Session: Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB: Evolution - Methodology and Population Studies (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 8:30 AM-11:50 AM

Sheffield (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizer:

Anthony I. Cognato

Moderators:

Nicholas J. Miller
Benjamin B. Normark

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

1508

Assaying the usefulness of mitochondrial sequences of the class Hexapoda for DNA barcode

Wonhoon Lee, Research Institute for Agricultural and Life Sciences ; Seunghwan Lee, Research Institute for Agricultural and Life Sciences

8:47 AM

1509

Patterns of pollinator community disassembly resulting from forest fragmentation

Rachael Winfree, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ; Claire Kremen, University of California, Berkeley ; Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University

8:59 AM

1510

Success rates and optimisation of DNA extraction and amplification of old and non-optimally preserved beetle specimens (Lepanus: Scarabaeidae).

Nicole L Gunter, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Reseach Organisation

9:11 AM

1511

Using real-time remote diagnostics to examine valuable entomological specimens

Cor J. Vink, AgResearch ; John W. M. Marris, Lincoln University ; John M. Kean, AgResearch ; Trevor K. Crosby, Landcare Research

9:23 AM

1512

A new way to study genetic variation in insects

Nicholas J. Miller, University of Nebraska - Lincoln ; Thomas W. Sappington, USDA-ARS

9:35 AM

Break

9:47 AM

1513

Multiple locus sequence analysis of alfalfa weevil (Hypera postica (Gyllenhal))

Jorge A. Achata, New Mexico State University ; Naomi Oesterle, New Mexico State University ; C. Scott Bundy, New Mexico State University ; Steve F. Hanson, New Mexico State University

9:59 AM

1514

Population structure of Porthetes hispidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a pollinator of the African cycad Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi

Doug Downie, Rhodes University ; Guy Williams, Rhodes University

10:11 AM

1515

Mixed signals: Deep population structure or recent divergence? Complexities of the neotropical malaria vector Anopheles darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae)

Jan E. Conn, The Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH ; Lisa Mirabello, State University of New York at Albany ; Sara A Bickersmith, The Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH ; Marta Moreno, The Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH ; Nicole L Achee, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ; Robert H Gilman, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Marinete M Povoa, Instituto Evandro Chagas ; Martha L Quinones, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogota ; Richard C. Wilkerson, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

10:23 AM

1516

Systematics of An. (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis complex in South America using COI (mDNA) of topotypic specimens

Freddy Ruiz, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research ; Richard C. Wilkerson, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research ; Yvonne-Marie Linton, Natural History Museum ; Nai S. MacKeon, The Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH ; Jan E. Conn, The Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH

10:35 AM

Break

10:47 AM

1518

Population genetic structure and the evolution of specialization within a multi-species ant-microbe symbiosis

Eric Caldera, University of Wisconsin ; Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:59 AM

1519

Population structure and aggressive interactions in the Neotropical termite Nasutitermes corniger

Timothy K. O'Connor, Field Museum of Natural History ; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois ; Corrie S. Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History

11:11 AM

1520

Niche explosion: abundance, invasiveness, parthenogenesis, and the evolution of extreme polyphagy in flightless plant-feeding insects

Benjamin B. Normark, University of Massachusetts ; Norman A. Johnson, University of Massachusetts Amherst

11:23 AM

1521

How did that moth get in your cocoa? Evolution of the cocoa pod borer (Conopomorpha cramerella)

Rick Roush, University of Melbourne ; Isabel Valenzuela, The University of Melbourne ; Andrew Hamilton, The University of Melbourne

11:35 AM

Concluding Remarks

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