Meeting Abstract 29.4  Friday, Jan. 4  Growing up in an unstable environment: Consequences of diel thermal variation to developing anurans NIEHAUS, AC*; ANGILLETTA, MJ; FRANKLIN, CE; WILSON, RS; University of Queensland a.niehaus@uq.edu.au Ecologists have long sought to understand the plasticity of organisms in environments that vary widely among years, seasons, and even hours of the day. Though […]

Meeting Abstract 29.5  Friday, Jan. 4  Cost of Living Differences Among Fiddler Crab Populations Along a Tidal River. BORGIANINI, SA*; SPROUL, G; FLENNIKEN, MM; SUTTON, MC; BRODIE, RJ; University of South Carolina; University of South Carolina Beaufort; Ht. Holyoke College; University of South Carolina Beaufort; Ht. Holyoke College borgians@biol.sc.edu The bioenergetic cost of osmotic stress is often […]

Meeting Abstract 29.6  Friday, Jan. 4  Competition and Biogeography of Freshwater Mussels LEVINE, TD; Miami University levinetd@muohio.edu Unionid mussels constitute a highly threatened taxon, which achieve their greatest diversity in North America. To effectively conserve freshwater mussels it is necessary to understand their basic ecology. Recent theoretical models have demonstrated that mussels may interact competitively during their […]

Meeting Abstract 29.1  Monday, Jan. 5  Why Are There no Giant Teleosts? LANDRY, S.O,; State Univ. of New York, Binghamton slandry@binghamton.edu Why are there no giant teleosts? Every other vertebrate clade that has entered the ocean has produced giant forms (chondrichthyans, placodermii, reptiles, mammals), Defining a giant as above 30 feet (10 meters) and one tonne, no […]

Meeting Abstract 29.2  Monday, Jan. 5  Seasonal differences in aromatase (cyp19) mRNA expression in the brain of the free-living male song sparrow, Melospiza melodia morphna WACKER, D.W.*; WINGFIELD, J.C.; DAVIS, J.E.; MEDDLE, S.L.; University of Edinburgh; University of California, Davis; Radford University; University of Edinburgh dwacker@staffmail.ed.ac.uk Male song sparrows go through three annual life history stages. In […]

Meeting Abstract 29.3  Monday, Jan. 5  Photic and non-photic regulation of GnRH-I in male European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). STEVENSON, T/J*; BERNARD, D/J; BALL, G/F; Johns Hopkins University; McGill University; Johns Hopkins University tsteve13@jhu.edu In many temperate zone avian species, the vernal increase in photoperiod is the initial predictive cue that triggers a cascade of events leading to […]

Meeting Abstract 29.5  Monday, Jan. 5  Graded inhibition of reproductive physiology by short photoperiod and aging outcomes in female Siberian hamsters, Phodopus sungorus PLACE, Ned J; Cornell University njp27@cornell.edu Reproductive aging has been shown to be decelerated in female Siberian hamsters raised in short days (SD), and delayed puberty induced by SD rearing was thought to be […]

Meeting Abstract 29.4  Monday, Jan. 5  Endocrine mechanisms mediating temperature-induced reproductive behavior in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis). LUTTERSCHMIDT, D.I.*; MASON, R.T.; Georgia State University, Atlanta; Oregon State University, Corvallis lutterschmidt@gsu.edu In many hibernating ectotherms, photoperiod cues likely have little or no influence on the initiation of spring reproductive behavior. Rather, temperature may be the most important environmental […]

Meeting Abstract 29.6  Monday, Jan. 5  A springtime KiSS?: Uncovering a role for the neuropeptide kisspeptin in seasonal reproduction GREIVES, Timothy J*; KRIEGSFELD, Lance J; DEMAS, Gregory E; Department of Biology and Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47405, USA; Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, […]

Meeting Abstract 29.4  Monday, Jan. 4  Transcriptome characterization via 454 sequencing of an oligochaete annelid (Pristina leidyi) used in regeneration research NYBERG, Kevin G.*; BELY, Alexandra E.; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Maryland, College Park kevingnyberg@gmail.com Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have made possible the development of genomic resources in non-traditional model systems. Here, […]