Session: Ten-Minute Papers, SEB: Molecules, Ecology and Biodiversity (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Room 103, First Floor (Convention Center)

Moderators:

Richard S. Zack
Sibyl, R. Bucheli

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:35 PM

0943

Identification of death-scene maggot using modern molecular techniques

Rekha Ragavendra, Sam Houston State University ; Sibyl R. Bucheli, Sam Houston State University ; Christopher P. Randle, Sam Houston State University

1:47 PM

0944

The genetic basis of interspecies host preference differences in the model parasitoid, Nasonia

Christopher A. Desjardins, University of Rochester ; John H. Werren, University of Rochester

1:59 PM

0946

Genetic differentiation in clones of the parthenogenetic springtail, Folsomia candida

Rosanna Giordano, University of Illinois ; Spencer Johnston, Texas A&M University ; James B. Nardi, University of Illinois ; Paul Henning Krogh, National Environmental Research Institute ; Felipe N. Soto-Adames, University of Illinois

2:11 PM

0947

Genetic variation in male remating lag in Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a parasitoid of house fly pupae

C. Robyn Fischer, Northern Illinois University

2:23 PM

0948

Geographic population structure of the specialist parasitoid, Hyposter horticola, and its hyperparasitoid, Mesochorus sp. cf. Stigmaticus, in the Åland Islands, Finland

Melaina Macone, Texas A&M University ; Saskya Van Nouhuys, University of Helsinki ; Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M University

2:35 PM

0949

Ecological niche modeling and invasion potential of European crane flies (Tipula oleracea L. and Tipula paludosa Meigen) in North America

Matthew J. Petersen, Cornell University ; Daniel C. Peck, Cornell University

2:47 PM

0950

The relationship between color pattern and feeding behavior in three species of leafhoppers

Arash Rashed, University of California, Berkeley ; Joyce Kwan, University of California-Berkeley ; Rodrigo Almeida, University of California-Berkeley

2:59 PM

0951

Diversity of riparian and green ash feeding moths in central New York

Peter J. Rockermann, SUNY-ESF ; Melissa K. Fierke, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry ; Dylan Parry, SUNY-ESF

3:11 PM

Break

3:23 PM

0952

Differential effect of water removal on endemic and introduced aquatic insects in a tropical, torrential habitat

Megan Shoda, University of Dayton ; Kathleen Gorbach, University of Dayton ; Albert Burky, University of Dayton ; M. Eric Benbow, University of Dayton

3:35 PM

0953

Necrophagous insect and microbial community assembly variation in a Midwest forest

Andrew Lewis, University of Dayton ; M.C. Berg, University of Dayton ; Sandra Tilton, University of Dayton ; M. Eric Benbow, University of Dayton

3:47 PM

0954

The effects of man-made disturbance (Anthropogenic) as a functional implication on Orthopteran assemblage in Zontan

Shahenda Abu ElEla, Kanazawa University ; Koji Nakamura, Kanazawa University ; Wael ElSayed, Kanazawa University

3:59 PM

0955

Disturbance drives shifts in the dominance structure of forest longhorn beetles

Jeffrey D. Holland, Purdue University