Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Phylogenetics 1 (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:15 AM-11:40 AM

Garden Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizer:

Moderators:

Jennifer M. Zaspel
Christiane Weirauch

9:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:20 AM

0557

A revision of the genera of thick-headed flies (Conopidae: Diptera) based on molecular and morphological character data

Joel Gibson, Carleton University

9:32 AM

0558

Phylogeny and sexual selection in the dance fly species group Enoplempis (Empis, Empidini)

Steven Paul Turner, North Carolina State University ; Isaac. S. Winkler, North Carolina State University ; Brian. M. Wiegmann, North Carolina State University

9:44 AM

0559

Phylogenetic relationships of Neotropical Empidinae lineages with regard to the entire subfamily

Mirian N. Mendonca, North Carolina State University ; Brian M. Wiegmann, North Carolina State University ; Isaak S. Winkler, North Carolina State University

9:56 AM

0560

Systematics and evolution of the acrobat ant Crematogaster in Madagascar

Bonnie B. Blaimer, University of California, Davis

10:08 AM

0561

Molecular evolution of the subfamily Telenominae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)

Charuwat Taekul, The Ohio State University ; Norman F. Johnson, The Ohio State University ; Alejandro A. Valerio, The Ohio State University

10:20 AM

Break

10:33 AM

0562