SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Abstracts must be written in English. The deadline for abstract submission is March 15, 2010.

Authors can propose whether they wish to make an oral or poster presentation for each work. The organizing committee will select a limited number of oral contributions (15 minutes) based upon relevance to the program. The remaining contributions will be presented as posters.

Abstracts should be submitted in the following format:

  • The title of the abstract, names of the authors and their affiliations should be in bold
  • If more that one author, underline the name of the lecturer
  • Give the affiliations of the authors with numbers
  • Use: Times New Roman, 12, single space, alignment: justify
  • Use a single paragraph
  • Use no more than 1 page (ca. 300 words)
  • Do not give references or figures

 Example:

 Genetic analysis of lice supports direct contact between modern and archaic humans

 Reed, David L.1,3, Vincent S. Smith2, Shaless L. Hammond3, Alan R. Rogers4 & Dale H. Clayton3

 1Florida Museum of Natural History, Dickinson Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; 2Graham Kerr Building, DEEB, IBLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; 3Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 4Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Parasites can be used as unique markers to investigate host evolutionary history, independent of host data. Here we show that modern human head lice, Pediculus humanus, are composed of two ancient lineages, whose origin predates modern Homo sapiens by an order of magnitude (ca. 1.18 million years). One of the two louse lineages has a worldwide distribution and appears to have undergone a population bottleneck ca. 100,000 years ago along with its modern…………………..................................................

Some of the abstracts, which were submitted through the website, arrived to us in an unreadable form. We therefore request, from all of you who already submitted and those who are going to submit an abstract to sent also a copy by Email, either to Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu (kostam@cc.huji.ac.il) (human lice) or to Lajos Rozsa (lajos.rozsa@gmail.com) (animal lice).

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