What I Need: a Good Immune Defense Day: Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:15-10:00 Room: Rooms 301-302 Organizer(s): Catherine Tylan, Katherine Buckley Session Author(s) Title 41 DEARBORN, DC*; WARREN, S; HAILER, F Meta-analysis of Diversity and Selection at MHC Class II A Genes: the Neglected Half of the Vertebrate Immune System’s Heterodimer 41 TYLAN, C*; LANGKILDE, T […]

Walking in Water Day: Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:00-09:45 Room: Lone Star G Organizer(s): Amanda Palecek, Melina Hale Session Author(s) Title 40 HALE, ME*; GOOLSBEE, AW Substrate-based locomotion in young octopuses. 40 HEYDARI, S*; PO, T; MCHENRY, MJ; KANSO, E Sea Star Inspired Crawling and Bouncing 40 GASSLER, TR*; FLAMMANG, BE Animated “Foot” Control During Walking […]

Living in Syrup: Dealing with Viscosity Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 08:00-09:30 Room: Lone Star E Organizer(s): Julie Cass, Terry Dial Session Author(s) Title 4 DIAL, TR*; LAUDER, GV Longer Development Provides First-Feeding Fish with the Jaw Kinematics to Escape Hydrodynamic Constraints 4 MATTHEWS, DG*; DIAL, TR; LAUDER, GV Suction feeding in zebrafish is improved by […]

DNNSB Best Student Paper Day: Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:00-10:00 Room: Lone Star F Organizer(s): Mike Baltzley Session Author(s) Title 39 DOLPHIN, KE*; FISCHER, EK; HUGHES, KA; HOKE, KL What in your right mind would make you do that!? Identifying neural components of courtship decisions 39 DUNCAN, CM*; CHRISTIAN, H; CHMURA, H; BUCK, CL; BARNES, BM; […]

Fire When Ready: Muscle Activity Day: Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:00-09:30 Room: Lone Star E Organizer(s): David Carrier Session Author(s) Title 38 RICE, N*; JEONG, S; NISHIKAWA, K How do Muscle Length and Activation Interact to Determine Muscle Force Production? 38 JIMENEZ, YE*; BRAINERD, EL Regionalized contributions of the epaxial musculature to swimming and suction feeding […]

Macroevolution and Evolutionary Paleobiology Day: Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:00-10:00 Room: Lone Star C Organizer(s): Tom Stewart Session Author(s) Title 37 CHAPMAN, BR*; WILSON, LE Predicting habitat preferences of Hesperornis (Aves: Hesperornithiformes) in the Western Interior Seaway through occupancy modeling 37 STOCKER, MR*; NESBITT, SJ; ANGIELCZYK, K; SIDOR, C; FORTNER, J; OLROYD, S; LUNGMUS, J; SMITH, […]

Comparative Genomics and Phylogenetics in Vertebrates Day: Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:00-09:30 Room: Lone Star B Organizer(s): Dave Blackburn Session Author(s) Title 36 HILL, EC*; JARMAN, MJ; BUTLER, MA The Resolution Solution: Increasing Nodal Support in the Problematic Phylogeny for a Large Adaptive Radiation of Papuan Asterophryne Frogs 36 BLACKBURN, DC*; NIELSEN, SV; BAREJ, M; RöDEL, […]

Complementary to S3: Biology at the Cusp: Teeth as a Model Phenotype for Integrating Developmental Genomics, Biomechanics, and Ecology Day: Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:00-10:00 Room: Lone Star A Organizer(s): Natasha S. Vitek, Tyler A. Square Session Author(s) Title 35 BURROUGHS, RW Modeling rodent tooth morphogenesis reveals constraints on mammalian tooth evolution 35 BIRLENBACH, DM*; KELLER, […]

Comparative Genomics and Phylogenetics of the Spineless Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:30 Room: Rooms 402-403 Session Author(s) Title 34 SPAGNA, JC*; ESPINOSA, AJ; CREWS, SC Grass Spiders of North America and Europe: A Long-Distance Relationship Lasting 50 Million Years 34 YAP-CHIONGCO, MK*; VARNEY, RM; KOCOT , KM What the Shell-less Aplacophorans Can Tell us About […]

Plasticity Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:15 Room: Rooms 201-202 Organizer(s): David Coughlin, Javier Mendez Narvaez Session Author(s) Title 33 MENDEZ-NARVAEZ, J*; WARKENTIN, K Nitrogen Excretion Plasticity and Reproductive Colonization of Land by Frogs: Multiple Strategies to Avoid Ammonia Toxicity 33 FOSTER, S A*; BAKER, J A Plasticity and the Origin of Evolutionary Pattern 33 ROSSO, […]