maculipennis complex (Diptera: Culicidae)
Mahmood Reza Nikbakhtzadeh, Tarbiat Modares University ; Samrand Saeedi, Tarbiat Modares University
10:35 AM
Where’s the trade-off?  Plasticity of development in response to degree of environmental variability in Aedes albopictus
Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi ; Steven A. Juliano, Illinois State University ; Steven M. Vamosi, University of Calgary
10:47 AM
Marching with microbes: bacterial communities of the army ants
Jacob A. Russell, Drexel University ; Colin Funaro, Drexel University ; Daniel Kronauer, Harvard University ; Corrie S. Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History ; Benjamin Goldman-Huertas, Harvard University ; David Suh, Drexel University ; Naomi E. Pierce, Harvard University