Meeting Abstract 76.5  Sunday, Jan. 6  Principles of flipper use during walking on flowing ground MAZOUCHOVA, N.; UMBANHOWAR, P.B.; GOLDMAN, D.I.*; Temple Univ.; Northwestern Univ.; Georgia Tech daniel.goldman@physics.gatech.edu Animals, like lobe-finned fishes, likely first walked on wet sand and mud. In the evolutionary transition from aquatic to terrestrial locomotion, the rheology of limb (fin) interaction changed from […]

Meeting Abstract 76.6  Sunday, Jan. 6  Ontogenetic shifts in oxygen uptake of Common Mudskipper (Periophthalmus kalolo) and its role in microhabitat selection SANDBERG, JS; DABRUZZI , TF; BENNETT, WA*; University of West Florida; University of West Florida; University of West Florida wbennett@uwf.edu The Common Mudskipper, Periophthalmus kalolo, is a tropical, amphibious fish capable of utilizing both air […]

Meeting Abstract 76.3  Sunday, Jan. 6  Citius, altius, fortius: jumping kinematics and kinetics in two distantly related teleosts PERLMAN, BM*; KAWANO, S; BLOB, RW; ASHLEY-ROSS, MA; Wake Forest University; Clemson University; Clemson University; Wake Forest University perlbm0@wfu.edu Many fish stranded on land will use axial movements to generate C-jumps in efforts to return to water. However, mangrove […]

Meeting Abstract 76.1  Sunday, Jan. 6  Can exaptation facilitate terrestrial invasion? Oral kinematics of climbing and feeding in a waterfall-climbing gobiid fish CULLEN, J.A.**; MAIE, T.; SCHOENFUSS, H.L.; BLOB, R.W.; Clemson Univ.; Clemson Univ.; St. Cloud State Univ.; Clemson Univ. jcullen@clemson.edu Species of the gobiid fish genus Sicyopterus use a novel inching behavior to climb waterfalls, in […]

Meeting Abstract 76.4  Sunday, Jan. 6  An analysis of neuromuscular control in the pelvic fin of African lungfish (Protopterus annectens). AIELLO, B.A.*; KING, H.M.; HALE, M.E.; Univ. of Chicago; Univ. of Chicago; Univ. of Chicago braiello@uchicago.edu African lungfish (Protopterus annectens) and tetrapods share fundamental features of their limbed locomotion. Previous study of pelvic fin kinematics emphasized the […]

Meeting Abstract 76.1  Monday, Jan. 6 08:00  Molgulid Ascidians have a Radical Heterochronic Shift in their Metamorphic Gene Network MALISKA, M.; LOWE , E.; WEBER, C.; STOLFI, A.; PEYRIERAS, N.; CHRISTIAEN, L.; BROWN, C.T.; SWALLA, B.J.*; Univ. of Washington, Seattle; Michigan State University, East Lansing; Univ. of Washington, Seattle; New York University, New York; Institut de Neurobiologie […]

Meeting Abstract 76.6  Monday, Jan. 6 09:15  Gene expression differences in the sexually dimorphic eyes of Euphilomedes carcharodonta (Ostracoda, Crustacea) SAJUTHI, A.; CARRILLO-ZAZUETA, B.; BRONDANSKY, L.; WANG, A.; DUKE, E.; RIVERA, A.S.*; University of the Pacific; University of the Pacific; University of the Pacific; University of the Pacific; University of the Pacific; University of the Pacific arivera@pacific.edu […]

Meeting Abstract 76.2  Monday, Jan. 6 08:15  Functional conservation of heart-related enhancers in Ciona intestinalis and Corella inflata HWANG, A.E.*; DAVIDSON, B.J.; Swarthmore College; Swarthmore College ahwang2@swarthmore.edu Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) are responsible for regulating the timing and localization of gene expression. Orthologous CREs from widely disparate species can display conserved regulatory activity despite significant sequence variation. To […]

Meeting Abstract 76.3  Monday, Jan. 6 08:30  Combining developmental, population, and comparative genomics analyses to study long term evolution of cell types SIMAKOV, O.*; ROKHSAR, D.S.; ARENDT, D.; EMBL Heidelberg, Germany; UC Berkeley; EMBL Heidelberg, Germany simakov@embl.de While most of the inferences about the ancestral metazoan or bilaterian cell type complements are based primarily on gene expression […]

Meeting Abstract 76.4  Monday, Jan. 6 08:45  An Integrative Approach to Dissecting the Nanoscopic Morphogenesis of Structural Color in Butterflies NULL, RW*; KRUP, AL; SINHA, M; PATEL, NH; Univ. of California, Berkeley; Univ. of California, San Francisco; Univ. of California, Berkeley; Univ. of California, Berkeley ryan.null@berkeley.edu The adaptive evolution of animal coloration is influenced at both micro […]