Meeting Abstract 8-7  Thursday, Jan. 4 09:30 – 09:45  Evolutionary origin of the mammalian Hematopoietic and Immune systems found in a Colonial Chordate ROSENTAL, B*; KOWARSKY, M A; COREY, D N; ISHIZUKA, K J; PALMERI, K J; CHEN, S Y; SINHA, R; SEITA, J; QUAKE, S; WEISSMAN, I L; VOSKOBOYNIK, A; Stanford University School of Medicine. benyamin@stanford.edu […]

Meeting Abstract 8-4  Thursday, Jan. 4 08:45 – 09:00  Copy number variation and a role in vision for CRAL-TRIO domain genes in Heliconius melpomene MACIAS-MUNOZ, A*; MCCULLOCH, KJ; BRISCOE, AD; University of California, Irvine; University of California, Irvine; Harvard University amaciasm@uci.edu The CRAL-TRIO domain is a structural region common to proteins that transport hydrophobic tocopherols. In vertebrates […]

Meeting Abstract 8-3  Friday, Jan. 4 08:30 – 08:45  Scaling with Scales: Analysis of armor and swimming through ontogeny in the Bay Pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus) FORD, KL*; DONATELLI, CM; GIBB, AC; ALBERT, JA; SUMMERS, AP; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Tufts University; Northern Arizona University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; University of Washington klf8880@louisiana.edu http://kassandraford.weebly.com Syngnathid fishes […]

Meeting Abstract 8-4  Friday, Jan. 4 08:45 – 09:00  Ontogenetic scaling of the viscoelastic mechanical properties of the body of the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus PFEIFFENBERGER, JA*; TYTELL, ED; Tufts University; Tufts University Janne.Pfeiffenberger@Tufts.edu The bodies of fishes are composed of flexible materials that interact mechanically with the fluid around the fish. While the behavior and mechanics […]

Meeting Abstract 8-2  Friday, Jan. 4 08:15 – 08:30  Optimisation strategies and hydrodynamic constraints in undulatory swimming: lessons learned from larval fish LI, G*; LIU, H; MULLER, U K; VOESENEK, C J; VAN LEEUWEN, J L; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC); Chiba University; California State University Fresno; Wageningen University; Wageningen University ligen@jamstec.go.jp To understand […]

Meeting Abstract 8-5  Friday, Jan. 4 09:00 – 09:15  Mechanical behavior of vertebral trabecular bone varies regionally and ontogenetically in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) INGLE, DN*; PORTER, ME; Florida Atlantic University dingle2014@fau.edu Trabecular bone forms a porous architecture that changes in vivo to support mechanical demands on the body and can reflect the degree of […]

Meeting Abstract 8-6  Friday, Jan. 4 09:15 – 09:30  Does scaling of morphology depend on locomotor ecology? The case of the sciuromorph rodent femur WOELFER, J*; AMSON, EA; ARNOLD, P; BOTTON-DIVET, L; FABRE, AC; VANHETEREN, AH; NYAKATURA, J; Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin; Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin; Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet, Jena; Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris; […]

Meeting Abstract 8-1  Friday, Jan. 4 08:00 – 08:15  Changes in body size affect the biomechanics and behavior of teleost fishes GIBB, AC*; MINICOZZI, MR; Northern Arizona University; Northern Arizona University alice.gibb@nau.edu http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/acg/ Thousands of studies have examined how the biomechanical and physiological underpinnings of movement are influenced by body size in tetrapods, particularly in terrestrial mammals. […]