Animal Communication Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:30 Room: B116 Organizer(s): Rindy Anderson, Bernie Lohr Session Author(s) Title 77 ANDERSON, R.C.*; SEWALL, K.B.; PETERS, S.; SOHA, J.A.; NOWICKI, S. Song as a signal of cognitive ability: effects of early developmental stress on problem solving and song learning in the zebra finch 77 MERRILL, L.*; NAYLOR, M.F.; […]

Thermal Physiology I Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:30 Room: B114 Organizer(s): Heather Liwanag, Sara Sawyer Session Author(s) Title 76 LIWANAG, HEM*; CALLEJAS, B; LABIB, G; PAULY, GB Thermal tolerance varies with age and gender for the nonnative Italian Wall Lizard (Podarcis sicula) in Southern California 76 TALBOT, WA*; WOLF, BO Thermoregulation in the heat: Sonoran […]

DEDB – Best Student Oral Presentation Competition Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-10:00 Room: B113 Organizer(s): Greg Davis Session Author(s) Title 75 BUSEY , HA*; ZATTARA, EE; MOCZEK, AP Getting a-head: Evolution and Development of Dorsal Head Patterning in Horned Beetles 75 MELICHER, D*; MEIER, R; SU, KFY; BOWSHER, JH Exploring the evolutionary history of a […]

Complementary to S4 Extrocular, Non Visual, and Simple Photoreceptors I Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:45 Room: B112 Organizer(s): Leslie Babonis Session Author(s) Title 74 BABONIS, L.S.*; MARTINDALE, M.Q. Seeing without eyes: Opsins and the evolution of photodetection in basal metazoans 74 MA, X.; JOHNSON, K.B.* A Comparative Study of Copepod Phototaxis: Modern vs. Ancestral Photic […]

Biomaterials and Mechanics Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:45 Room: B110/111 Organizer(s): Ross Hatton Session Author(s) Title 73 OTTO, A.W.; ELIAS, D.O.; HATTON, R.L.* Physical and Computational Models of Spider Web Vibrations 73 PORTER, M/M Biology for mechanical engineers: A new method for teaching biomimetics and bioinspired design 73 MAIE, T. Effects of contaminated water due […]

Complementary to S6 Evolutionary Endocrinology: Hormones as Mediators I Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:15-09:45 Room: A107-109 Organizer(s): Francis Bonier Session Author(s) Title 72 LEMA, SC*; CHOW, MI; RESNER, EJ; DITTMAN, AH; HARDY, KM Thyroid hormone signaling and phenotypic divergence in a desert pupfish: interactions among thermal experience, metabolism and morphology 72 SCHOENLE, LA*; MOORE, IT; […]

Flight: Performance, Aerodynamics, and Mechanics I Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:30 Room: A105 Organizer(s): Joesph Bahlman Session Author(s) Title 71 ORTEGA-JIMENEZ, VM*; DUDLEY, R Ascending Flight with Folded Wings: Gliding Deceleration of Anna’s Hummingbirds 71 WILCOX, SC*; CLARK, CJ Flight performance and sexual differences in black-chinned hummingbirds (Archilochus alexandri) 71 GROOM, DJE*; TOLEDO, MCB; WELCH […]

Variation and Adaptation Day: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 08:00-09:45 Room: A104 Organizer(s): Mikhail Matz, Mark Garcia Session Author(s) Title 70 MATZ, MV Extent and evolutionary significance of heritable variation in reef-building corals. 70 BENHAM, P.M.*; CHEVIRON, Z.A. Genetic divergence predicts the degree of divergence in renal traits of salt marsh Savannah Sparrows 70 GARCIA, MJ*; RODRIGUEZ, […]

Behavioral Syndromes Day: Monday, Jan. 4, 08:15-09:45 Room: B114 Organizer(s): Tina Wey Session Author(s) Title 7 MULLER, M S*; VYSSOTSKI, A; YAMAMOTO, M; YODA, K Individual differences in autonomic nervous activity during and after stress: implications for the study of personality 7 LOUISON, M.J.*; ADHIKARI, S.; SUSKI, C.D.; STEIN, J.A. The role of boldness and […]

Symbiosis Day: Tuesday, Jan. 5, 13:30-15:30 Room: C125/126 Organizer(s): Austin Parrin, Shelia Kitchen Session Author(s) Title 69 VELASCO, B.; CELA, B.; FIELDS, P. A.* Biochemical assessment of the coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis: Enzymes of each partner show evidence of adaptation to different thermal regimes 69 TIVEY, T.R.*; WAIANUHEA, L.K.; WEIS, V.M. Host Cell Division and Symbiont Population […]