Morphology Growth and form 2 Day: Jan. 5 (Sun) Room: Dominion South Organizer(s): A. Johnson Session Author(s) Title 13.1 MITCHELL, RM; MAIN, R; BIEWENER, AA Scaling Patterns in Avian Limb Bone Development 13.2 CHRISTIANS, JK *; BINGHAM, V; KEIGHTLEY, PD Fine-mapping of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) affecting skeletal size in mice 13.3 BOWEN, K.D. […]

Morphology Growth and form 1 Day: Jan. 5 (Sun) Room: Dominion South Organizer(s): A. Johnson Session Author(s) Title 12.1 JOHNSON, AS*; ELLERS, O; WINDECKER, L Power Law Scaling of Growth in Sea Urchins 12.2 SHERRARD, K.M. The biomechanics and ontogeny of fatal constipation in the brooding sea squirt Corella inflata 12.3 DIMOCK, RV, Jr*; ALDRIDGE, […]

Morphology Functional morphology Day: Jan. 5 (Sun) Room: Dominion South Organizer(s): S. Herring, P. Bergmann Session Author(s) Title 11.1 OCONNOR, P.M. Pulmonary Pneumaticity in the Postcranial Skeleton of Extant Anseriforms 11.2 BERGMANN, P.J.*; RUSSELL, A.P. Growth of the original tail in iguanian lizards: Are segmental patterns of growth conserved? 11.3 RAFFERTY, K.L.; HERRING, S.W.* In […]

Morphology Functional morphology, muscle Day: Jan. 5 (Sun) Room: Dominion South Organizer(s): A. Ahn, J. Monroy Session Author(s) Title 10.1 WOODEN, K.M.; WALSBERG, G.E. Temperature independent muscle function in a heterothermic mammal 10.2 MONROY, JA; NISHIKAWA , KC Modulation of muscle pre-activation as a function of prey distance in freely behaving toads 10.3 LAPPIN, A.K.*; […]

Development Larval biology/ecology/transitions Day: Jan. 5 (Sun) Room: Garden 10/11 Organizer(s): B. Pernet, G. Wagner Session Author(s) Title 1.1 LASKER, H.R.*; GUTIERREZ-RODRIGUEZ, C. Fertilization and local gamete dispersion in a surface brooding gorgonian 1.2 MCGHEE, Katie/E Indiscriminate fusion of swimming sponge larvae 1.4 REITZEL, Adam M; MINER, Benjamin G Transitions in Marine Invertebrate Life Histories: […]

Selection and Evolution of Performance in Nature Organized by Joel Kingsolver (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Ray Huey (University of Washington, Seattle)   Participants and titles: Steve Arnold: Performance Landscapes and Fitness Landscapes Department of Zoology 3029 Cordley Hall Oregon State University 97331-2914 phone: 541 737-4362 email: arnolds@bcc.orst.edu website: http://www.onid.orst.edu/~arnoldst/ Martin Wikelski: Morphology, […]

The topic of the symposium will be the mechanisms by which organisms develop multiple phenotypes from single genotypes. The genetics and possible adaptivity of plasticity have been recent topics of interest. The physiology underlying plasticity, in contrast, has received less attention, despite the fact that this level of organization might reveal more general patterns. The […]

Patterns and Processes in the Evolution of Fishes Symposium organized by Francesco Santini and Gustavo Ybazeta Department of Zoology, University of Toronto Ramsay Wright Zoological Laboratories, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, M5S 3G5, Canada Fax: ++1-416-978 8532 Email: fsantini@zoo.utoronto.ca, gybazeta@zoo.utoronto.ca. Fishes comprises over 50% of all described species of vertebrates. They are present in, and constitute […]

NSF Integrated Research Challenge in Environmental Biology (IRCEB): Biological Stoichiometry from Genes to Ecosystems Symposium organized by Jon Harrison The National Science Foundation has made a significant commitment to funding collaborative proposals aimed at promoting research that integrates across multiple levels of biological organization and across diverse types and habitats of organisms (Integrative Research in […]

Flash Communication: Fireflies at Fifty Symposium organized by Jonathan Copeland and Albert Carlson Sponsored by the National Science Foundation A. Introduction by James F. Case and Frank E. Hanson: The Contributions of John and Elisabeth Buck to Firefly Biology B. Cell/Molecular Approaches: (Moderated by Helen Ghiradella) Helen Ghiradella, SUNY Albany: The mystery of firefly flash […]