Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, SEB: Species Diversity (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Monday, December 14, 2009: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM

Hall D, First Floor (Convention Center)

Development of genetic markers to facilitate genetic studies in the Lyme disease tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)

Catherine Silva, Purdue University; Jason Meyer, Purdue University; Brian Abernathy, Purdue University; Catherine HIll, Purdue University

D0114

Examining the effect of random damage and algorithm choice on the accuracy of DNA identification (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Matthew J. Flom, University of North Dakota; Rebecca Simmons, University of North Dakota; Aaron Bergstrom, University of North Dakota

D0115

Halictophagus species from Madagascar

Carly M. Tribull, University of California, Berkeley; Jerry L. Cook, Sam Houston State University

D0116

Enterobacter sp., a symbiotic bacterium found in Hessian fly

Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University; Raman Bansal, The Ohio State University

D0117

Seasonal diversity of canopy dwelling planthoppers (Fulgoroidea: Hemiptera) in Terre Firme forests of Amazonian Ecuador

Lawrence E. Barringer, University of Delaware; Charles Bartlett, University of Delaware; Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

D0118

Scarab diversity in northeast Iowa

Reese J. Worthington, The University of Mississippi; Kirk Larsen, Luther College

D0119

Is beetle diversity correlated with the diversity of host trees in MMSF and YWSF?

Hossam Eldien Abdel Moniem, Purdue University; Jeffrey D. Holland, Purdue University

D0120

Nested patterns of beta-diversity in forest Diptera

Valérie Lévesque-Beaudin, McGill University; Terry A. Wheeler, McGill University

D0122

Phylogeography and variation in sexual characters in Argia moesta damselflies (Odonata: Coenagrionidae): a test of the lock and key hypothesis

Ahalya Skandarajah, The Ohio State University; Ryan Caesar, The Ohio State University; John W. Wenzel, The Ohio State University

D0123

Comparative analysis of aquatic insect, amphipod, and isopod communities in Missouri spring systems

Megan M. Zeller, University of Missouri; Richard M. Houseman, University of Missouri-Columbia; Robert W. Sites, University of Missouri

D0124

Diversity and abundance of beneficial versus pest Cerambycidae

Thomas Mager, Purdue University; Jeffrey Holland, Purdue University

D0125

Documenting Buprestidae diversity of New York before establishment of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, as detected by the philanthine digger wasp, Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)

Warren E. Hellman, SUNY-ESF; Melissa K. Fierke, State University of New York

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