Meeting Abstract 34-5 Thursday, Jan. 5 14:30 – 14:45 Strategic strikes: how mantis shrimp crack open different prey CRANE, RL*; KISARE, SA; PATEK, SN; Stanford Univ., Hopkins Marine Station; Duke Univ.; Duke Univ. rlcrane@stanford.edu To fracture armored prey, crushing and peeling predators often strategically apply loads targeted to a prey’s particular morphology. However, unlike the slow, crushing […]
year: 2017
No Experience Not a Problem Flexible Pollen Foraging by Bees Does Not Require Learning
Meeting Abstract 34-1 Thursday, Jan. 5 13:30 – 13:45 No Experience? Not a Problem: Flexible Pollen Foraging by Bees Does Not Require Learning RUSSELL, A/L*; BUCHMANN, S/L; PAPAJ, D/R; University of Arizona; University of Arizona; University of Arizona averyrussell@email.arizona.edu https://averyrussellresearch.wordpress.com/ Bees foraging for floral rewards are one of our most thoroughly studied examples of generalist foraging ecology. […]
Magnetic Genetics Sea Turtle Rookery Genetic Structures Provide Evidence for Geomagnetic Imprinting as a Mechanism of Natal Homing
Meeting Abstract 34-2 Thursday, Jan. 5 13:45 – 14:00 Magnetic Genetics: Sea Turtle Rookery Genetic Structures Provide Evidence for Geomagnetic Imprinting as a Mechanism of Natal Homing BROTHERS, J.R.*; LOHMANN, K.J.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill brotherj@live.unc.edu Natal homing is a pattern of behavior during which animals leave […]
Is the Stickleback Manipulated by its Parasitic Flatworm Combining Phenotypic Engineering and Transcriptomic Approaches
Meeting Abstract 34-3 Thursday, Jan. 5 14:00 – 14:15 Is the Stickleback Manipulated by its Parasitic Flatworm? Combining Phenotypic Engineering and Transcriptomic Approaches. GRECIAS, L*; HEBERT, FO; BERGER, C; BARBER, I; AUBIN-HORTH, N; Université Laval, Québec; Université Laval, Québec; Université Laval, Québec; Leicester University, UK; Université Laval, Québec lucie.grecias.1@ulaval.ca Sticklebacks infected by the parasitic flatworm Schistocephalus solidus […]
Cooperative breeding reduces the oxidative costs of reproduction
Meeting Abstract 34-7 Thursday, Jan. 5 15:00 – 15:15 Cooperative breeding reduces the oxidative costs of reproduction GUINDRE-PARKER, S.*; RUBENSTEIN, D.R.; Columbia University; Columbia University slg2154@columbia.edu http://www.columbia.edu/~slg2154/ All sexually reproducing organisms are faced with a fundamental decision: to invest valuable resources and energy in reproduction or in their own survival. This trade-off represents the ‘cost of reproduction’ […]
Animal Personality Explains Among-Individual Variation in Antipredator Strategies
Meeting Abstract 34-4 Thursday, Jan. 5 14:15 – 14:30 Animal Personality Explains Among-Individual Variation in Antipredator Strategies GOODCHILD, CG*; SCHMIDT, LM; DURANT, SE; Oklahoma State University christopher.goodchild@okstate.edu The animal personality hypothesis postulates that animals have limited behavioral plasticity, and consequently, an individual’s behavioral traits will be consistently expressed across different ecological contexts (e.g., predation regimes). Since there […]
Sequencing Dead Ducks – The Labrador Duck is Sister to Stellar’s Eider and the Subfossil Chendytes lawi roots the dabbling duck clade
Meeting Abstract 33-4 Thursday, Jan. 5 14:15 – 14:30 Sequencing Dead Ducks – The Labrador Duck is Sister to Stellar’s Eider and the Subfossil Chendytes lawi roots the dabbling duck clade BUCKNER, JC*; ELLINGSON, R; GOLD, DA; JACOBS, DK; Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Univ. of California, […]
Revealing the Identity of the Model Organism Chaetopterus sp (Annelida)
Meeting Abstract 33-3 Thursday, Jan. 5 14:00 – 14:15 Revealing the Identity of the Model Organism Chaetopterus sp. (Annelida) MOORE, JM*; OSBORN, KJ; Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution jmoore@ufl.edu Chaetopterus is one of the most bizarre and readily recognized clades of marine Annelida. Members of the genus […]
Genomic Characterization of a Hybrid Zone between Sex-role Reversed Jacanas
Meeting Abstract 33-7 Thursday, Jan. 5 15:00 – 15:15 Genomic Characterization of a Hybrid Zone between Sex-role Reversed Jacanas LIPSHUTZ, SE*; DERRYBERRY, EP; Tulane University slipshut@tulane.edu https://saralipshutz.wordpress.com/research/ In several hybrid zones between species with male-dominant mating systems, male aggression drives genetic introgression into the less aggressive species. Sex-role-reversed systems, in which females compete for access to mates, […]
Delineation of Capitella Species (Annelida Capitellidae) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Floridian Ecoregions
Meeting Abstract 33-1 Thursday, Jan. 5 13:30 – 13:45 Delineation of Capitella Species (Annelida: Capitellidae) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Floridian Ecoregions HILLIARD, JL*; HAJDUK, MM; SCHULZE, A; Texas A&M University Galveston Campus; Texas A&M University Galveston Campus; Texas A&M University Galveston Campus jhilliard@tamu.edu Capitella capitata was frequently cited as a cosmopolitan bioindicator due to […]
