Honest Signalling Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 1:00-3:00 pm Room: 103B Session Chair(s): Jerry Husak Session Author(s) Title 55 MCELROY, E*; MEYERS, J; IRSCHICK, D Linking badge morphology, performance, and field behavior in the ornate tree lizard, Urosaurus ornatus. 55 STEFFEN, John E*; MCBRAYER, Lance D UV-based dewlap color correlates with bite force in the Brown […]

Muscle Function Evolution Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 1:00-2:40 pm Room: 102C Session Chair(s): Stephen Kinsey Session Author(s) Title 54 HARDY, KM*; KINSEY, ST Morphological adaptations in large muscle fibers secondarily evolved for aerobic locomotor function 54 SCHACHAT, F. Evolution of Vertebrate Striated Myosins: Myosin Heavy Chain Diversity in Amphioxus 54 MOON, B.R.*; TULLIS, A The […]

Physiology and Genetics Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 1:00-3:00 pm Room: 102B Session Chair(s): Michael Shapiro Session Author(s) Title 53 SHAPIRO, M.D.*; SUMMERS, B.R.; BALABHADRA, S.; BELL, M.A.; KINGSLEY, D.M. Genetic origins of parallel evolution in threespine and ninespine stickleback fish 53 SINCLAIR, Brent J.*; ROBERTS, Stephen P.; GIBBS, Allen G. Gene transcription during exposure to, […]

Phenotypic Plasticity Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 1:00-3:00 pm Room: 102A Session Chair(s): Rachel Goodman Session Author(s) Title 52 WANG, G*; FRAZIER, MR Increased variation in extreme environmental conditions: Adaptive response or sampling artifact? 52 PRADA, Carlos*; SCHIZAS, Nikolaos; YOSHIOKA, Paul GENETIC VARIATION AND PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY OF THE GORGONIAN Plexaura flexuosa IN PUERTO RICO 52 KELLY, […]

Symbiosis Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 1:00-2:00 pm Room: 101C Session Chair(s): Sydney Pierce Session Author(s) Title 51 ESTES, Anne M. *; BRONSTEIN, Judith L.; PIERSON, Elizabeth A. Life in a fly: Exploring a variable endosymbiont environment 51 SOTO, W.*; NISHIGUCHI, M.K. Microbial Experimental Evolution in the Bobtail Squid-Vibrio Model System 51 PIERCE, S. K. **; […]

Defensive, Neural and Locomotor Morphology Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 8:00 am-Noon Room: 106C Session Chair(s): Aaron Krochmal, Frank Fish Session Author(s) Title 50 ADRIAENS, D*; BEKAERT, K Morphology and mechanism of the opercular spine locking apparatus in haematophagous candiru catfish 50 GEERINCKX, T.*; GENBRUGGE, A.; ADRIAENS, D. The erectile cheek-spine apparatus in the bristlenose catfish […]

Population Biology Speciation Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 10:20 am-Noon Room: 102C Session Chair(s): Michael McCartney Session Author(s) Title 5 MCCLEARY, R.J.R.*; OSTROW, D.G.; CLARK, A.M. Adapting Crotalus microsatellites for use in the Florida cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti 5 HUIZINGA, M.*; GHALAMBOR, C.K. Moving away from the mean: does trophic divergence in sympatric populations of the […]

Ecology and Environmental Biology Larval Ecology Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 8:00 – 11:40 am Room: 106B Session Chair(s): Kevin Fielman (8-10 am), Art Woods (10-Noon) Session Author(s) Title 49 BRODIE, R. *; GODLEY, J. the effect of summer storms on the recruitment success of fiddler crabs 49 MCDONALD, K.A.*; VAUGHN, D. Impacts of food concentration […]

Thermoregulation Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 8:00-11:40 am Room: 106A Session Chair(s): Loren Buck Session Author(s) Title 48 SFORMO, T*; BENNETT , VA; WALTERS , K; JEANNET, K; BARNES, B; DUMAN, J Overwintering Physiology of the Beetle Cucujus clavipes: Roles of Antifreeze Proteins, Polyols, and Dehydration 48 LIGHTON, J.R.B. Hot Flies: The Effects of Hypoxia on […]

Stress II Day: Saturday, Jan. 6, 8:00 am-Noon Room: 105C Session Chair(s): Luke Butler Session Author(s) Title 47 BUTLER, L K*; HAYDEN, T J; BISSON, I; WIKELSKI, M; ROMERO, L M Chronic stress and corticosterone: CORT response to seven days of rotating stressors in two free-living songbirds 47 WILLIAMS, J.B.*; ROBERTS, S.P.; ELEKONICH, M.M. Flight […]