Meeting Abstract S1-9 Thursday, Jan. 4 13:30 – 14:00 Ecological Innovation in the Late Ediacaran TARHAN, LG*; DROSER, ML; GEHLING, JG; Yale University; University of California, Riverside; South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide lidya.tarhan@yale.edu The Ediacara Biota, Earth’s earliest communities of complex, macroscopic, multicellular organisms, appeared during the late Ediacaran Period, just prior to the Cambrian […]
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Early evolution of gene regulatory networks in metazoan development
Meeting Abstract S1-4 Thursday, Jan. 4 09:00 – 09:30 Early evolution of gene regulatory networks in metazoan development. FERNANDEZ-VALVERDE, Selene L.*; DEGNAN, Bernard M.; Unidad de Genómica Avanzada, Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (UGA-LANGEBIO), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico; School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia selene.fernandez@cinvestav.mx http://regrnalab.github.io/ Precise control of temporal and spatial […]
Apologies and prospects for metazoan phylogenetics in the genomic era
Meeting Abstract S1-2 Thursday, Jan. 4 08:00 – 08:30 Apologies and prospects for metazoan phylogenetics in the genomic era LAUMER, CE; EMBL-EBI claumer@ebi.ac.uk Despite the deluge of data generated by over a decade of highly parallel sequencing, molecular approaches to date have failed to deliver a fully-resolved metazoan phylogeny. Here, I attempt a partial explanation of this […]
Understanding the Causes of Diversity of a Multifunctional Structure the Case of Bark in Woody Plants
Meeting Abstract S1-4 Friday, Jan. 4 09:00 – 09:30 Understanding the Causes of Diversity of a Multifunctional Structure: the Case of Bark in Woody Plants ROSELL, JA; Instituto de Ecología, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México julieta.rosell@iecologia.unam.mx Most biological structures carry out multiple functions. Focusing on only one of these functions to make adaptive inferences overlooks that manifold […]
The distinct evolutionary trajectories of C4 and CAM photosynthesis
Meeting Abstract S1-12 Friday, Jan. 4 15:00 – 15:30 The distinct evolutionary trajectories of C4 and CAM photosynthesis EDWARDS, Erika J; Yale University erika.edwards@yale.edu http://edwardslab.org Evolutionary convergence provides a special opportunity to dissect the environmental and organismal context surrounding the repeated origins of similar features. Often times, convergence itself is phylogenetically patterned, with certain lineages having […]
Temporal Variation as a Driver of Species’ Distribution Patterns
Meeting Abstract S1-11 Friday, Jan. 4 14:30 – 15:00 Temporal Variation as a Driver of Species’ Distribution Patterns EMERY, NC*; LA ROSA, RJ; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Colorado Boulder Nancy.Emery@Colorado.edu https://www.colorado.edu/lab/emery/ Organisms exhibit diverse strategies for managing changes in their environment: some avoid it by specializing on subset of conditions, others rely on adaptive phenotypic […]
Synthesizing evolution and physiology using leaves, trees, and math
Meeting Abstract S1-7 Friday, Jan. 4 11:00 – 11:30 Synthesizing evolution and physiology using leaves, trees, and math MUIR, Christopher D; Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa cdmuir@hawaii.edu http://www.chrisdmuir.com Organismal biology often advances through two iterative stages: 1) analyzing models that integrate fundamental physical and chemical laws with biology to predict which phenotypes natural selection favors under what ecological […]
Plant Evolutionary Ecology In The Age Of The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Meeting Abstract S1-5 Friday, Jan. 4 09:30 – 10:00 Plant Evolutionary Ecology In The Age Of The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis OLSON, Mark E. ; Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México molson@ib.unam.mx http://explorelifeonearth.org Plant ecology is increasingly turning to evolutionary questions, just as evolutionary biology pushes out of the strictures of the Modern Synthesis into what some regard as […]
Functional Ontogeny and Morphological Evolution in Plant Reproductive Structures
Meeting Abstract S1-3 Friday, Jan. 4 08:30 – 09:00 Functional Ontogeny and Morphological Evolution in Plant Reproductive Structures LESLIE, Andrew B.*; LOSADA, Juan M.; Brown University andrew_leslie@brown.edu Form and function relationships are most often evaluated with regards to static functional roles, but these relationships may change over the lifetime of an organism or even its component parts. […]
Linking Plant Scaling Relationships and Ecology
Meeting Abstract S1-2 Friday, Jan. 4 08:00 – 08:30 Linking Plant Scaling Relationships and Ecology OGBURN, R.M.*; EDWARDS, E.J.; DONOGHUE, M.J.; Southern Utah University; Yale University; Yale University mattogburn@suu.edu Corner’s rules describe a set of plant morphological scaling relationships between leaves, twigs, and branching density. These scaling relationships are likely dictated by physiological and biomechanical constraints, and […]
