COS 48 - Evolution: Population genetics and population differentiation

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon II, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
 The Allee effect limits the loss of genetic variability during population bottlenecks
Andrew M. Kramer, University of Georgia; Orlando Sarnelle, Michigan State University
1:50 PM
 The use of non-invasive fecal DNA sampling to assess the genetic status of the Greater Yellowstone Area bison populations
Florence M. Gardipee, The University of Montana; Michael O'Brien, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Gordon Luikart, The University of Montana; Fred Allendorf, The University of Montana
2:10 PM
 Population connectivity and landscape genetics of the Idaho ground squirrel (Spermophilus brunneus)
Jessica Hoisington, University of Idaho; Lisette Waits, University of Idaho; Jack Sullivan, University of Idaho; Janet Rachlow, University of Idaho
2:50 PM
 Ecological separation in a polymorphic terrestrial salamander
Carl D. Anthony, John Carroll University; Matthew D. Venesky, Allegheny College; Cari-Ann M. Hickerson, Cleveland State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 The effects of genetic diversity on community assembly and adaptation in Daphnia populations
Jelena H. Pantel, KU Leuven - University of Leuven; Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin
4:00 PM
 Mechanisms defining ecological range limits in a natural plant hybrid zone
Sarah Kimball, UC Irvine; Diane R. Campbell, University of California, Irvine
4:20 PM
 The potential role of coastal summer fog in the evolutionary diversification of Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae)
Michael C. Vasey, San Francisco State University; Virgil Parker, San Francisco State University
4:40 PM
 Adaptation in serpentine and non-serpentine habitats: Using 150 field plots across a landscape to understand adaptation to the biotic and abiotic environment in two locally adapted ecotypes of a native plant, Collinsia sparsiflora
Jessica W. Wright, Conservation of Biodiversity; Kendi Davies, University of Colorado; Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University; Andrew C. McCall, Denison University; John K. McKay, Colorado State University
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