Meeting Abstract 31-3  Saturday, Jan. 4 13:45 – 14:00  What does it take to stay together? Uncovering symbiosis gene networks in a facultatively symbiotic coral RIVERA, HE*; DAVIES, SW; Boston University; Boston University hrivera@bu.edu Symbioses with unicellular algae in the family Symbiodiniaceae are common across marine invertebrates. Reef-building corals offer a unique example of cellular dysfunction that […]

Meeting Abstract 31-4  Saturday, Jan. 4 14:00 – 14:15  Symbiont diversity correlates with variability in holobiont stress tolerance HOWE-KERR, LI*; BACHELOT, B; WRIGHT, RM; KENKEL, CD; BAY, LK; CORREA, AMS; Rice University; Rice University; Smith College; University of Southern California; Australian Institute of Marine Science; Rice University lih2@rice.edu Coral reefs are experiencing global declines as climate change […]

Meeting Abstract 31-5  Saturday, Jan. 4 14:15 – 14:30  Mitochondrial introgression and its role in coral thermal tolerance BEDWELL, H*; BAY, L; FULLER, Z; PRZEWORSKI, M; MATZ, M; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Australian Institute of Marine Science; Columbia University, New York City, NY; Columbia University, New York City, NY; University of Texas at Austin, […]

Meeting Abstract 31-2  Saturday, Jan. 4 13:30 – 13:45  Coral Microbial Community Shifts Along a Steep Environmental Gradient FIFER, JE*; BUI, V; BERG, J; GABRIEL, M; BENTLAGE, B; DAVIES, S; Biology Department, Boston University ; Biology Department, Boston University ; Marine Laboratory, University of Guam; Marine Laboratory, University of Guam; Biology Department, Boston University ; Biology Department, […]

Meeting Abstract 31-7  Saturday, Jan. 4 15:00 – 15:15  Co-recruitment of Relatives Leads to Emergence of Inbred Genetically Isolated Group within a Panmictic Population of a Broadcast-spawning Reef-Building Coral BARFIELD, SJ*; DAVIES, SW; MATZ, MV; University of Texas, Austin; Boston University; University of Texas, Austin sbarfield@utexas.edu Many broadly-dispersing marine taxa are species rich, show genetic heterogeneity on […]

SANTINI, F.: Origin and Evolution of the Tetraodontiformes (Teleostei, Pisces), with an Analysis of the Patterns of Speciation of the Family Triacanthodidae. Fossil evidence seems to point towards an origin in shallow waters, during the upper Cretaceous, of several lineages of Acanthopterygian fishes, which now are widely distributed in deep waters. Among these groups, we […]

JONES, T.D.*; RUBEN, J.A.: Feather origins and the myth of “feathered dinosaurs” The origin of feathers has been linked to flight and/or insulation. Recent discoveries of dinosaurs with feathers or presumed feather precursors have been used to substantiate the latter hypothesis. However, analyses of the nasal passages and associated sinuses demonstrates that dinosaurs and early […]

PADIAN, K.*; HORNER, J.R.; de RICQLES, A.: Dinosaurian life history strategies: Evidence of differential growth rates from bone histology Dinosaurs, like other tetrapods, grew more quickly shortly after hatching than later in life. However, they did not grow like other non-avian reptiles, slowing their trajectory gradually in a convex arc through ontogeny. Rather, dinosaurs (especially […]

Katz, E.P.*; Hillman, S.S.: Cross-Sectional Area of the Nasal Passages of the Odontoceti. Implications for Paleophysiology In search of evidence bearing on the endothermic dinosaur hypothesis, a recent study by Ruben et al. (1996) revealed that endotherms tend to have larger nasal cross-sectional areas than ectotherms of the same mass. The reason offered for this […]

SHEIL, C.S.: Amniote Phylogeny Inferred from Morphology Phylogenetic relationships among living and fossil amniotes remain uncertain, and the topic is among the most contentious in evolutionary biology. Numerous evolutionary hypotheses supported by molecular and morphological data have been published recently. Previously, I presented results of a collaboration that combined the largest set of morphological and […]