COS 20 - Evolution

Tuesday, August 9, 2016: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
207/208, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
8:00 AM
A phylogenetic test of Bergmann’s rule in order Rodentia
Bader H. Alhajeri, Kuwait University; Scott J. Steppan, Florida State University
8:20 AM
Genetic structure of a source-sink metapopulation of a pollinating fig wasp
Xiao-Yong Chen, East China Normal University; Yuan-Yuan Ding, East China Normal University
8:40 AM Cancelled
COS 20-3
Consequences of 400 generations of thermal adaptation in a marine diatom and implications for rapid evolution in response to global change (widthdrawn)
Daniel R. O'Donnell, Michigan State University; Carolyn R. Hamman, University of Miami; Evan Johnson, Kalamazoo College; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University
9:00 AM
Evolution of metamorphosis in species with an ontogenetic diet shift
Hanna ten Brink, University of Amsterdam; André M. de Roos, University of Amsterdam; Ulf Dieckmann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
9:20 AM
Positive frequency dependent selection's influence on forewing pattern in aposematic Alaskan wood tiger moth populations
Robert H. Hegna, Palm Beach Atlantic University, University of Jyvaskyla; Johanna Mappes, University of Jyvaskyla
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Your history affects your future: Variation in response of corals to vermetid gastropods
Anya L Brown, University of Georgia; Craig W. Osenberg, University of Georgia
10:10 AM
Extensive phenotypic variation in Caribbean acroporid coral hybrids is likely a mechanism for adaptation to changing environments
Nicole D. Fogarty, Nova Southeastern University; Morgan V. Hightshoe, Nova Southeastern University; Iliana B. Baums, Pennsylvania State University; Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa; Megan E. Bock, Nova Southeastern University
10:30 AM
Predictors of the correlation between sexual reproduction and infection: A meta-analysis of the Red Queen Hypothesis
Meredith A. Krause, University of South Florida; Marc J. Lajeunesse, University of South Florida
10:50 AM
Dissolved organic carbon drives sexual signal variation among Bahamian mosquitofish populations
Sean T. Giery, North Carolina State University; Craig A. Layman, North Carolina State University
11:10 AM
Examining selection and rapid evolution in an experimentally introduced population of Brassica rapa
Michael R. Sekor, Fordham University; Steven J. Franks, Fordham University
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