Meeting Abstract 100-5  Saturday, Jan. 6 14:30 – 14:45  Performance costs of adaptive resistance to tetrodotoxin in the Newt-Snake coevolutionary arms race DEL CARLO, RE*; REIMCHE, JS; HAGUE, MTJ; BRODIE,JR., ED; LEBLANC, N; FELDMAN, CR; Univ. of Nevada, Reno – School of Medicine; Univ. of Nevada, Reno; Univ. of Virginia; Utah State Univ.; Univ. of Nevada, Reno […]

Meeting Abstract 100-3  Saturday, Jan. 6 14:00 – 14:15  Not all heartbreak is the same: a cross-species analysis of cardiac electrical instabilities HERNDON, CJ*; FENTON, FH; Georgia Institute of Technology; Georgia Institute of Technology co.herndon@gmail.com The transmembrane voltage and intracellular calcium dynamics in cardiac muscle varies greatly across species. Through the use of high spatiotemporal resolution optical […]

Meeting Abstract 100-7  Saturday, Jan. 6 15:00 – 15:15  Fatty acids in muscle differ in turnover rates and response to exercise in Zebra Finch CARTER, W*; WHITEMAN, J; COOPER-MULLIN, C; NEWSOME, S; MCWILLIAMS, S; University of Rhode Island; University of New Mexico; University of Rhode Island; University of New Mexico; University of Rhode Island wales.carter@outlook.com Muscle fatty […]

Meeting Abstract 100-2  Saturday, Jan. 6 13:45 – 14:00  Copulation rates in anole lizards are correlated with muscle damage MARTIN, KS*; KAHRL, AF; IVANOV, BM; JOHNSON, MA; Karolinska Institutet; Stockholm University; Trinity University; Trinity University kyle.martin@ki.se http://ksm362.github.io/ One of the challenges in behavioral ecology is an accurate quantification of relatively rare or cryptic behaviors such as copulation. […]

Meeting Abstract 100-6  Saturday, Jan. 6 14:45 – 15:00  A role for titin in the activation-dependent shift of the force-length relationship in skeletal muscle. HESSEL, AL*; NISHIKAWA, KC; Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA alh385@nau.edu https://alhlabbench.wordpress.com/ Muscle function during submaximal activation is seldom studied, yet is more similar to in vivo muscle function than maximal activation. For […]

Meeting Abstract 100-1  Saturday, Jan. 6 13:30 – 13:45  A jumping frog musculoskeletal simulation powered by living muscle tissue RICHARDS, CT*; EBERHARD, EA; Royal Veterinary College; Royal Veterinary College ctrichards@rvc.ac.uk In vitro measurements reveal important muscle properties, yet their implications for animal performance are not obvious. How does neural stimulation affect jump performance? How do evolutionary transformations […]

Meeting Abstract 100-1  Sunday, Jan. 6 13:30 – 13:45  beta-catenin and Myosin II differentially regulate optic axon pathfinding and growth cone morphology in the optic tract ELUL, T*; HA, J; LAKHANI, F; BURKE, M; RADHIKA, R; REVELS, J; Touro University California tamira.elul@tu.edu The retino-tectal projection of lower vertebrates is an experimentally amenable neuronal circuit for studying mechanisms […]

Meeting Abstract 100-6  Sunday, Jan. 6 14:45 – 15:00  When Does A Bug Know That It Has Stepped On A Sticky Surface? LOUDON, C*; TRAN, K; KOK, C; Univ. of California, Irvine; Univ. of California, Irvine; Univ. of California, Irvine cloudon@uci.edu Insects associated with plants have had hundreds of millions of years to coevolve against plant defenses. […]

Meeting Abstract 100-4  Sunday, Jan. 6 14:15 – 14:30  The role of water and pheromones in mound-building behavior in termites RAMASWAMY, S.S; SANE, S.P.*; National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR sane@ncbs.res.in Mound-building termites construct build tall structures using the soil available from their surroundings. These mounds house their entire subterranean colony, which consists of a queen, who […]

Meeting Abstract 100-3  Sunday, Jan. 6 14:00 – 14:15  Solid and fluid mechanics in the skeleton: Dr. Mimi Koehl’s undergraduate biomechanics course and my research career in skeletal mechanobiology. MAIN, RP; Purdue University rmain@purdue.edu Every day I tap into the knowledge base that Dr. Mimi Koehl laid for me twenty years ago in her undergraduate biomechanics course, […]