Session: Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB: Evolution - Methodology and Population Studies (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 8:30 AM-11:50 AM

Sheffield (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizer :

Anthony Cognato

Moderators:

Nicholas J. Miller
Benjamin B. Normark

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

1508

Assaying the usefulness of mitochondrial sequences of the class Hexapoda for DNA barcode

Wonhoon Lee, Yeongnam Regional Office; Seunghwan Lee, Seoul National University

8:47 AM

1509

Patterns of pollinator community disassembly resulting from forest fragmentation

Rachael Winfree, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Claire Kremen, University of California, Berkeley; Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University

8:59 AM

1510

Success rates and optimisation of DNA extraction and amplification of old and non-optimally preserved beetle specimens (Lepanus: Scarabaeidae).

Nicole L Gunter, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Reseach Organisation

9:11 AM

1511

Using real-time remote diagnostics to examine valuable entomological specimens

Cor J. Vink, AgResearch; John W. M. Marris, Lincoln University; John M. Kean, AgResearch Ltd; Trevor K. Crosby, Landcare Research

9:23 AM

1512

A new way to study genetic variation in insects

Nicholas J. Miller, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Thomas W. Sappington, USDA-ARS

9:35 AM

Break

9:47 AM

1513

Multiple locus sequence analysis of alfalfa weevil (Hypera postica (Gyllenhal))

Jorge Achata, New Mexico State University; Naomi Oesterle, New Mexico State University; C. Scott Bundy, New Mexico State University; Steve F. Hanson, New Mexico State University

9:59 AM

1514

Population structure of Porthetes hispidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a pollinator of the African cycad Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi

Doug Downie, Rhodes University; Guy Williams, Rhodes University

10:11 AM

1515

Mixed signals: Deep population structure or recent divergence? Complexities of the neotropical malaria vector Anopheles darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae)

Jan E. Conn, Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH; Lisa Mirabello, State University of New York at Albany; Sara A. Bickersmith, New York State Department of Health; Marta Moreno, New York State Department of Health; Nicole L. Achee, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Robert H Gilman, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Marinete M Povoa, Instituto Evandro Chagas; Martha L. Quinones, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Richard C. Wilkerson, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

10:23 AM

1516

Systematics of An. (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis complex in South America using COI (mDNA) of topotypic specimens

Freddy Ruiz, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Richard C. Wilkerson, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Yvonne-Marie Linton, Natural History Museum; Nai S. MacKeon, The Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH; Jan E. Conn, Wadsworth Center, New York State DOH

10:35 AM

Break

10:47 AM

1518

Population genetic structure and the evolution of specialization within a multi-species ant-microbe symbiosis

Eric Caldera, University of Wisconsin; Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin

10:59 AM

1519

Population structure and aggressive interactions in the Neotropical termite Nasutitermes corniger

Timothy K. O'Connor, Field Museum of Natural History; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois; Corrie S. Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History

11:11 AM

1520