AMS 2002 Contributed Talks
Session #1, Sunday 10:20 – 12:00.

Benoît Dayrat - History of the Classification of Mollusks.

Gerhard Steiner, Hermann Dreyer  and Elizabeth M. Harper - Molecular phylogeny of the anomalodesmatan Bivalvia inferred from 18S and 28S rDNA sequences.

David C. Campbell - Molecular insights on a traditional taxon: Heteroconchia and Suborder Venerina.

Alan J. Kohn - Biodiversity of Conus: How many species are there?

Fred E. Wells - Malacological Results of the Western Australian Marine Biological Workshop Series.
 
 

Session #2, Sunday 1:20 – 3:00.

Kenneth A. Hayes - Evolution of the “Corona Complex” in the genus Melongena (Gastropoda:Melongenidae).

Caren E. Braby - Environmental physiology and distribution of Mytilus as a model for understanding species invasions.

Fabio Moretzsohn - More than just a pretty pattern: what the spots on the shell of Cribrarula cribraria tell us about its anatomy (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae).

Rebecca M. Price - Is there a functional relationship between columellar folds and the columellar muscle in neogastropods?

Alan J. Kohn - Six-shooters of the mollusc world: Prey capture by molluscivorous Conus.
 
 

Session #3, Sunday 3:20 – 5:00.

J. T. Thompson and J. R. Voight - Erectile tissue in the Octopus copulatory organ.

Roland C. Anderson - Sleep behavior in octopuses Enteroctopus dofleini (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae).

Jochen Gerber & Esther Schechter - Mollusks from archaeological excavations in NW Papua New Guinea.

Lyle D. Campbell, Sarah C. Campbell, and Andrew K. Rindsberg - Fossils labeled  "Prof. Tuomey"  "Miocene, S. C." housed in the collections of the Alabama Geological Survey.

Matthew Campbell  - Systematics and Phylogenetics of late Paleozoic Streptacidae (Gastropoda, Heterostropha).
 
 

Session #4, Monday 8:40 – 10:00.

Fabio Moretzsohn - Making the best of museum specimens: a simple method to recover the radula, odontophore and DNA from dried tissues for taxonomic and phylogenetic studies.

Paul Callomon - Byne’s disease in molluscan collections: detection and treatment strategies.

James H. McLean - Odostomiine genera reconsidered: shell characters versus spermatophore characters.

Robert H. Cowie, David G. Robinson, and Robert T. Dillon, Jr. - The AMS list of unwanted alien snails in the USA: progress report.
 
 

Session #5: Monday 10:20 – 12:00.

Douglas Prasher, John Molongoski, Peggy Elder, and David Robinson - Identification of mollusk taxa at U.S. ports of entry: Help from molecular biology.

Somsak Panha, Piyoros Tongkerd, Chirasak Sutcharit, Sakbovon Tumpeesuwan, Pongpun Prasankok and  John B. Burch - Distribution of  Pupillid Micro Land Snails in Thailand and Adjacent Areas.

G. Thomas Watters - Land Snail Fauna of a Reclaimed Strip-Mined Land Site in the Midwest of the USA.

Timothy A. Pearce - When a snail dies in the forest, how long will the shell persist?

Piyoros Tongkerd - Testing the Phylogenetic utility of taxonomic shell characters in Thai Pupillid Micro Land Snails.
 
 

Session #6, Monday 1:20 – 3 :40.

Thomas Wilke, Markus Pfenninger & George M. Davis - Shaken not stirred: phylogeography of Oncomelania hupensis hupensis in the Yangtze River.

Fred G. Thompson and E.L. Mihalcik - The freshwater snails of the Elimia curvicostata complex from the southeastern rivers of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama (GASTROPODA:  PLEUROCERIDAE).

Jeffrey D. Sides - Phylogenetic Systematics and Conservation Status of the Pleurocera of the Mobile Basin.

David C. Richards, Dianne Cazier Shinn, and Billie L. Kerans - The invasive New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum in Western USA.

Russell L. Minton and Steven P. Savarese, Jr. - A new species of pleurocerid snail from the Harpeth River, Tennesee.

Steven J. Lysne - Experimental studies on the substrate preference of two gastropods endemic to the middle Snake River, Idaho, USA.

Frida Ben-Ami - Parthenogenesis: Red Queen vs. Reproductive Assurance.
 
 

Session #7, Tuesday 8:20 – 10:00.

John E. Weinstein - Ultraviolet light enhances the toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to glochidia of the paper pondshell, Utterbackia imbecillis.

Malcolm F. Vidrine, Dale D. Edwards, Arthur E. Bogan and Walter R. Hoeh - Gill mites and unionoid phylogeny.

Jeanne M. Serb - The complete mitochondrial genome of the freshwater mussel Lampsilis ornata (Unionidae): Insight into the evolution of gene rearrangement in Mollusca.

Richard J. Neves, Jess W. Jones, and William F. Henley - Propagation of endangered freshwater mussels in the United States.

Daniel L. Graf - Phylogenetic Re-evaluation of the Systematics of the Nearctic Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae).


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