2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 28 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation II

Tuesday, August 7, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
254, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:00 AM
Heritability of morphological variation in the Stephanodiscus niagarae complex (Thalassiosiraceae: Bacillariophyta)
Trisha Spanbauer, University of Texas at Austin; Edward C. Theriot, University of Texas at Austin
8:20 AM
Competitively mediated selection in Great Speciators
Darren P. O'Connell, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin; David J. Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin; Naomi Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin; Adi Karya, Universitas Halu Oleo; Kangkuso Analuddin, Universitas Halu Oleo; Nicola M. Marples, Trinty College Dublin, the University of Dublin
8:40 AM
Behavioral adaptations of scatterhoarders to winter flooding that affects their stored food
Sarah Wilson, Auburn University; Todd Steury, Auburn University; Robert Gitzen, Auburn University
9:00 AM
Sexual conflict halt population differentiation in a polymorphic diving beetle
Lars Lønsmann Iversen, Arizona State University, University of Copenhagen; Erik Svensson, Lund University; Johannes Bergsten, Swedish Museum of Natural History; Søren Thromsholdt Christensen, University of Copenhagen; Kaj Sand-Jensen, University of Copenhagen
9:20 AM
Fitness estimation for ecological studies
F. Stephen Dobson, Auburn University; Vincent A. Viblanc, Université de Strasbourg
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Transcriptomics of a developmental series provides insights into color and pattern development in a polytypic species
Adam M. M. Stuckert, East Carolina University; Tyler Linderoth, University of California Berkeley; Matthew MacManes, University of New Hampshire; Rasmus Nielsen, University of California Berkeley; Kyle Summers, East Carolina University
10:10 AM
Using whole exome sequencing to reveal genetic mechanisms of persistence in the critically-endangered Panamanian golden frogs (Atelopus varius and Atelopus zeteki)
Allison Q. Byrne, UC Berkeley; Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, University of Pittsburgh; Jamie L Voyles, University of Nevada, Reno; Ke Bi, University of California, Berkeley; Erica Bree Rosenblum, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 AM
Double-edged effect of dormancy on rapid evolution: Contemporary evolution meets storage effect
Masato Yamamichi, University of Tokyo; Stephen Ellner, Cornell University; Nelson G. Hairston Jr., Cornell University
10:50 AM
Plastic prairie: Gentic diversity and adaptation within dominant blue grama grass
Ava M. Hoffman, Colorado State University; Julie A. Bushey, Colorado State University; Troy W. Ocheltree, Colorado State University; Melinda Smith, Colorado State University
11:10 AM
Are insular cotton rats unique? A genetic test of evolutionary distinction of Sigmodon hispidus insulicola
Wesley W. Boone IV, University of Florida; Robert A. McCleery, University of Florida; James D. Austin, University of Florida
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