Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, SEB: Genetic, Morphological, and Ecological Diversity

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


Determining the source of soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) populations in Pennsylvania
Amanda Bachmann, Pennsylvania State University ; Andrew Michel, The Ohio State University, OARDC ; Shelby Fleischer, Pennsylvania State University
Effects of habitat complexity, prey type and abundance on intraguild predation between larval odonates
Kelly E. Flynn, University of North Florida ; Dan C. Moon, University of North Florida
Population structure of Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the United States
Steven Michael Reyna, Texas A&M University ; Aaron M. Dickey, Texas A&M University ; Silvia I. Rondon, Oregon State University ; Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M University
Effects of maggot density on the growth, survival, and asymmetry of the snail-killing fly, Sepedon fuscipennis (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
Michele Nelson, Cleveland Museum of Natural History ; Joe B. Keiper, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Abdomen marking of the parasitoid wasp, Urolepis rufipes
Jennifer Cooper, Northern Illinois University ; Bethia H. King, Northern Illinois University
Identification of QTL for aging in honey bee workers
Michelle R. Mcquage, University of North Carolina-Greensboro ; Ellen J. Lonon, University of North Carolina-Greensboro ; Robert E. Page, Arizona State University ; Olav Rueppell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Honey bee worker longevity with and without reproductive suppression by the queen
Ryan D. Kuster, University of North Carolina-Greensboro ; Luke R. Dixon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro ; Olav Rueppell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Fitness benefits of egg cannibalism in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Karyn Collie, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York ; Mitchell Baker, The City University of New York - Queens College
Factors effecting kleptoparasitism in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus
Erin K. Raspet, University of North Carolina-Greensboro ; Shunda Rushing, University of North Carolina-Greensboro ; Mary Crowe, University of North Carolina-Greensboro ; Jan Rychtár, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Testing a bottleneck hypothesis for soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) during colonization on soybean
Lucia C. Orantes, The Ohio State University, OARDC ; Andrew Michel, The Ohio State University, OARDC