The Evolution of Thermal Reaction Norms
for Growth Rate and Body Size in Ectotherms
Symposium organized by Michael J. Angilletta Jr.
Preliminary Schedule
Day 1 8:20 Opening Remarks-Mike Angilletta 8:30 Kyle Ashton 9:00 George Gilchrist 9:30 Wolf Blanckenhorn 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Goggy Davidowitz 11:00 Brian Bayne 11:30 Mike Sears 12:00 Discussion 12:30 Lunch Day 2 8:30 Jan Kozlowski 9:00 David Conover 9:30 Joel Kingsolver 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Karl Gotthard 11:00 Jamie Gillooly 11:30 Mike Angilletta 12:00 Discussion 12:30 Lunch
Participants & Titles of Presentations:
Kyle G. Ashton, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
http://www.archbold-station.org/abs/staff/kashton/kashton.htm
Are there general body size-latitude (and temperature) trends in vertebrates?
George W. Gilchrist, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Is plasticity an adaptation? Body size as a function of temperature within and among parallel clines in Drosophila subobscura
Wolf Blanckenhorn, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.unizh.ch/zoolmus/eAbteilung_Ward.html#Blanckenhorn
Bergmann’s rule, the converse and countergradients: clinal body size variation in the yellow dung fly
Goggy Davidowitz, University of Arizona, Tucson
The Phsyiological Basis of Reaction Norms: Where Developmental Rate and Duration of Development Connect
Brian L. Bayne, retired, United Kingdom
Environmental and genetic correlates of growth plasticity in bivalve mollusks
Michael W. Sears, Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Geographic variation in growth and body size in squamate reptiles: patterns and processes
Jan Kozlowski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
The meaning of terms “growth rate” and “adult size” in determinate and indeterminate growers
David O. Conover (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Countergradient variation and the evolution of growth rate: lessons from silverside fishes
Joel G. Kingsolver, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/kingsolver
Genetic variation and selection on size and growth in fluctuating thermal environments
Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.unine.ch/zool/leae/staff/karl_gotthard.html
Optimal body size and growth strategies in temperate butterflies
James F. Gillooly, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The central role of metabolism from genes to ecosystems
Michael J. Angilletta Jr. (Indiana State University, Terre Haute)
http://oeb.indstate.edu/faculty/Angilletta.htm
Temperature, growth rate, and body size in ectotherms: fitting pieces of a life-history puzzle