Tuesday, December 12, 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Room 117 (Convention Center) | |||
Section A Symposium: Different Ways to Hitch a Ride: Phylogenetic Perspectives on Ectoparasitism: Part I | |||
Organizer(s): | Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, katharinad@gmail.com Carl W. Dick, cdick@fieldmuseum.org | ||
8:00 AM | Welcoming Remarks | ||
8:10 AM | 0654 | The origin and diversification of lice (Phthiraptera) Kevin P. Johnson, kjohnson@inhs.uiuc.edu | |
8:35 AM | 0655 | Evolution of the mitochondrial genomes of lice Stephen Cameron, stephen_cameron@byu.edu, Catherine Covacin, c.covacin@uq.edu.au, Kevin P. Johnson, kjohnson@inhs.uiuc.edu, Michael F. Whiting, michael_whiting@byu.edu | |
9:00 AM | 0656 | Coevolutionary consequences of phoretic hitchhiking: Feather lice on louse flies Dale H. Clayton, clayton@biology.utah.edu, Christopher W Harbison, harbison@biology.utah.edu | |
9:25 AM | 0657 | Fight or flight: Could interspecific competition trigger phoresis by feather lice? Sarah E. Bush, bush@biology.utah.edu, Jael R Malenke, malemke@biology.utah.edu, Dale H. Clayton, clayton@biology.utah.edu | |
9:50 AM | Break | ||
10:05 AM | 0658 | Of lice and men: The use of host specific parasites to infer host evolutionary history David Reed, dreed@flmnh.ufl.edu | |
10:30 AM | 0659 | Tests for cospeciation: Explanations, how-to’s, and suggestions based on empirical data Jessica Light, jlight@flmnh.ufl.edu | |
10:55 AM | 0660 | Comparing two ectoparasitic groups: Convergent trends in parasite evolution Katharina Dittmar, katharinad@gmail.com, Michael F. Whiting, michael_whiting@byu.edu, Carl W. Dick, cdick@fieldmuseum.org, Bruce Patterson, bpatterson@fieldmuseum.org | |
11:20 AM | 0661 | Comparative microevolutionary dynamics of an endemic Galápagos bird and its five ectoparasite species: A model for studying parasite speciation Noah K. Whiteman, nwhiteman@oeb.harvard.edu, Jennifer L. Bollmer, jlbollmer@yahoo.com, Rebecca T. Kimball, rkimball@zoo.ufl.edu, Visal S. Dosanjh, valshon@gmail.com, Patricia Parker, pparker@umsl.edu | |
11:45 AM | Concluding Remarks |
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