Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Phylogenetics 3 (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:20 AM-11:55 AM

Crescent (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderators:

Bryan N. Danforth
Derek S. Sikes

9:20 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:25 AM

0578

Molecular phylogeny and host relationships of the ant-attacking Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera)

Elizabeth Murray, University of California; John M. Heraty, University of California; David Hawks, University of California; Andrew Carmichael, USDA-ARS

9:37 AM

0580

The Bucculatricid problem: Phylogeny of the Gracillarioidea inferred from 21 protein-coding genes. A problem of compositional heterogeneity?

Akito Y. Kawahara, University of Maryland

9:49 AM

0581

A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the lichen moth subtribe Cisthenina and its position within the tribe Lithosiini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Arctiinae): using morphological data

Clare H. Scott, University of Florida; Marc A. Branham, University of Florida

10:01 AM

0582

Systematics of New World Mordellini

Brent C. Rahlwes, Sam Houston State University; Christy Jo Geraci, Smithsonian Institution; Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History; Sibyl R. Bucheli, Sam Houston State University

10:13 AM

0583

Multiple origins of ant-associated biology in the spider beetles (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)

Glené Mynhardt, The Ohio State University; John W. Wenzel, The Ohio State University; T. Keith Philips, Western Kentucky University

10:25 AM

Break

10:38 AM

0584

Revision, phylogeny, and biogeography of the New Zealand endemic genus Agnosthaetus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Dave J. Clarke, The Field Museum

10:50 AM

0585