ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-3

Monday, November 12, 2012: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
200 C, Floor Two (Knoxville Convention Center)
Moderators:
David Wagner
Alejandro A. Valerio


8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:03 AM
0695
Do aphid soldiers elicit an immune response in victims?
Sarah P. Lawson, Vanderbilt University ; Andrew W. Legan, Vanderbilt University ; Patrick Abbot, Vanderbilt University
8:15 AM
0696
Population and functional transcriptomics of host use evolution in the aphid Uroleucon ambrosiae.
Aman Gill, Stony Brook University ; Douglas J Futuyma, Stony Brook University ; Joshua Rest, Stony Brook University
8:27 AM
0697
A morphological perspective of North American Mordellini (Mordellidae: Mordellinae)
Brent C. Rahlwes, Sam Houston State University ; Sibyl R. Bucheli, Sam Houston State University ; Jerry L. Cook, Sam Houston State University
8:39 AM
0698
Lineage discovery in the mega-diverse tribe Staphylinini continues: Alesiella gen. nov. and other relicts (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
A.J. Brunke, University of Copenhagen ; Alexey Solodovnikov, University of Copenhagen
8:51 AM
0699
Triaging the Phyllobaenus from “Phyllobaenus”: A preliminary assessment of the New World Hydnocerini (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Hydnocerinae)
John Moeller Leavengood, University of Kentucky ; Michael J. Sharkey, University of Kentucky ; Eric G. Chapman, University of Kentucky
9:03 AM
0700
Ash mortality caused by emerald ash borer alters the forest floor environment and invertebrate community
Kayla I. Perry, Ohio State University, OARDC ; Daniel A. Herms, Ohio State University, OARDC
9:15 AM
0701
The structure of epigeic beetle (Coleoptera) assemblages in Arctic Canada
Crystal M. Ernst, McGill University ; Christopher M. Buddle, McGill University
9:27 AM
0702
Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) communities of an Illinois sand savanna and sand prairie mosaic
Alan David Yanahan, University of Illinois ; Steven J. Taylor, University of Illinois
9:39 AM
Break
9:51 AM
0703
Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) induced tree mortality alters forest bird communities
Lawrence C. Long, Ohio State University, OARDC ; Daniel A. Herms, Ohio State University, OARDC
10:03 AM
0704
Body size and dispersal ability of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) on an elevation gradient in a Neotropical cloud forest
Sarah A. Maveety, Wake Forest University ; Robert A. Browne, Wake Forest University
10:15 AM
0705
Elucidating rostrum development in the weevils (Curculionoidea) through morphology, transcriptomics, and differential gene expression
Steven Ray Davis, University of Kansas ; P. Cartwright, University of Kansas ; M. S. Engel, University of Kansas
10:27 AM
0706
Ancient eyes and scorpionflies: Evolution of panorpid visual systems (Mecoptera:Panorpidae)
Katherine F. Manwaring, Brigham Young University ; Michael F. Whiting, Brigham Young University
10:39 AM
0707
A molecular phylogeny of the lichen moth tribe Lithosiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) with a preliminary assessment of lichen phenolic sequestration
Clare H. Scott, University of Florida ; Jennifer Zaspel, Purdue University ; Susan J. Weller, University of Minnesota ; Marc A. Branham, University of Florida
10:51 AM
0708
Acoustic structures and signals in the larger Mexican pine beetle, Dendroctonus approximatus.
Kasey Maria Yturralde, Northern Arizona University ; Richard W. Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University
11:03 AM
0709
The use of chemical and visual cues in Greta morgane, a mimetic neotropical butterfly
Adrea Susan Gonzalez-Karlsson, University of California, Los Angeles
11:15 AM
0710
Rethinking species: Species delimitation in a radiation of island endemic plant bugs (Pseudoloxops) in French Polynesia
Brad Balukjian, University of California, Berkeley ; Rosemary Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley
11:27 AM
Concluding Remarks
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