Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, SEB: Genetic, Morphological, and Ecological Diversity

Monday, December 14, 2009: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Hall D, First Floor (Convention Center)
Determining the source of soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) populations in Pennsylvania
Amanda Bachmann, Penn State University; Andrew Michel, The Ohio State University; Shelby Fleischer, Pennsylvania State University
Effects of habitat complexity, prey type and abundance on intraguild predation between larval odonates
Kelly E. Flynn, University of North Florida; Dan C. Moon, University of North Florida
Population structure of Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the United States
Steven Michael Reyna, Texas A&M University; Aaron M. Dickey, Texas A&M University; Silvia I. Rondon, Oregon State University; Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M University
Effects of maggot density on the growth, survival, and asymmetry of the snail-killing fly, Sepedon fuscipennis (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
Michele Nelson, Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Joe B. Keiper, Virginia Museum of Natural History
Abdomen marking of the parasitoid wasp, Urolepis rufipes
Jennifer Cooper, Northern Illinois University; Bethia H. King, Northern Illinois University
Identification of QTL for aging in honey bee workers
Michelle R. Mcquage, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Ellen J. Lonon, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Robert E. Page, Arizona State University; Olav Rueppell, University of North Carolina
Honey bee worker longevity with and without reproductive suppression by the queen
Ryan D. Kuster, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Luke R. Dixon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Olav Rueppell, University of North Carolina
Fitness benefits of egg cannibalism in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Karyn Collie, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Mitchell Baker, Queens College, City University of New York
Factors effecting kleptoparasitism in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus
Erin K. Raspet, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Shunda Rushing, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Mary Crowe, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Jan Rychtár, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Testing a bottleneck hypothesis for soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) during colonization on soybean
Lucia C. Orantes, The Ohio State University, OARDC; Andrew Michel, The Ohio State University