Session: Advances In Acarology 2009 (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Sunday, December 13, 2009: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room 201, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Quentin Fang
Ashley PG. Dowling

8:15 AM

0001

Evaluation of basal relationships of acariform mites using five nuclear genes

Pavel B. Klimov, University of Michigan; Barry O'Connor, University of Michigan

8:30 AM

0002

Internal structures of varroa as viewed by SEM

Diana Sammataro, Carl Hayden Bee Research Center

8:45 AM

0003

Capturing mite diversity in a model tropical ecosystem using DNA barcoding and traditional systematics

Menelaos C. Stavrinides, University of California-Berkeley; George K. Roderick, University of California

9:00 AM

0004

Studies of myrmecophilous mites

Kaitlin Uppstrom, The Ohio State University; Hans Klompen, The Ohio State University

9:15 AM

0005

Digital illustration: novel techniques for species descriptions

Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas; Ashley PG. Dowling, University of Arkansas

9:30 AM

0006

IS THE ELONGATED OPISTHOSOMA IN BHARATOLIAPHILUS PUNJABENSIS PRASAD, 1975 (ACARI: PTERYGOSOMATIDAE) AN OVIPOSITOR?

Vikram Prasad, International Journal of Acarology; James Amrine, West Virginia University

9:45 AM

0007

Effectiveness of eriophyid mites for biological control of weedy plants and challenges for future research

Lincoln Smith, USDA - ARS; Enrico De Lillo, University of Bari; James Amrine, West Virginia University

10:00 AM

Break

10:30 AM

0008

Quarantine mites intercepted at ports of entry

Eric McDonald, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)

10:45 AM

0009

Study on the incidence of species composition of the mite fauna of grain stores and flour mills of Punjab, India

navpreet Kaur Gill, Punjabi University

11:00 AM

0010

Amblyomma variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae), an African tick in the Caribbean: preliminary phylogeographic data

Lorenza Beati, Georgia Southern University; Jaymin Patel, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Kelly, Ross University; Tammi Krecek, Ross University

11:15 AM

0011

Natural and biological control of blacklegged tick

Anuja Bharadwaj, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; Kirby Stafford III, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

11:30 AM

0012

Cloning and expression of a lipocalin gene from soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata

Quentin Fang, Georgia Southern University; Miles Nunn, The University of Oxford

11:45 AM

0013

Transcriptome analysis of the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum) salivary glands

Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi

12:00 PM

Concluding Remarks

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

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