SysEB: Evolution

Moderator(s)

• JW

  Jen White

  Professor
  Department of Entomology
  University of Kentucky
  Lexington, Kentucky
• 

  Daniel Rubinoff

  Professor
  PEPS-Entomology
  University of Hawai'i
  Honolulu, Hawai'i

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT

  A highly divergent and tiny-genomed obligate Wolbachia symbiont in an insect-parasitic nematode
  

  Presenting Author: Steve J. Perlman – University of Victoria

  Co-Author: Jan Dudzic – University of Victoria

  Co-Author: Caitlin I. Curtis – University of Victoria
• 1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT

  A single amino acid polymorphism in natural Metchnikowin alleles of Drosophila results in systemic immunity and life history tradeoffs
  

  Presenting Author: Jessamyn Perlmutter – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: Joanne Chapman – Institute of Environmental and Scientific Research

  Co-Author: Mason Wilkinson – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Isaac Nevarez-Saenz – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: Robert Unckless – University of Kansas
• 1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT

  Ancestral state reconstruction illuminates ant venom evolution and need for natural history studies
  

  Presenting Author: Kyle S. Sozanski – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Tappey Jones – Virginia Military Institute
• 2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT

  Anti-bat ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread
  

  Presenting Author: David Plotkin – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jesse R. Barber – Boise State University

  Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
• 2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT

  Diversification of Astragalus-feeding seed beetles (Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) across the western U.S.
  

  Presenting Author: Geoffrey E. Morse – University of San Diego
• 2:42 PM – 2:54 PM PT

  Break
• 2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT

  Evolution and diversification dynamics of butterflies
  

  Presenting Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Ana P. S. Carvalho (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: David Plotkin – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Ryan A. St Laurent (he/him/his) – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Xuankun Li – University of Memphis

  Co-Author: Chandra Earl – Bernice P. Bishop Museum

  Co-Author: Emmanuel Toussaint – Natural History Museum of Geneva

  Co-Author: Amanda Markee – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Naomi Pierce – Harvard University

  Co-Author: David J. Lohman – University of New York
• 3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT

  Increasing social insect prevalence in the Cenozoic precipitated convergent dietary specialization among mammals
  

  Presenting Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Thomas Vida – University of Bonn

  Co-Author: Zachary Calamari – Baruch College
• 3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT

  Paternal symbiont infection promotes production of daughters in a linyphiid spider
  

  Presenting Author: Jen A. White – University of Kentucky

  Co-Author: Laura Rosenwald – University of Kentucky

  Co-Author: Emily Shea Durkin – University of Tampa
• 3:42 PM – 3:54 PM PT

  Phylogeographic and endosymbiont analyses of Pezothrips kellyanus reveal the Australian source populations of invasions elsewhere
  

  Presenting Author: Alihan Katlav – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

  Co-Author: Doung T. Nguyen – Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute

  Co-Author: Jodie Cheesman – Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

  Co-Author: Asha Chhagan – Plant and Food Research

  Co-Author: Lisa Jamieson – Plant and Food Research

  Co-Author: Stewart Learmonth – Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

  Co-Author: Alexander Robertson – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

  Co-Author: Piotr Trebicki – Agriculture Victoria Research

  Co-Author: James M. Cook – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

  Co-Author: Markus Riegler – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
• 3:54 PM – 4:06 PM PT

  Break
• 4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT

  The glassy-winged sharpshooter genome sheds light on the molecular basis of brochosomes
  

  Presenting Author: Zheng Li – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Nancy Moran – University of Texas
• 4:30 PM – 4:42 PM PT

  The intractable evolutionary mystery of Hawaii’s most diverse radiation, the fancy case caterpillars (Hyposmocoma:Cosmopterigidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Rubinoff – University of Hawai'i

  Co-Author: Michael San Jose – University of Hawai'i

  Co-Author: Camiel Doorenweerd – University of Hawai'i

  Co-Author: Kyhl Austin – University of Hawai'i

  Co-Author: Scott M. Geib – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: julian dupuis – University of Kentucky
• 4:42 PM – 4:54 PM PT

  The role of nuptial gift proteins in sexual conflict in the decorated cricket
  

  Presenting Author: Bert Foquet – Illinois State University

  Co-Author: Maria Albo – Universidad de la República

  Co-Author: Jack Mckermitt – Illinois State University

  Co-Author: John Hunt – Western Sydney University

  Co-Author: Benjamin Sadd – Illinois State University

  Co-Author: Scott Sakaluk – Illinois State University
• 4:54 PM – 5:06 PM PT

  Variation in lek return rates between the sexes and selection for mate acquisition traits in a female-ornamented fly, Rhamphmyia longicauda (Loew, 1861)
  

  Presenting Author: Rosalind Murray – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Locke Rowe – University of Toronto