SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract 67-5  Sat Jan 2  Will carpenter bee (Xylocopa californica) nest temperatures exceed larval CTmax? Busby, MK*; Davidowitz, G; Bronstein, JL; The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ mkbusby@email.arizona.edu […]

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract 67-4  Sat Jan 2  Plasticity in egg size of the tropical marine polychaete Hydroides elegans Genovese, CB*; Moran, AM; Jewell, M; Marko, P; University of Hawaii at Manoa; University of Hawaii at Manoa; University of Hawaii at Manoa; University […]

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract 67-8  Sat Jan 2  Maternal environment drives larval rockfish gene expression patterns Baker, JB*; Saksa, KV; Kashef, NS; Stafford, DM; Sogard, SM; Hamilton, SL; Logan, CA; Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and CSU Monterey Bay; Moss Langing Marine Laboratories; Marine […]

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract 67-2  Sat Jan 2  Larval stage, temperature, and phytoplankton patches affect sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) swimming behavior Leveque-Eichhorn, L*; Grunbaum, D; George, SB; University California Berkeley; Georgia Southern University georges@georgiasouthern.edu Due to elevated late-Spring/early-Summer snow melt, the Salish Sea […]

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract 67-3  Sat Jan 2  Larval cloning in brittlestars Allen, JD; William and Mary jdallen@wm.edu https://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/jdallen/home The recruitment of new individuals into marine habitats is a critical determinant of community structure, yet much of our understanding of the ecology of […]

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract 67-1  Sat Jan 2  A hierarchy of sensory cues control larval settlement in the actinula larvae of Ectopleura crocea (Hydrozoa) Birch, S*; Plachetzki, D; University of New Hampshire, Durham; University of New Hampshire, Durham sjb1061@wildcats.unh.edu Community dynamics in benthic […]

Meeting Abstract 67-4  Sunday, Jan. 5 14:15 – 14:30  When You Need a Miracle: Amplifying and Sequencing Degraded DNA Through Touchdown and Nested PCR Techniques. JARMAN , MJ *; HILL, EC; BUTLER , MA; University of Hawaii, Honolulu mjarman@hawaii.edu There are many situations where investigators are faced with degraded DNA samples, but still need to obtain sequence […]

Meeting Abstract 67-7  Sunday, Jan. 5 14:45 – 15:00  Modularity in Gene Regulation: Evolution of Combinatorial Cis-Regulatory Inputs SCEPANOVIC, J*; KOLCHENKO, S; PLESSIER, F; LOWE, C; SPITZ, F; MARLOW, H; University of Chicago and Pasteur Institute, Paris and École normale supérieure, Paris; University of Chicago and Pasteur Institute, Paris and Sorbonne Université, Paris; University of Chicago and […]

Meeting Abstract 67-3  Sunday, Jan. 5 14:00 – 14:15  Innate immunity evolution in underrepresented metazoans and the implications when opting for similarity-metrics vs. hidden Markov models TASSIA, MG*; DAVID, KT; HALANYCH, KM; Auburn University, Auburn, AL; Auburn University, Auburn, AL; Auburn University, Auburn, AL mgt0007@auburn.edu In this study, we investigate the evolution of innate immunity signaling components […]

Meeting Abstract 67-1  Sunday, Jan. 5 13:30 – 13:45  Diverse patterns of human disease gene emergence and loss across the Metazoa CHANG, ES*; GONZALEZ, P; SCHNITZLER, CE; BAXEVANIS, AD; NHGRI/NIH; NHGRI/NIH; U. Florida; NHGRI/NIH sally.chang@nih.gov The increasing ease of generating genome-scale data has led to a huge increase in the number of organisms being developed as models […]