Meeting Abstract LBS4.1  Sunday, Jan. 6  The porcelain crab EST sequencing project STILLMAN, J.*; TAGMOUNT, A.; LINDQUIST, E.; WANG, M; San Francisco State Univ.; San Francisco State Univ.; Joint Genome Institute; Joint Genome Institute stillmaj@sfsu.edu The porcelain crab genus Petrolisthes is speciose (>100 species), with individual species distribution patterns across a wide range of ecological gradients. Physiologically, […]

Meeting Abstract LBS4.2  Sunday, Jan. 6  Salinity effects on gene expression patterns in gills of the green crab Carcinus maenas TOWLE, David W.*; TERWILLIGER, Nora B.; HENRY, Raymond P.; Mt. Desert Island Biological Lab.; Oregon Institute of Marine Biology; Auburn University dtowle@mdibl.org Osmoregulatory ion transport across crustacean gill epithelium is energized by basolateral Na+/K+-ATPase and is dependent […]

Meeting Abstract LBS4.4  Sunday, Jan. 6  Rapid evolution across independent invasions into novel environments LEE, Carol Eunmi; University of Wisconsin, Madison carollee@wisc.edu A fundamental unresolved problem in ecology and evolution regards the limits to species distributions. Invasive species provide powerful models for studying limits to species distributions and factors that allow those distributions to shift. Of the […]

Meeting Abstract LBS4.6  Sunday, Jan. 6  Global transcriptional profiles are molt-stage dependent in the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister PHILLIPS, M.R.*; TERWILLIGER, N.B.; JOHNSON, E.A.; Inst. Mol. Bio., Univ. Oregon, Eugene; Inst. Marine Bio., Univ. Oregon, Charleston; Inst. Mol. Bio., Univ. Oregon, Eugene mphilli4@uoregon.edu We have been using a functional genomics approach to investigate the molecular mechanisms that […]

Meeting Abstract LBS4.3  Sunday, Jan. 6  Ecological Challenges Shape the Daphnia Crustacean Genome JOHN COLBOURNE, K*; MICHAEL PFRENDER, E; JOE SHAW, R; DON GILBERT, G; THE DAPHNIA GENOMICS CONSORTIUM, ; The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana Univ.; Utah State Univ.; Indiana Univ.; Indiana Univ. jcolbour@cgb.indiana.edu Understanding the ecological context of genome function and evolution is a […]

Meeting Abstract LBS4.5  Sunday, Jan. 6  Amphipod Genomics and Development PATEL, N.H.; Univ. of California, Berkeley nipam@uclink.berkeley.edu My lab has been developing the amphipod crustacean, Parhyale hawaiensis, as a model system for the study of development and evolution in the malacostracan crustaceans. In addition to comparative studies of gene expression, we have developed methods to manipulate gene […]