Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, SEB: Species Diversity

Monday, December 14, 2009: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Hall D, First Floor (Convention Center)


Development of genetic markers to facilitate genetic studies in the Lyme disease tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)
Catherine Silva, Purdue University ; Jason Meyer, Purdue University ; Brian Abernathy, Purdue University ; Catherine A. Hill, Purdue University
Examining the effect of random damage and algorithm choice on the accuracy of DNA identification (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Matthew J. Flom, University of North Dakota ; Rebecca Simmons, University of North Dakota ; Aaron Bergstrom, University of North Dakota
Halictophagus species from Madagascar
Carly M. Tribull, University of California-Berkeley ; Jerry L. Cook, Sam Houston State University
Enterobacter sp., a symbiotic bacterium found in Hessian fly
Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University ; Raman Bansal, Kansas State University
Seasonal diversity of canopy dwelling planthoppers (Fulgoroidea: Hemiptera) in Terre Firme forests of Amazonian Ecuador
Lawrence E. Barringer, University of Delaware ; Charles R. Bartlett, University of Delaware ; Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution
Scarab diversity in northeast Iowa
Reese John Worthington, Luther College ; Kirk Larsen, Luther College
Is beetle diversity correlated with the diversity of host trees in MMSF and YWSF?
Hossam Eldien Abdel Moniem, Purdue University ; Jeffrey D. Holland, Purdue University
Nested patterns of beta-diversity in forest Diptera
Valérie Lévesque-Beaudin, McGill University ; Terry A. Wheeler, McGill University
Phylogeography and variation in sexual characters in Argia moesta damselflies (Odonata: Coenagrionidae): a test of the lock and key hypothesis
Ahalya Skandarajah, The Ohio State University ; Ryan Caesar, The Ohio State University ; John W. Wenzel, The Ohio State University
Comparative analysis of aquatic insect, amphipod, and isopod communities in Missouri spring systems
Megan M. Zeller, University of Missouri ; Richard M. Houseman, University of Missouri-Columbia ; Robert W. Sites, University of Missouri
Diversity and abundance of beneficial versus pest Cerambycidae
Thomas Mager, Purdue University ; Jeff Holland, Purdue University