Morphology – Morphology & Biomechanics Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 13:00 – 15:00 Room: La Galerie 6 Organizer(s): K. Autumn, J. R. Hutchinson Session Author(s) Title 8 SMITH, A. M.; PAWLICKI, J. M.; PEASE, L. B.; PIERCE, C. M.; STARTZ, T. P. Glue or slime: molluscan glue proteins that control gel mechanics 8 ROSS, C.F.*; METZGER, […]

Morphology – Feeding & Functional Morphology Day: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 08:00 – 11:40 Room: La Galerie 6 Organizer(s): M. W. O’Neill, C. F. Ross Session Author(s) Title 7 DURIE, Christopher J. Opercular-linkage disruption: a test of the four-bar linkage model 7 VAN WASSENBERGH, S.; AERTS, P.; HERREL, A.; ADRIAENS, D. A forward dynamic model of […]

Development – Larvae Dispersal & Feeding Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 08:00 – 12:00 Room: Balcony N Organizer(s): A. L. Moran, P. B. Marko Session Author(s) Title 67 PACE, D.A.*; MAXSON, R.E.; MANAHAN, D.T. High rates of protein synthesis and rapid ribosomal transit times at low energy cost in Antarctic echinoderm embryos 67 MORAN, A.L.*; MANAHAN, […]

Evolution – Evolutionary Ecology Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 08:00 – 12:00 Room: Balcony M Organizer(s): A. Herrel, J. L. Leonard Session Author(s) Title 66 ARENDT, Jeff The Proximate Determinates of Body Size in Spadefoot Tadpoles: cell size, cell number and functional consequences 66 GOMEZ-MESTRE, I.*; WARKENTIN, K.M. Embryo response to risk varies among species of […]

Evolution – Cladistics & Phylogenetics Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 08:00 – 11:40 Room: Balcony L Organizer(s): Y. J. Passamaneck, K. M. Halanych Session Author(s) Title 65 VOIGT, O.; COLLINS, A.G.; PEARSE , V.B.*; PEARSE, J.S.; SCHIERWATER, B. Placozoa: a phylum of one? 65 MIGLIETTA , M.P.; SCHUCHERT , P. The Phylogeny of the genus Turritopsis […]

Physiology & Biochemistry – Metabolism & Energetics Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 08:20 – 12:00 Room: Balcony K Organizer(s): S. R. McWilliams, C. C. Peterson Session Author(s) Title 64 GRAY , EM; BRADLEY, TJ Metabolic and Energetic Effects of Plasmodial Infection in Aedes aegypti 64 MOORE, F. B.-G.; BAGATTO, B. Evolutioary response to oxygen stress in […]

Morphology – Developmental Morphology & Morphogenesis II Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 10:20 – 11:40 Room: La Galerie 5 Organizer(s): G. Wagner, Session Author(s) Title 63 KOROPATNICK, T; KIMBELL, J. R.; MCFALL-NGAI, M. J. Bacteria-induced loss of ciliated epithelia: bacterial signal factors, hemocytes, and the light organ of a squid 63 BRISCOE, AD; SISON-MANGUS, MP Blue […]

Morphology – Functional Morphology Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 08:20 – 10:00 Room: La Galerie 5 Organizer(s): J. Kerfoot, M. N. Dean Session Author(s) Title 62 O’NEILL, M. W. *; GIBB, A. C. Unexpected feeding asymmetries in the hogchoker, Trinectes maculatus 62 FRANCIS, JR., A. W.* Feeding Functional Morphology and Biomechanics of Southern Flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma […]

Integrative & Comparative Issues – Biology Education & Teaching Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 08:00 – 12:00 Room: La Galerie 4 Organizer(s): M. P. Morse, M. J. Myers Session Author(s) Title 61 HURNEY, Carol A; BABCOCK, Sharon K; PESCE, Andrea A Novel, Integrative Approach to Introductory Biology 61 HIEBERT , S.M. Facts and more facts: using […]

Regulatory Biology – Comparative Endocrinology II: Invertebrate Day: Friday, Jan. 9, 10:20 – 12:00 Room: La Galerie 2 Organizer(s): S. J. Schoech, D. M. Reeder Session Author(s) Title 60 HOPKINS, P.M.; DURICA, D.S.; WU, X. Binding Properties of the crustacean ecdysteroid receptor UpEcR/RXR from the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator . 60 TAMONE, S.L.; DUTTON, J.M. […]