A Discussion of the Prevalence of Host-associated Differentiation in Insects: Cascading Effects and Evolutionary Diversification

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Golden West (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Raul F Medina
Julie Byrd Hébert
Apurba K. Barman
Moderator:
Raul F. Medina


1:45 PM
Herbivore differentiation along a scale of host plant genetic variation
Luke M Evans, Northern Arizona University ; Gerry Allan, Northern Arizona University ; Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University
2:05 PM
2:15 PM
Host-plant hybridization and HAD
Julie Byrd Hébert, University of Maryland ; Sonja J. Scheffer, USDA, Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL) ; David J. Hawthorne, University of Maryland
2:35 PM
The geographic pattern of HAD
Apurba K. Barman, Texas A&M University ; Raul F Medina, Texas A&M University ; Megha N. Parajulee, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center ; Christopher G. Sansone, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center
3:15 PM
3:25 PM
HAD as a community phenomenon
Aaron M. Dickey, Texas A&M University ; Raul F Medina, Texas A&M University
3:45 PM
Starbursts of speciation: rapid amplification of diversity among Rhagoletis flies and their parasitoid wasps
Andrew A Forbes, University of Iowa ; Eric Anderson, University of Iowa ; Jeffrey Feder, University of Notre Dame ; Glen R. Wood, University of Notre Dame
4:25 PM
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