26- Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: SysEB

Monday, November 11, 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 7 (Austin Convention Center)
Moderators:
Simon Garnier
Hojun Song


8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:03 AM
0811
Island-like divergence on Florida’s sand ridges – the case of a trap-jaw ant
Daniela Sorger, North Carolina State University
8:15 AM
0812
Reproductive Consequences of primary polygyny in a harvester ant population
Brian Haney, Arizona State University ; Jennifer H Fewell, Arizona State University
8:27 AM
0813
The evolution of head size and shape relative to seed harvesting in the ant genus Pheidole
Jo-anne C. Holley, University of Illinois ; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois ; Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History
8:39 AM
0814
The function of leaf-caching behavior in leaf-cutter ant ­supply chains
Courtney Rockenbach, New Jersey Institute of Technology ; Chris Reid, New Jersey Institute of Technology ; William Wcislo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ; Simon Garnier, New Jersey Institute of Technology
8:51 AM
0815
Wolbachia as a potential driver of chemical character displacement in Crematogaster ants
Virginia Emery, University of California ; Neil Tsutsui, University of California
9:03 AM
0816
Testing the predictions of Lanchester's laws of combat with a continously polymorphic ant species
Bill D. Wills, University of Illinois ; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois
9:15 AM
0817
Evolving isolation mechanisms between two incipient species of the endoparasitic wasp, Cotesia congregata
Justin Bredlau, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Karen Kester, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:27 AM
Break
9:37 AM
0818
Testing the monophyly of Parapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) and its role in a tritrophic neotropical system
Kyle Parks, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign ; James Whitfield, University of Illinois
9:49 AM
0819
Withdrawn
10:01 AM
0820
Evolution of male lure response in the genus Bactrocera (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Michael San Jose, University of Hawaii ; Luc Leblanc, University of Hawaii ; Daniel Z. Rubinoff, University of Hawaii
10:13 AM
0821
Vive le difference:  what drives intersexual differences in size and development time of Aedes mosquitoes?
Jillian Wormington, Illinois State University ; S.A. Juliano, Illinois State University
10:25 AM
0822
Quantification of sexual selection on male song structure in wild populations of sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae)
Geoffrey Ower, Illinois State University ; Kevin Judge, Grant MacEwan University ; Sandra Steiger, University of Ulm ; John Hunt, University of Exeter ; Scott Sakaluk, Illinois State University
10:37 AM
0823
An ancient ecosystem speaks volumes: Analyzing speciation events in scrub islands of the southeastern U.S. via their endemics: Melanoplus grasshoppers belonging to the Puer Group
Derek A. Woller, University of Central Florida ; Trip Lamb, East Carolina University ; Benjamin Wipfler, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie ; Hojun Song, University of Central Florida
10:49 AM
0824
Relaxed selection in a Heliconius hybrid zone and the origin of adaptive variation
Steven G. Shaak, Mississippi State University ; Christopher P. Brooks, Mississippi State University ; Brian A. Counterman, Mississippi State University
11:01 AM
Concluding Remarks
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