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When Entomologists Date: Using Fossils and Molecular Data to Determine Insect Evolutionary Divergence and Biogeography.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 1:00 PM-5:05 PM
Garden Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Jessica L. Ware
Jessica Thomas
Akito Yuji Kawahara
Margaret
1:00 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:15 PM
1567
Diversification and evolution of the Australian cicada genus Pauropsalta
Christopher L. Owen, University of Connecticut
1:30 PM
1568
The Palaeoptera Problem: Attempting to resolve relationships between the winged insect lineages
Jessica Thomas, Australia National University
1:45 PM
1569
Molecules and fossils - Divergence time estimation for studying the evolution of bioluminescence in Coleoptera
Marc Branham, University of Florida; Jessica E. Light, Texas A&M University
2:00 PM
1570
Phylogenetic diversification patterns and divergence times in ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae)
Karen Ober, Holy Cross
2:15 PM
1571
Do the Rocks and Clocks agree for Insecta?: a review of recent insect molecular and fossil age estimates
Jessica L. Ware, American Museum of Natural History
2:30 PM
1572
Recent evidence indicating an early (Middle Pennsylvanian) divergence time for the Holometabola
Conrad Labandeira, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
2:45 PM
1573
What do molecular clocks tell us about the evolution of ants?
Corrie S. Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History
3:00 PM
Break
3:15 PM
1574
Dating the antiquity of bees using multiple nuclear genes and relaxed-clock methods
Sophie Cardinal, Cornell University; Bryan N. Danforth, Cornell University
3:30 PM
1575
Getting the most from relaxed molecular clocks when fossils are few: Dating the Australasian origin, rapid diversification and global expansion of a large cicada tribe
David C. Marshall, University of Connecticut
3:45 PM
1576
Phylogeny and relaxed-clock dating of the bee family Megachilidae
Jesse R. Litman, Cornell University; Christophe Praz, Cornell University; Bryan N. Danforth, Cornell University
4:00 PM
1577
Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plants
Duane McKenna, University of Memphis
4:15 PM
1578
Origin of modern grasshoppers: A molecular phylogeny of Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera)
Hojun Song, Brigham Young University
4:30 PM
1579
Evolutionary implications of divergence estimates within ants and bees
Seán Brady, Smithsonian Institution
4:45 PM
1580
Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)
Jessica E. Light, Texas A&M University
5:00 PM
Concluding Remarks
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