Morphological Evolution Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 10:00-11:40 AM Room: Club South Organizer(s): Joshua Gross, Kenneth Angielczyk Session Author(s) Title 102 CAPLINS, S. A.; NORENBURG, J. L.; TURBEVILLE, J. M.* Molecular and Morphological Variation in the Barnacle Predator Nemertopsis bivitatta (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea) 102 GROSS, Joshua B.*; WILKENS, Horst Evolution of albinism in a captive population of […]

Macroevolution and Systematics Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 8:00-9:40 AM Room: Club South Organizer(s): Graham Slater, Liam Revell Session Author(s) Title 101 CHANG, J*; ROY, K; EASTMAN, JM; SMITH, SA; SANTINI, F; BAUM, JK; HASTINGS, PA; SIDLAUSKAS, BL; ALFARO, ME Phylogenetic clustering of commercially exploited fish species 101 SLATER, G.J.*; HARMON, L.J.; ALFARO, M.E. FOSSILS, MOLECULAR […]

Behavioral Ecology: Foraging & Diet Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 10:20 AM-Noon Room: Ballroom C3 Organizer(s): Vonnie Shields Session Author(s) Title 100 BOYLE, W.A.*; WINKLER, D.W.; GUGLIELMO, C.G. Female Tree Swallows modulate fat and lean mass in anticipation of increased foraging costs of chick rearing 100 ORR, T.J.*; HAMMOND, K.A.; ORTEGA, J. The effects of reproductive […]

Immunology: Fungal Infections Day: Wednesday, Jan. 4, 10:20 AM-Noon Room: Club North Organizer(s): James Adelman, Louise Rollins Session Author(s) Title 10 FITES, J. Scott; RAMSEY, Jeremy P.; ROLLINS-SMITH, Louise A.* Paralysis of amphibian lymphocyte functions by products of the chytrid fungus, Batrachocytrium dendrobatidis 10 PETERSON, J.D.*; STEFFEN, J.; POHLMAN, W.; MCDONALD, M.; APPEL, A.; COBINE, […]

Evolutionary Morphology – Fish Feeding Day: Wednesday, Jan. 4, 8:00-9:40 AM Room: Ballroom B Organizer(s): Andrew Clark Session Author(s) Title 1 CLARK, A/J*; SUMMERS, A/P Ontogenetic scaling of the morphology and biomechanics of the feeding apparatus in the Pacific hagfish Eptatretus stoutii 1 FULLER, P. O.*; TAKADA, T.; OUFIERO, C. E.; WAINWRIGHT, P. C. The […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2012 January 3-7, 2012 Charleston, SC Symposium: The Impacts of Developmental Plasticity on Evolutionary Innovation and Diversification Symposium Overview Developmental plasticity – the phenomenon by which individuals respond, often adaptively, to changes in environmental conditions – has long been considered as an important facilitator of evolutionary change. Yet, the conditions that allow […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2012 January 3-7, 2012 Charleston, SC Symposium: Poecilogony, polymorphism or polyphenism: A window on larval evolutionary transitions in marine invertebrates. Brooded larvae of Pygospio elegans, a poecilogonous polychaete (J. Kesäniemi) Poecilogonous species are capable of producing different larval forms (e.g., free-swimming, planktotrophic larvae as well as brooded, lecithotrophic larvae in marine invertebrates). […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2012January 3-7, 2012 Charleston, SC Symposium: Novel methods for the analysis of animal movement: spatial and temporal structure across scale Overview Many branches of biology, ranging from ecology to neuroscience, share the need for accurate measurements of motion. Advances in computer vision, satellite tracking, radar and other technologies are providing large volumes […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2012 January 3-7, 2012 Charleston, SC Symposium: New Frontiers from Marine Snakes to Marine Ecosytems An olive seasnake (Aipysurus leavis) swims over part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Photograph courtesy of Vimoksalehi Lukoschek Summary: This Symposium is intended to highlight new and current research on marine snakes including associated ecological […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2012 January 3-7, 2012 Charleston, SC Symposium: Mangrove ‘Killifish’: an Exemplar of Integrative Biology Photo captions left to right, top to bottom: Dr. Earley checking traps in the mangroves; embryos from mutagenesis screen; adult hermaphrodite; adult male; terrestrial hermaphrodite in mangrove log; and mid-gastrula stage/yolk syncytium formation (light microscopy on left, sytox […]