Meeting Abstract S4-1.0  Thursday, Jan. 5  Introduction to the Symposium Lindsay, S

Meeting Abstract S4-1.6  Thursday, Jan. 5  Haplotypes, genetic distance and the inference of dispersal patterns using analysis of molecular variance BIRD, Christopher E*; TIMMERS, Molly A.; SMOUSE, Peter E.; TOONEN, Robert J.; University of Hawaii at Manoa; NOAA Honolulu; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; University of Hawaii at Manoa cbird@hawaii.edu Tracking the dispersal routes of […]

Meeting Abstract S4-1.1  Thursday, Jan. 5  Dispersal in Marine Organisms without a Pelagic Phase WINSTON, Judith E.; Virginia Museum of Natural History judith.winston@vmnh.virginia.gov In contrast to marine organisms whose offspring go through an extended planktonic stage, the young of others develop directly into benthic juveniles or have non-feeding larvae which spend only a few hours in the […]

Meeting Abstract S4-1.3  Thursday, Jan. 5  Dispersal capabilities, barophysiology and the evolution of Antarctic community structure THATJE, Sven; University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton svth@noc.soton.ac.uk The apparent scarcity of planktonic larval development in polar invertebrates has caused heated discussion amongst ecologists for most of the last century. In this paper […]

Meeting Abstract S4-1.6  Saturday, Jan. 5  Tools and pipelines for comparative genomics with application to evolution in Fungi STAJICH, JE*; JONESON, S; ABRAMYAN, J; AHRENDT, S; RAMAMURTHY, R; SAIN, D; SHIU, SH; ROSENBLUM, EB; Univ of California, Riverside; Univ of Wisconsin – Waukesha; Univ of British Columbia; Univ of California, Riverside; Univ of California, Riverside; Univ of […]

Meeting Abstract S4-1.1  Saturday, Jan. 5  RNAseq on draft genomes; perils and pitfalls JONES, Corbin; University of North Carolina cdjones@email.unc.edu High throughput genomic sequencing is revolutionizing biological research and is rapidly expanding the number of organisms with genomic and trancriptomic (RNAseq) data. These new sequencing technologies produce large numbers of short (<100 bp) reads, which are best […]

Meeting Abstract S4-1.4  Saturday, Jan. 5  RNA-seq for ecologists – fundamentals and practicalities WHEAT, Christopher W; Univ. of Helsinki, Finland chris@christopherwheat.net Recent advances in DNA sequencing now provide unprecedented access to the transcriptome of any species. However, extracting informative quantitative expression insights is challenging, especially for the ecological researcher. Why? 1) The studied organism is not likely […]

Meeting Abstract S4-1.5  Saturday, Jan. 5  Evolutionary and ecological genomics in a changing world: integrating Next-Gen data with environmental variation to reveal local adaptation PESPENI, M.H.; Indiana University mpespeni@indiana.edu Understanding how populations respond to and are shaped by their environment is of fundamental importance to revealing the mechanisms of local adaptation in general and for predicting the […]