Evolutionary Ecology Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:00 Room: Lonestar A Organizer(s): Patrick Kelly Session Author(s) Title 23 KELLY, PW*; PFENNIG, DW; PFENNIG, KS Sexual Selection and Adaptive Evolution in Variable Environments: Phenotypic Plasticity as a Good-Genes Effect 23 KING, RW*; WUND, MA; FOSTER, SA; BAKER, JA Salinity mediated shape plasticity in oceancic threespine stickleback 23 […]

Evolution of Behaviour Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:30-12:00 Room: Rooms 402-403 Organizer(s): Angela Freeman Session Author(s) Title 22 PHIPPS, N*; STEIN, LR; HOKE, K Genetic Background and Sexual Experience Jointly Determine Courtship Strategy 22 YOUNG, R/L*; HOFMANN, H/A Leveraging Network Analysis to Study the Evolution of Sociality in Vertebrates 22 CULUMBER, ZW Variation in Animal […]

Foraging: Memory and Mechanisms Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:00-12:00 Room: Rooms 201-202 Organizer(s): Caroline Strang Session Author(s) Title 21 MUTH, F*; FRANCIS, JS; LEONARD, AS Bumblebee cognition and the influence of anthropogenic stressors 21 STRANG, CG*; BROWN, EK; SHERRY, DF; HAMPTON, RR Memory systems in food-caching caching and non-caching birds 21 CADE, D E*; CAREY, […]

Population Variation in Life-history Traits Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:30-12:00 Room: Room 205 Organizer(s): Mark Garcia, Talene Yeghissian Session Author(s) Title 20 FUDICKAR, AM*; BREWER, DE Distance Matters: Experimental Test of the Influence of Avian Migration Distance on Readiness to Breed in Spring 20 DELCLOS, PJ*; MEISEL, RP Genotype-by-temperature effects on thermal preference in the […]

DEE Best Student Paper: Huey Award Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 08:00-10:00 Room: Lone Star B Organizer(s): Cameron Ghalambor Session Author(s) Title 2 KLEPAC, CN*; BARSHIS, DJ Decreased thermal tolerance in corals from high-frequency variable environments 2 POWERS, SD*; THOMPSON, LM; PARRY, D; GRAYSON, KL; AGOSTA, SJ Climate-related variation in metabolic rate across the geographic range […]

Connubiality, Conjugality, or Civil Union? Symbiotic Relationships Under Water and in the Air Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:00-11:00 Room: Rooms 303-304 Organizer(s): Kenneth Halanych Session Author(s) Title 19 HALANYCH, KM*; LI, Y; TASSIA, MG; WAITS, DS; BOGANTES, VE; DAVID, KT The Genome of Deep-Sea Seep-Dwelling Lamellibrachia luymesi (Siboglinidae) and Clues on Chemosynthetic Symbiosis 19 OHDERA, […]

Social Neuroethology Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:00-12:00 Room: Rooms 301-302 Organizer(s): Scott MacDougall-Shackleton Session Author(s) Title 18 ROGERS, LS*; VAN WERT, JC; MENSINGER, AF Multimodal sensory integration of the utricle in freely swimming toadfish, Opsanus tau 18 CLEMENTS, KN*; HEAGY, FK; BLAIN, E; WARD, J; ISSA, FA Repeated Social Defeat Affects Dopaminergic Modulation of Spinal […]

Sensing, Signaling and Transduction Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:15-12:00 Room: Lone Star H Organizer(s): James Newcomb Session Author(s) Title 17 HARRIS, OK; KINGSTON, ACN; STEICHMANN, NR; JOHNSEN, S; SPEISER, DI* How and why are the blue eyes of scallops blue? 17 HALL, BE*; BIGMAN, JS; BEDORE, CN Allometric relationships in the visual ecology of sharks […]

Undergraduate Education Success Stories Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:00-12:00 Room: Lone Star G Organizer(s): Christopher Martine, Jasmine Coyle Session Author(s) Title 16 ENGLISH, P; SILVERTHORN, DU* The Minimal Marking Technique: Grading Writing Assignments while Promoting Active Learning 16 YEN, J*; LI, W Bio Inspired Design: translating biology to engineering and design 16 PASK, GM Working […]

Rising Star in Organismal Botany Award Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 10:00-12:00 Room: Lone Star F Organizer(s): Janet Steven Session Author(s) Title 15 MORRISON , CR*; SMILEY , J Using a Portable Hydrogen Cyanide Gas Meter to Uncover a Dynamic Phytochemical Landscape 15 BLUMSTEIN, MB*; RICHARDSON, AR; WESTON, D; ZHANG, J; WELLINGTON, M; HOPKINS, R A […]