ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 139 - Selection and adaptation I: Plants under environmental selection

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Santa Clara II, San Jose Hilton
1:30 PM
COS 139-1
Stress and domestication traits increase relative fitness of crop-wild hybrids
Kristin L. Mercer, The Ohio State University; David A. Andow, University of Minnesota; Donald L. Wyse, University of Minnesota; Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota
1:50 PM
COS 139-2
Independent evolution of suites of leaf and root functional traits in grassland plants
Steven W. Kembel, Université du Québec à Montréal
2:10 PM
COS 139-3
Evolution of a native blueberry (Vaccinium elliottii) in a spatially and temporally heterogeneous landscape
Jill T. Anderson, University of South Carolina
2:30 PM
COS 139-4
Effects of gene flow and local adaptation on the distribution of an intertidal alga
Cynthia G. Hays, University of California - Davis
2:50 PM
COS 139-5
A change in climate causes rapid evolution of multiple life-history traits in an annual plant
Steven J. Franks, Fordham University; Arthur E. Weis, The University of California Irvine
3:10 PM
COS 139-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 139-6
Red stems in Apocynum cannabinum plants under stress: Plasticity, genetic variation, and function
Dana A. Dudle, DePauw University; Allison C. Barnes, DePauw University; Erica J. Ross, DePauw University; David T. Furman, DePauw University; Lauren M. Guggina, DePauw University; Nicole R. Stone, DePauw University
3:40 PM
COS 139-7
Drought-induced differences in gene expression in parental and hybrid plants of the Piriqueta caroliniana complex
Heather E. Machado, Portland State University; Mitchell B. Cruzan, Portland State University
4:00 PM
COS 139-8
Responses to salinity in the freshwater marsh plant, Iris hexagona: Local adaptation or plasticity?
Sharmila Pathikonda, Arizona State University; Susan Mopper, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
4:20 PM
COS 139-9
Seasonal timing of rainfall influences hydraulic and leaf trait evolution in evergreen shrubs
Radika Bhaskar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, UNAM; Todd Dawson, University of California, Berkeley; David Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley
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