DIZ Symposium: Sponges: New Views of Old Animals Day: Thursday, Jan. 8, 08:00 – 12:00 Room: Balcony I Organizer(s): Scott Anthony Nichols, Gert Woerheide Symposium Author(s) Title S10-1 DEGNAN, BM; LEYS, SP; LARROUX, C; LIUBICICH, ; HINMAN, VF Developmental genes in sponges and the antiquity of animal development S10-1 REITNER, Joachim Sponges � A geobiological […]

DIZ Symposium: Model Systems for the Basal Metazoa: Cnidarians, Ctenophores, and Placozoans Day: Wednesday, Jan. 7, 08:00 – 12:00 Room: La Galerie 1 Organizer(s): Neil Blackstone, Symposium Author(s) Title S1-2 MARTINDALE, Mark Q Ctenophores: missing links or missing the boat? S1-2 JACOBS, David/K*; BEBENEK, Ilona/G; GATES, Ruth/D; LEE, Shannon/E Recovery of sine oculis in cnidarians […]

DIZ Symposium: Model Systems for the Basal Metazoa: Cnidarians, Ctenophores, and Placozoans Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00 – 12:00 Room: La Galerie 1 Organizer(s): Neil Blackstone, Symposium Author(s) Title S1-1 COLLINS, AG; MEDINA, M; COLLINS, JA; SCHIERWATER, B 28S rDNA Data Further Resolve the Phylogeny of Cnidaria S1-1 MCFADDEN, C.S.*; SANCHEZ, J.A.; FRANCE, S.C. The […]

Day: Thursday, Jan. 8, 15:20 – 17:30 Room: Exhibit Hall Session Author(s) Title P3 GOLDSTEIN, D. L.; KRANE, C.; FRISBIE, J.; RIVERA, K. Aquaporins in an amphibian that accumulates glycerol during cold acclimation. P3 HIEBERT , S.M.; PANNORFI, R.; LEININGER, E.; LE, L.; HUNERYAGER, R.; PIKE, E. Dietary lipids, temperature and melatonin: behavioral preference adjustments […]

Day: Wednesday, Jan. 7, 15:20 – 17:30 Room: Exhibit Hall Session Author(s) Title P2 HUNT, J.A.; FARRAR, E.S. Phenotypic plasticity of the digestive system of tadpoles in response to diet P2 BAUER, D. K.*; RUDNICK, D.; CULVER, C.; VELDHUIZEN, T.; TULLIS, R.; HIEB, K.; TSUKIMURA, B. The life history of Eriocheir sinensis in the San […]

Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 15:20 – 17:30 Room: Exhibit Hall Session Author(s) Title P1 RIFFELL, J.A.; KRUG, P.J.; ZIMMER, R.K. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of sperm chemoattraction for fertilization success P1 DAVIS, E. C. Odor tracking to a food source by the pulmonate gastropod Meridolum gulosum (Gould, 1864) from New South Wales, Australia P1 SANE, […]

Minisymposium in Honor of Marvalee Wake Part 2 Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 08:00 – 12:00 Room: La Galerie 3 Symposium Chair(s): K. Schwenk, W. K. Korff Symposium Author(s) Title MS-2 KORFF, W.K. Leapin’ Lizards!: A novel locomotor strategy utilized by lizards on sand? MS-2 BEMIS, W.E.; GIULIANO, A. Structure, Attachment, Replacement and Growth of Teeth […]

Minisymposium in Honor of Marvalee Wake Part I Day: Thursday, Jan. 8, 13:00 – 15:20 Room: La Galerie 3 Symposium Chair(s): J. Hanken, W. K. Korff Symposium Author(s) Title MS-1 HANKEN, J.*; PARRA-OLEA, G.; GARC�A-PAR�S, M.; WAKE, D.B. Cryptic diversity of miniaturized vertebrates: systematics of the Mexican salamander genus Thorius MS-1 SUMMERS, A.P.; WAKE, M.H. […]

Day: Wednesday, Jan. 7, 18:30 – 19:30 Room: Session Author(s) Title Howard Bern Lecture Nagahama, Y. Howard Bern Lecture: The Plasticity of Fish Gender: An Evolutionary Basis for Sex Determination and Differentiation in Vertebrates

Evolution – Phylogenetic Studies Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Balcony I Organizer(s): K.-P.K. Koepfli, J. L. Carlin Session Author(s) Title 9 CARLIN, Joel L. Phylogenetic relationships among groupers (Percoidei: Serranidae: Epinephelinae) 9 KIDD, M.R.; KOCHER, T.D. The Evolution of Male Bower Form Within Three Genera of Lake Malawi Cichlids 9 MAHON, Andrew […]