SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract 22-4 Sat Jan 2 An evaluation of ontogenetic allometry of defensive and feeding efficiency properties of skeletal components of the regular sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus Edwards, RA*; McClintock, JB; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; University of Alabama […]
sessions: Session 22
Variation in Animal Personality Across a Major Environmental Gradient
Meeting Abstract 22-3 Saturday, Jan. 4 11:00 – 11:15 Variation in Animal Personality Across a Major Environmental Gradient CULUMBER, ZW; University of Alabama in Huntsville zwc0001@uah.edu Theory indicates that animal personality should arise in association with predictable life history trade-offs. Environmental gradients are common in the wild and generate predictable trade-offs, yet we have limited knowledge of […]
The evolution of cognition and behavior during a natural biological invasion
Meeting Abstract 22-4 Saturday, Jan. 4 11:15 – 11:30 The evolution of cognition and behavior during a natural biological invasion BENSKY, MK*; BELL, AM; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign bensky2@illinois.edu Species invasions provide an opportunity to study how traits evolve as organisms move into novel environments. The invasion process might act as a filter […]
Testing cognitive flexibility in non-model organisms Poeciliid fishes vary by species, sex and context in detour performance
Meeting Abstract 22-5 Saturday, Jan. 4 11:30 – 11:45 Testing cognitive flexibility in non-model organisms: Poeciliid fishes vary by species, sex and context in detour performance SCHUMM, MR*; CUMMINGS, ME; RAMSEY, ME; UT; UT; UT mschumm13@gmail.com Cognitive performance varies between species, and differences in life history characteristics may explain much of that variation. We compare variation in […]
Leveraging Network Analysis to Study the Evolution of Sociality in Vertebrates
Meeting Abstract 22-2 Saturday, Jan. 4 10:45 – 11:00 Leveraging Network Analysis to Study the Evolution of Sociality in Vertebrates YOUNG, R/L*; HOFMANN, H/A; University of Texas at Austin; University of Texas at Austin youngrl@utexas.edu https://devoevo.ccbb.utexas.edu/ Recent comparative studies of complex behavioral phenotypes find evidence that homoplasy, or the evolution of similar phenotypes in unrelated species, is […]
Genetic Background and Sexual Experience Jointly Determine Courtship Strategy
Meeting Abstract 22-1 Saturday, Jan. 4 10:30 – 10:45 Genetic Background and Sexual Experience Jointly Determine Courtship Strategy PHIPPS, N*; STEIN, LR; HOKE, K; Colorado State University; University of Oklahoma; Colorado State University Nathan.Phipps@colostate.edu Animal mating behavior is influenced by both genetic background and lifetime experience. We sought to investigate how genetic adaptations to environmental stressors interact […]
Doing more with less African giant pouched rats specialize in olfaction with a typical olfactory receptor repertoire
Meeting Abstract 22-6 Saturday, Jan. 4 11:45 – 12:00 Doing more with less: African giant pouched rats specialize in olfaction with a typical olfactory receptor repertoire FREEMAN, AR*; OPHIR, AG; SHEEHAN, MJ; Cornell University; Cornell University; Cornell University arf86@cornell.edu https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/742668v1 Rodents use their keen sense of smell to navigate their environment, find food and mates, recognize conspecifics, […]
The metabolic cost of flight in budgies revisiting an outlier
Bundle, M.W.*; Dial, K.P.: The metabolic cost of flight in budgies: revisiting an outlier Measuring the metabolic cost of flight has been possible for a little more than thirty years. Since V. A. Tucker’s classic work with budgerigars, fewer than a dozen other species of birds have been flown in wind tunnels in order to […]
The Source of Power for Acceleration in Turkeys
Roberts, T.J.*; Scales, J.A.: The Source of Power for Acceleration in Turkeys. Many of the features that make some muscle-tendon units effective as springs during running – long tendons, short muscle fibers, articulations across more than one joint – may make them ill-suited to performing mechanical work. It has been suggested that the work required […]
On the Origin and Ontogeny of Bird Flight Developing Wings Assist Vertical Running
DIAL, K.P.: On the Origin and Ontogeny of Bird Flight: Developing Wings Assist Vertical Running Discussions on the origin of avian flight fall into two philosophical camps: arboreal (tree-down) or cursorial (ground-up) hypotheses, both of which are dominated by paleontological evidence that fails to adequately address logical incremental adaptive stages necessary to achieve fully developed […]
