Member Symposium: Ecological and Evolutionary Origins of Sociality: Connecting Commonalities of Social Behavior Across Diverse Insect Taxa

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 8:00 AM-12:15 PM
Meeting Room 10 AB (Austin Convention Center)
Organizers:
Sarah P. Lawson
Sandra M. Rehan
Patrick Abbot


8:00 AM
1680
Connecting commonalities of social behavior across diverse insect taxa
Patrick Abbot, Vanderbilt University
8:20 AM
1681
The selective benefits of social behavior in gregarious sawflies
Lynn Fletcher, Salem State University
8:40 AM
1682
The causes and consequences of the transition to sociality in aphids
Sarah P. Lawson, Vanderbilt University
9:00 AM
1683
Sociobiology of the sweat bee, Halictus farinosus
Laurence Packer, York University
9:20 AM
1684
Origins of eusociality in termites
Barbara L. Thorne, University of Maryland
9:40 AM
1685
The ecology of spider sociality
Leticia Aviles, University of British Columbia
10:00 AM
Break
10:10 AM
1686
The origin and maintenance of sociality in the small carpenter bees
Sandra M. Rehan, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 AM
1687
Facultative sociality in the tropical sweat bee (Megalopta genalis)
Adam Smith, The George Washington University
10:50 AM
1688
Social behavior in sweat bees varies across ecological gradients
Sarah D. Kocher, Harvard University
11:10 AM
1689
The queens wear the pants: caste differences in brain investment in eusocial paper wasps
Sean O'Donnell, Drexel University
11:30 AM
1690
Genomic insights into social evolution from primitively social Polistes wasps: Genetic toolkits, epigenetics, and novel genes
Amy L. Toth, Iowa State University
11:50 AM
1691
Phylogenetic perspectives on social evolution and co-evolution in ants
Seán Brady, National Museum of Natural History
12:10 PM
Concluding Remarks
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