Conservation Biology II Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 10:15-11:30 Room: 1B-C Organizer(s): Kathryn Smith, Stephen Kajiura Session Author(s) Title 76 SAVAYA ALKALAY, A.*; SAGI, A. RNAi-based monosex prawns as sustainable bio-control agents over expanding snail populations. 76 SLUTZKER, J.M.*; MOORE, P.A. You Shall Not Pass: Culverts As Mechanisms of Fragmentation of Crayfish Habitat 76 SMITH, K.E.*; […]

Coral Reef Biology I Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 10:15-11:45 Room: Ballroom C Organizer(s): Nathan Kirk, Cawa Tran Session Author(s) Title 75 TSOUNIS, G*; LASKER, H; EDMUNDS, PJ Octocoral success in degrading reefs: A case study in St John, US Virgin Islands 75 RUIZ-JONES, GJ*; PALUMBI, SR 5-day linear extension growth rates in corals living a […]

Behavioral Ecology Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-10:00 Room: 2F Organizer(s): Boris Krasnov Session Author(s) Title 74 KRASNOV, B.R.*; KHOKHLOVA, I.S. Ability to Discriminate Between Hosts and Reproductive Performance in Ectoparasites of Small Mammals 74 JACOBS, MW*; HEIN, SR; ODIERNO, JA Ontogeny of a Behavior: Decorating in Juvenile and Adult Decorator Crabs (Oregonia gracilis) 74 CAMPOS, […]

Evolution and Comparative Genomics: Vertebrates Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:45 Room: 2D Session Author(s) Title 73 PASSOW, C.N*; KELLEY, J.L; TOBLER, M Comparative transcriptomic analysis across four divergent ecotypes of an extremophile fish (Poecilia mexicana) 73 PRICE, E.R.*; ROTT, K.H.; CAVIEDES-VIDAL, E.; KARASOV, W.H. An approach for comparing qPCR data across species, applied to paracellular […]

Flight and Gliding Kinematics Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:45 Room: 2E Organizer(s): Nick Gravish Session Author(s) Title 72 GRAVISH, N*; CRALL, JD; MOUNTCASTLE, AD; WOOD, RJ; COMBES, S Data driven study of flight in aerial clutter 72 LAI, P.H.*; KONOW, N.; BOERMA, D.B.; SWARTZ, S.M. Skeletal Kinematics of the Shoulder in Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat 72 […]

Ocean Acidification Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:30 Room: 2C Organizer(s): Amy Maas Session Author(s) Title 71 BROTHERS, C.J.*; HARIANTO, J.; BYRNE, M.; MCCLINTOCK, J.B. The effects of ocean warming and acidification on the immune response of the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma 71 MAAS, AE*; BERGAN, AJ; LAWSON, GL; TARRANT, AM Response of the thecosome pteropod […]

Development & Evolution of Body Plans Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-10:00 Room: 2B Organizer(s): Ariel Chipman Session Author(s) Title 70 SCHIPPERS, KJ*; NICHOLS, SA Using sponges as a model to study the evolution of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway 70 RIVERA, AS*; HABERKERN, N; ARUL NAMBI RAJAN, A; POSFAI, D; HILL, A Elucidation of the Pax/Six […]

Evolutionary Morphology Day: Sunday, Jan. 4, 08:00-09:30 Room: 2B Organizer(s): Michelle Stocker, Casey Holliday Session Author(s) Title 7 ANDERSON, PSL*; PATEK, SN Mechanical redundancy, mechanical sensitivity and constraint in the evolution of the mantis shrimp raptorial appendage 7 BERGMANN, P.J. Patterns of convergence in the body shape of Squamate reptiles 7 COLLAR, DC*; WARD, AB; […]

Complementary to Breaking Boundaries Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:45 Room: 1L Organizer(s): Madanagopal Nalini, Wendy Smith Session Author(s) Title 69 OAKLEY, T.H. On homology of Pancrustacean Compound Eyes 69 LESSIOS, N*; COHEN, JH; RUTOWSKI, RL How do natural light environments maintain multiple-pigment Pancrustacean visual systems? An answer from branchiopod crustacean vision and behavior in desert […]

Ecotoxicology Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:15 Room: 1J-K Organizer(s): Takashi Maie, Sarah Woodley Session Author(s) Title 68 EDWARDS, D/D*; MOORE, P/A GO WITH THE FLOW: STREAMS FOLLOWING GEOMORPHIC FORM 68 MAIE, T Effects of contaminated water due to mining activities on the vertebrae in fishes: material testing and functional morphology as assessment tools for environmental […]