Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Phylogenetics 2

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:15 AM-11:45 AM
Garden Salon 1 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Moderators:
Jason R. Cryan
Kelly B. Miller
9:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:20 AM
Phylogeny of eastern North American leiobunine harvestmen (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) and coevolution of male and female reproductive structures
Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland; Jeffrey Shultz, University of Maryland; Marshal Hedin, San Diego State University
9:32 AM
Determining the phylogenetic status of Macromiidae among anisopterous dragonflies (Insecta:Odonata)
Elizabeth F. Ballare, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9:44 AM
Genital evolution, sexual selection, and phylogeny of Argia damselflies
Ryan Caesar, The Ohio State University; John W. Wenzel, The Ohio State University; Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College
9:56 AM
A phylogenetic study of endoglucanases from higher termites
Nurmastini Bujang, University of Florida; Nan-Yao Su, University of Florida; Nigel Harrison, University of Florida
10:08 AM
On the fringe of evolution:  Phylogeny of Thysanoptera based on molecular data
Rebecca S. Buckman, Brigham Young University; Michael F. Whiting, Brigham Young University
10:20 AM
Break
10:33 AM
A molecular phylogeny of the family Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
Joseph D. Mugleston, Brigham Young University; Hojun Song, University of Central Florida; Michael F. Whiting, Brigham Young University
10:45 AM
Morphological and molecular phylogenies of Apiomerus:  The crassipes and pictipes species groups (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
Lily Berniker, University of California-Riverside; Christiane Weirauch, University of California
10:57 AM
Towards resolving the polyphyletic Reduviinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
Wei Song Hwang, University of California, Riverside; Christiane Weirauch, University of California
11:09 AM
A molecular phylogeny of the Machaerotidae, the tube-making spittlebug (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea)
Adam J. Bell, State University of New York; Jason R. Cryan, New York State Museum
11:21 AM
A phylogeny of the leafhopper tribe Paralimnini (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae)
Therese A. Catanach, University of Illinois; Christopher H. Dietrich, University of Illinois
11:33 AM
Concluding Remarks