Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
J2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 84 - Ecology and evolution of mutualism
1:30 PMCOS 84-1Plant-rhizobia mutualism influences aphid abundance on soybean
Jennifer M. Dean, Pennsylvania State University, Consuelo M. De Moraes, Pennsylvania State University
1:50 PMCOS 84-2Mutualistic associations facilitate swainsonine production in species of Oxytropis from North America and China
Jose R. Valdez-Barillas, Colorado State University, R. Dennis Child, Colorado State University, Rebecca Creamer, New Mexico State University, Dale Gardner, USDA/ARS Poisonous Plant Laboratory, Mengli Zhao, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Ping Lu, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Deana Baucom, New Mexico State University, Michael H. Ralphs, USDA/ARS Poisonous Plant Laboratory, Mark Paschke, Colorado State University
2:10 PMCOS 84-3Evolutionary conflict over resource hoarding in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis
Will Ratcliff, University of Minnesota, Ryoko Oono, University of Minnesota, Andy Coffman, University of Minnesota, R. Ford Denison, University of Minnesota
2:30 PMCOS 84-4How long-lasting are mutualistic interactions? A case study of a lichen-oak mutualism
Silke Werth, University of California, Los Angeles, Delphine P. Grivet, University of California, Los Angeles, Victoria L. Sork, University of California, Los Angeles
2:50 PMCOS 84-5Florivores limit cost of mutualism in the yucca-yucca moth association
Kari A. Segraves, Syracuse University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 84-6Multiple partners confer higher lifetime fitness to host plants in an African ant-plant mutualism
Daniel F. Doak, University of California, Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida, Truman P. Young, University of California, Maureen L. Stanton, University of California
3:40 PMCOS 84-7Tropical keystone guild interactions: Fruit removal by a frugivore foraging guild and disperser attraction by a Ficus fruiting guild in Ankarana, Madagascar
Brent J. Sewall, University of California, Davis, Amy L. Freestone, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Joseph Hawes, University of East Anglia
4:00 PMCOS 84-8Testing the dispersal syndrome hypothesis on Ficus (Moraceae): The effect of color, odor, and size on fig preference by birds and mammals
Silvia B. Lomáscolo, University of Florida
4:20 PMCOS 84-9The adaptive diversification of mutualisms: Organism ecology drives macroevolutionary patterns
Regis Ferriere, University of Arizona, Mathias Gauduchon, Ecole Normale Supérieure, James C. Stegen, University of Arizona
4:40 PMCOS 84-10Phylogenetic structure in mutualistic networks
Jessica E. Lavabre, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Enrico L. Rezende, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Paulo R. Guimarães, Jr, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Pedro Jordano, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC

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