Complementary to Symposium: Understanding First Order Phenotypes: Transcriptomics for Emerging Model Systems – Part I Day: Friday, Jan. 4, 8:00 – 9:40 am Room: Yosemite C Organizer(s): Mikhail Matz Session Author(s) Title 10 PANKEY, MS*; OAKLEY, TH Parallel molecular signatures underlie convergent evolution in two bioluminescent squid 10 MATZ, MV*; KENKEL, CD; BAY, LK Gene […]

Special Symposium in Honor of Ken Nagy Day: Friday, Jan. 4, 7:50 am – Noon Room: Continental Ballroom 6 Organizer(s): Stephen Secor Session Author(s) Title 1 Nagy, KA Introduction 1 NAGY, KA Reflections and Projections on Becoming a Physiological Ecologist 1 COSTA, D.P.*; SCHWARZ, L.K.; MARESH, J.; ROBINSON, P.W.; CROCKER, D.E. A Bioenergetics Approach to […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013 January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: When Predators Attack: Sensing and Motion in Predator-Prey Interactions Predation is a fundamental interaction between organisms. It plays an important role in shaping community structure and has clear consequences for individual fitness, as it affects growth, reproductive output and survival. Despite a vast body […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013 January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Vertebrate Land Invasions – Past, Present, and Future Summary The transition from water to land was a major evolutionary event in vertebrate history that precipitated a sudden explosion of species diversity. This transition was by no means simple, with the first land animals encountering […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013 January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Understanding First Order Phenotypes: Transcriptomics for Emerging Model Systems Overview: Gene expression, a first order phenotype, is a phenotype that reflects the interaction of the genome and the environment. Due to recent advances in technology, this first order phenotype can now be studied in […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013 January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Physiological Responses to Simultaneous Shifts in Multiple Environmental Stressors: Relevance in a Changing World Understanding the impacts of global change on the distribution and abundance of organisms in the context of the natural environment is at the forefront of integrative organismal biology. Environmental physiologists […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Phenotypic plasticity and the evolution of gender roles In recent decades there has been a great deal progress in understanding the evolution of sexual phenomena; including sex ratio, sex determination, and sexual systems (e.g. hermaphroditism vs. dioecy). However, these phenomena have usually been considered in […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Keeping time during animal evolution: conservation and innovation of the circadian clock Diurnal and seasonal cues play critical and conserved roles in behavior, physiology, and reproduction in diverse animals. The circadian clock is a transcription-translation feedback loop that represents the molecular mechanism underlying many of […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013 January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Integrating genomics with comparative vision research of the invertebrates Vision research has traditionally played a significant role in integrative biology as a complete understanding of visual systems requires knowledge of physics, morphology, cellular and molecular biology, development, evolution, and ecology. However, advancement in the […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2013January 3-7, 2013 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Hormone-mediated sex ratio adjustment in vertebrates The sex ratio of a population is a major determinant of the population’s survival and the reproductive success of individuals within the population. The ability of an individual to adjust the sex ratios of the offspring they produce, or […]