ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-2

Monday, November 14, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:20 AM
Room E1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizer :
Jason R. Cryan
Moderator:
Stephen P. Yanoviak
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:03 AM
0653
DNA barcoding economically important wireworm species (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Montana
Frank E. Etzler, Montana State University; Michael A. Ivie, Montana State University; Anuar Morales Rodriguez, Montana State University; Kevin W. Wanner, Montana State University
8:15 AM
0654
Is the ‘blue-ghost’ really blue? Spectral analysis of Phausis reticulata’s bioluminescence (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
Alicia M. Hodson, University of Florida; Marc A. Branham, University of Florida
8:27 AM
0655
An investigation of the opsin gene complex in scorpionflies (Mecoptera: Panorpidae)
Katherine Fager, Brigham Young University; Seth M. Bybee, Brigham Young University; Michael F. Whiting, Brigham Young University; Eric P. Benson, Clemson University; Eric P. Benson, Clemson University; Eric P. Benson, Clemson University
8:39 AM
0656
The evolutionary macroecology of exotic host use by Lepidoptera
Joshua P. Jahner, University of Nevada, Reno; Melvin M. Bonilla, University of Nevada, Reno; Kevin J. Badik, University of Nevada, Reno; Arthur M. Shapiro, University of California; Matthew Forister, University of Nevada
8:51 AM
0657
Ontogenetic shifts in efficacy of antipredator mechanisms in a top aquatic predator, Anax junius
Gareth R. Hopkins, Utah State University; Brian G. Gall, Utah State University; Edmund D. Brodie Jr, Utah State University
9:03 AM
0658
The search of low levels of Africanization in honey bees (Apis mellifera) in the United States
Katherine Darger, University of Delaware; Deborah A. Delaney, Washington State University
9:15 AM
0659
Tortricids of agricultural importance
Todd M. Gilligan, Colorado State University; Marc Epstein, California Department of Food and Agriculture
9:27 AM
0660
Do aphid soldiers sequester secondary plant compounds to combat natural enemies?
Sarah P. Lawson, Vanderbilt University; Patrick Abbot, Vanderbilt University
9:39 AM
Break
9:51 AM
0661
Interactions between the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, eastern hemlock, and benthic macroinvertebrates: cascading effects of foundation species mortality in headwater stream riparian zones
Joshua K. Adkins, University of Kentucky; Lynne Rieske-Kinney, University of Kentucky
10:03 AM
0662
Seasonal variation of defensive symbionts of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum
Andrew H. Smith, Drexel University; Jacob A. Russell, Drexel University
10:15 AM
0663
Role of bacterial endosymbionts in asexual reproduction of two bark lice species, Echmepteryx hageni and Peripsocus subfasciatus (Psocoptera)
Scott M. Shreve, University of Illinois; Kevin P. Johnson, University of Illinois
10:27 AM
0664
Pest genetic resources: Leveraging diversity patterns across agricultural landscapes
Samuel N. Crane, American Museum of Natural History
10:39 AM
0665
Predicted gustatory receptor genes in Trissolcus basalis (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
Elijah Talamas, Ohio State University; Norman Johnson, The Ohio State University
10:51 AM
0666
Associations between oviposition responses and larval survival for two tire-inhabiting mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) species in an organic chemical blend
David W. Allgood, University of Southern Mississippi; Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi
11:03 AM
0667
Potential impacts of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) on the native insect fauna of ash in eastern North Dakota
James Samuel Walker, North Dakota State University
11:15 AM
Concluding Remarks
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