Monday, 27 October 2003: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

202-212 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Section A Symposium: Phylogenomics--Arthropod Systematics in the Informatics Age

Organizer(s): Michael F. Whiting
Brian M. Wiegmann
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:05 AM0209Arthropod phylogenetics using protein-coding nuclear genes
Jerome C. Regier, Jeffrey W. Shultz, Charles Mitter
8:25 AM0210Complete arthropod mitochondrial genomes: Phylogenetically empty or mighty?
Markus Friedrich, Andrew T. Beckenbach
8:45 AM0211Phylogeny of spiders
Ward C. Wheeler
9:05 AM0212Supercomputing, mitochondrial genomics, and dense taxon sampling in insects: Deep Six 2003
Michael F. Whiting, Stephen L. Cameron, Kelly B. Miller
9:25 AMBreak
9:40 AM0213Expressed sequence tags to establish basal relationships in Coleoptera
Alfried P. Vogler, Kosmas Theodorides, Alessandra de Riva, Stuart J Longhorn
10:00 AM0214Genomics and shallow genomics in the Drosophilidae: A comparative approach
Patrick M. O'Grady, Rob DeSalle
10:20 AM0215A phylogenetic supertree for the Diptera
Brian M. Wiegmann, Rudolf Meier, David Yeates
10:40 AM0216What DNA substitution patterns can tell us about the phylogenetic utility of genes: Insights from Bayesian analyses of combined data sets
Bryan N. Danforth, C. P. Lin

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