Selection Experiments as a Tool in Evolutionary and Comparative Physiology: Insights into Complex Traits
Symposium organized by John G. Swallow and Theodore Garland, Jr.
Wednesday Jan. 7th
10:20 John G. Swallow and Theodore Garland, Jr. – “Selective Breeding and Laboratory Natural Selection Experiments: Definitions and Historical Perspective”
10:40 Marek Konarzewski, Aneta Ksiazek, Iwona Lapo – “Artificial Selection for Basal Metabolic Rate in Mice”
11:00 Lauren G. Koch and Steve L. Britton – “Artificial Selection for Intrinsic Aerobic Endurance-Running Capacity in Rats”
11:20 Theodore Garland, Jr. and J. G. Swallow – “Exercise Physiology of Mice Selected for High Voluntary Activity”
11:40 Justin S. Rhodes, Stephen C. Gammie, and Theodore Garland, Jr. – “Neurobiology of Mice Selected for High Voluntary Activity”
12:00 Coffee Break
Thursday Jan. 8th
8:20 Joe Travis, Charlie Baer, and Becky Fuller– “Which Experiment Did Our Selection Experiment Actually Perform: Working with Complex Traits in Fish”
8:40 Oyvind Overli, Tom G. Pottinger, and Svante Winberg – “Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Correlates of Artificial Selection for Stress Responsiveness in Rainbow Trout”
9:00 David N. Reznick – “Selection in Nature: Deliberate and Inadvertent Manipulations of Natural Populations”
9:20 Hilary S. Callahan, Massimo Pigliucci, Nile Kurashige – “Artificial Correlational Selection in Arabidopsis thaliana: What Else Changes When Shade-Avoidance Responses Are Altered?”
9:40 Michael R. Rose, Adam K. Chippindale, John P. Phelan, Margaret A. Archer, and Timothy J. Bradley. – “The Devil and the Evolutionary Physiology of Life-History in Drosophila“
10:00 Coffee Break
10:20 Donna G. Folk and Timothy J. Bradley – “Water balance and ion regulation in Drosophila melanogaster selected for enhanced desiccation resistance”
10:40 Gerald S. Wilkinson, Emily G. Amitin and Philip M. Johns – “Correlated responses to long-term artificial sexual selection in stalk-eyed flies”
11:00 Anthony J. Zera – “Artificial Selection as a Tool in Evolutionary Endocrinology: Direct and Correlated Responses to Selection on an Endocrine Regulatory Enzyme in an Insect”
11:20 Goggy Davidowitz, Derek A. Roff, and H. Fred Nijhout – “The Physiological Regulation of the Response to Selection of Body Size and Development Time in Manduca sexta“
11:40 Michele M. Riehle and Albert F. Bennett – “Differential Patterns of Gene Expression and Gene Complement in Laboratory-Evolved Lines of E. coli“
