Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB: Systematics 1

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:50 AM
Sheffield (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizer :
Anthony Cognato
Moderators:
Nico Franz
Eugenio H. Nearns
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
Molecular phylogeny of non-endopterygote Hexapoda: Do new data from 30 genes solve the interordinal puzzle?
Andreas Zwick, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart; Hong Zhao, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; Jerome C. Regier, University of Maryland
8:17 AM
Phylogeny of Holodonata: Can DNA inform more than 300 million years of morphology?
Seth M. Bybee, Brigham Young University; Sarah Seeley, Brigham Young University; Michael F. Whiting, Brigham Young University; Keith A. Crandall, Brigham Young University
8:29 AM
Mitochondrial genome phylogeny of termites (Isoptera) with emphasis on family-level relationships
Stephen Cameron, CSIRO Entomology; Theodore Evans, CSIRO Entomology
8:41 AM
Evolutionary relationships among North and Central American triatomines, vectors of Chagas disease
Patricia L Dorn, Loyola University; Stephen Klotz, University of Arizona; Justin Schmidt, Southwestern Biological Institute; M. Carlota Monroy, Universidad de San Carlos; Nicholas de la Rua, Loyola University New Orleans
8:53 AM
Life in the web: phylogenetics of thread-legged bugs (Reduviidae: Emesinae)
Christiane Weirauch, University of California; Dimitri Forero, University of California-Riverside
9:17 AM
Break
9:29 AM
A molecular phylogeny of the Dog Day cicadas of North America (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicen)
Katherine B. R. Hill, University of Connecticut; David C. Marshall, University of Connecticut; Chris Simon, University of Connecticut
9:41 AM
Systematics and island biogeography of native Hawaiian leafhoppers (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Nesophrosyne)
Gordon Bennett, University of California, Berkeley; Patrick M. O'Grady, University of California, Berkeley
9:53 AM
Systematics and biogeography of Iassine leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae) in Madagascar
Sindhu M. Krishnankutty, University of Illinois; Christopher H. Dietrich, University of Illinois
10:05 AM
Introduction to a revision of the New World Exosternini (Coleoptera: Histeridae): looking at beetle diversity outside of 'coolness' zone
Alexey K. Tishechkin, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Michael S. Caterino, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
10:29 AM
Break
10:41 AM
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Parandrinae and Prioninae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the world
Eugenio H. Nearns, University of New Mexico; Ian Swift, California State Collection of Arthropods; Adam Slipinsky, CSIRO Entomology; Stephen Cameron, CSIRO Entomology; Kelly B. Miller, University of New Mexico
10:53 AM
Preliminary insights into the phylogeny of the genus Lachnopus Schoenherr 1840 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
Jennifer C. Girón, University of Puerto Rico; Nico Franz, University of Puerto Rico
11:05 AM
Molecular phylogeny of ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) inferred from mitochondrial 28S rDNA sequences
Aruggoda Gamage Buddhika Aruggoda, The Open University of Sri Lanka; Ren Shunxiang, South China Agricultural University; Qui Baoli, South China Agricultural University
11:17 AM
Fossil rove beetles: challenges and surprises
Stylianos Chatzimanolis, University of Tennessee
11:29 AM
Early evolution of the beetles
Alexander L. Wild, University of Illinois; Kojun Kanda, Northern Arizona University; Duane McKenna, University of Memphis; Brian D. Farrell, Harvard University; David Maddison, Oregon State University
11:41 AM
Concluding Remarks