Monday, December 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Pacific Salon Three, Golden Pacific Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

A, Session A3. Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution

Organizer(s): M. Alma Solis
Carol D. Von Dohlen
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0277Gene flow between two giant hairy scorpions (Hadrurus arizonensis and H. spadix)
Garrett Brady Hughes, Keith A. Crandall
8:17 AM0278Investigating the role of sexual selection in green lacewing speciation
Suegene Noh
8:29 AM 0279Tracing the origins of the praying mantises (Dictyoptera: Mantodea): The emergence of modern Gondwanaland mantises and their subsequent ecomorphic convergences
Gavin Svenson, Michael F. Whiting
8:41 AM0280Genetic evidence for parallel evolution of host use in the pea aphid
Joan A. West, David J. Hawthorne, Sara Via
8:53 AM0281Host plant associated genetic differences in cotton fleahopper, Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae)
Apurba K. Barman, Raul F. Medina, Megha N. Parajulee, Charles Suh, Christopher G. Sansone
9:05 AM 0282Can herbivory-induced host resistance maintain genetic variation in herbivores?: Quantitative genetics of tolerance to induction in the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
Adam Ehmer
9:17 AM Break
9:29 AM0283Phylogeny and evolution of host use habits in the Buprestidae (Coleoptera)
Amanda M. Evans, Brian Farrell
9:41 AM0284Evolution of cleptoparasitism in apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Sophie Cardinal, Bryan N Danforth
9:53 AM0285Halictid bees harbor cryptic species of host specific nematodes
Quinn S. McFrederick
10:05 AM 0286Azteca ants and their plants: Investigating the evolution of myrmecophytic associations in the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Stephanie M Johnson
10:17 AM 0287Resource partitioning in the genus Tetanocera (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
Eric G Chapman, Benjamin A Foote, Walter R Hoeh
10:29 AM 0288Microbial diversity associated with the fruit-piercing and blood-feeding moth Calyptra thalictri (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Jennifer M. Zaspel, Marjorie A. Hoy

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