Meeting Abstract 110-7  Monday, Jan. 7 09:15 – 09:30  Diet Switching in mammalian herbivores: differential tolerances of two woodrat species and their hybrids to toxic diets ORR, TJ*; YAMADA, KY; SHAPRIO, M; DEARING, MD; University of Utah; Auburn University; University of Utah; University of Utah teri.orr@utah.edu Herbivores confront the possibility of being poisoned by their food, which […]

Meeting Abstract 110-4  Monday, Jan. 7 08:45 – 09:00  Did pathogens facilitate the rise of endothermy? LOGAN, ML; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute mike.logan1983@gmail.com http://www.evolutioninthetropics.com The evolutionary success of endothermy is an enduring enigma. The energetic cost of maintaining a constant, high internal body temperature is so severe that endotherms must consume as much as thirty times the […]