Session: Evolution: Selection And Adaptation I (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

1:30 PM

COS 12-1

Thermal adaptation alters the ecological role of consumer body size
Emma R. Moffett, University of Auckland; David C. Fryxell, University of Auckland; Eric P. Palkovacs, University of California, Santa Cruz; George L. W. Perry, University of Auckland; Kevin S. Simon, University of Auckland

1:50 PM

COS 12-2

Novel plant-microbial interactions: Rapid evolution of a legume-rhizobium mutualism in restored prairies
Susan M. Magnoli, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University

2:10 PM

COS 12-3

The thermal consequences of color evolution in White Sands Desert lizards
Alex R. Gunderson, University of California, Berkeley; Eric A. Riddell, Clemson University; Erica Bree Rosenblum, University of California, Berkeley

2:30 PM

COS 12-4

Rapid host-associated divergence in beak length and wing polymorphism of the red shouldered soapberry bug (Jadera haematoloma)
Mattheau S. Comerford, Rice University; Scott P. Egan, Rice University; Scott P. Carroll, Institute for Contemporary Evolution & UC Davis

2:50 PM

COS 12-5

Evolutionary responses of plasticity to biotic interactions
Shengpei Wang, Syracuse University; David M. Althoff, Syracuse University; Kari A. Segraves, Syracuse University

3:10 PM

COS 12-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 12-6

Effects of contemporary forest encroachment and pollinator movement on population structure of an alpine wildflower
Dustin G. Gannon, Oregon State University; Adam S. Hadley, Forest Biodiversity Research Network; Sarah J. K. Frey, Oregon State University; Matthew G. Betts, Oregon State University; F. Andrew Jones, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Oregon State University

3:40 PM

COS 12-7

Adaptation of snow leopards to high-altitude via regulatory changes in the hypoxia inducible pathway and potential ecological ramifications
Jan Janecka, Duquesne University; Charlotte Hacker, Duquesne University; Brionna Nelson, Duquesne University; Phylip Auron, Duquesne University; Sree Pulugulla, Duquesne University; William Murphy, Texas A&M University; Brian Davis, Texas A&M University; Rodney Jackson, Snow Leopard Conservancy; Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College; Bariusha Munkhtsog, Mongolian Academy of Sciences; Ghulam Muhammad, Project Snow Leopard

4:00 PM

COS 12-8

A novel latitudinal gradient in species traits: Increasing verticality towards the tropics
Brunno F. Oliveira, University of California Davis, University of Florida; Brett R. Scheffers, University of Florida

4:20 PM

COS 12-9

Examining sexual dimorphism of invasive snake Boa constrictor (Squamata:Boidae) in Puerto Rico
Aura Y. Muñiz, University Of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus; Maraliz Vega-Ross, University Of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus; Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, University Of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus

4:40 PM

COS 12-10

How mothers deal with unpredictable environments: The European common frog, Rana temporaria
Carolin Dittrich, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; Juliane Huster, University Bayreuth; Mark-Oliver Rödel, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB); Heike Feldhaar, University of Bayreuth

COS 12 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation I