Meeting Abstract 111.2 Sunday, Jan. 6 Maternal effects on cloning frequency, larval development and juvenile size in the sea star Asterias forbesi BLACKBURN, HN*; ALLEN, JD; College of William and Mary hnblackburn@email.wm.edu A fundamental life-history trade-off occurs between the size and number of offspring that a female produces. Traditionally, biologists have assumed that there is a species-specific […]
sessions: Session 111
Color vision in coral larvae Insights into settlement behavior and possible function of fluorescent proteins
Meeting Abstract 111.5 Sunday, Jan. 6 Color vision in coral larvae? Insights into settlement behavior and possible function of fluorescent proteins STRADER, ME*; MATZ, MV; University of Texas at Austin strader@utexas.edu Corals express multiple GFP-like fluorescent proteins (FPs) that result in an array of phenotypes within and between species. The suggested functions of fluorescent proteins range from […]
Assessing effects of starvation-induced morphological variations on swimming of larval sand dollars with a novel biomechanical model and video motion analysis
Meeting Abstract 111.4 Sunday, Jan. 6 Assessing effects of starvation-induced morphological variations on swimming of larval sand dollars with a novel biomechanical model and video motion analysis CHAN, KYK*; GRUNBAUM, D; Univ. of Washington; Univ. of Washington kychan@uw.edu Morphologies of planktonic larvae of many marine invertebrates are complex and highly variable. Larval morphologies impose biomechanical constraints on […]
Transmission of Raccoon Roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis, through the deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus
Meeting Abstract 111.2 Tuesday, Jan. 7 08:15 Transmission of Raccoon Roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis, through the deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus WEINSTEIN, S.B.; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara sara.weinstein@lifesci.ucsb.edu Parasites frequently move through a specific sequence of hosts in order to complete their lifecycles. Unlike many other parasites with complex life cycles, Baylisascaris procyonis can infect its final host […]
Nematode worms infect, but do not manipulate, sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti)
Meeting Abstract 111.4 Tuesday, Jan. 7 08:45 Nematode worms infect, but do not manipulate, sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti) JOSEPH, M*; FAULKES, Z; The University of Texas-Pan American; The University of Texas-Pan American zfaulkes@utpa.edu Sand crabs (Albuneidae) are a cosmopolitan group of crustaceans, but because they spend most of their time submerged in sand, their ecology is little […]
High Gill Parasite Abundance and its Effects on Behavior and Morphology of Fundulus heteroclitus
Meeting Abstract 111.5 Tuesday, Jan. 7 09:00 High Gill Parasite Abundance and its Effects on Behavior and Morphology of Fundulus heteroclitus SANTIAGO BASS, C.; Kaplan University, Ft. Lauderdale csantiagobass@kaplan.edu Parasites have been shown to affect various aspects of host functioning including behavior, morphology, growth, fecundity and survival. Although parasite-induced behavioral changes have been described for several parasite-host […]
Breeding behavior is associated with sex-biased parasitism in the red-spotted newt
Meeting Abstract 111.7 Tuesday, Jan. 7 09:15 Breeding behavior is associated with sex-biased parasitism in the red-spotted newt HANNINEN, A.F.*; THOMASON, C.B.; GABOR, C.R.; ALTIZER, S.; University of Virginia; Texas Tech University; Texas State University; University of Georgia amanda.hanninen@gmail.com There are two prevailing hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the persistence of male-biased parasitism among vertebrates. […]
Blood parasites and the side-blotched lizards do the parasites drive negative frequency dependent cycles of three throat color morphs
Meeting Abstract 111.3 Tuesday, Jan. 7 08:30 Blood parasites and the side-blotched lizards: do the parasites drive negative frequency dependent cycles of three throat color morphs? PARANJPE, D.A.*; MEDINA, D.; COOPER, R.; SINERVO, B.; Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; Univ. of California, Santa Cruz dhana4shree@gmail.com We report, […]
Vision-based flight control of lateral perturbations in hawkmoths
Meeting Abstract 111.5 Wednesday, Jan. 7 02:30 Vision-based flight control of lateral perturbations in hawkmoths MULLER, T.*; TAYLOR, G.K.; Animal Flight Group, University of Oxford, UK; Animal Flight Group, University of Oxford, UK tonya.muller@zoo.ox.ac.uk http://flight.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/mueller The aim of this study is to link the optomotor response of tobacco hawkmoths Manduca sexta to their lateral flight dynamics. Using […]
Sinus hair sensing in forelimb positional control during the locomotion of rats (Rattus norvegicus, Rodentia)
Meeting Abstract 111.4 Wednesday, Jan. 7 14:15 Sinus hair sensing in forelimb positional control during the locomotion of rats (Rattus norvegicus, Rodentia) NIEDERSCHUH, S. J.*; SCHMIDT, M.; HELBIG, T.; WITTE, H.; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany; University of Technology Ilmenau, Germany sandra.niederschuh@uni-jena.de Facial (mystacial) vibrissae, a kind of sinus hairs within the group of tactile hairs, have been intensively […]
