Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101 B, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 13 - Selection and Adaptation
1:30 PMCOS 13-1Interaction intensity affects selection strength in a plant-animal interaction
Didrik Vanhoenacker, Stockholm University, Jon Ågren, Uppsala University, Johan Ehrlén, Stockholm University
1:50 PMCOS 13-2A cost of asexuality? Evidence for higher phosphorus and nucleic acid content in asexual versus sexual freshwater snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum)
Katherine M. Theisen, University of St. Thomas, Maurine Neiman, University of Iowa, Madeline E. Mayry, University of St. Thomas, Adam D. Kay, University of St. Thomas
2:10 PMCOS 13-3Inbreeding depression and selfing rate of Ipomoea hederacea across Alabama
Helen M. Hull-Sanders, Canisius College, Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University, David E. Carr, University of Virginia
2:30 PMCOS 13-4Why are some stems red? Expression and function of anthocyanins in Apocynum cannabinum plants under stress
Dana A. Dudle, DePauw University, Erica J. Ross, DePauw University, Ryan Edelen, DePauw University, Matthew Howes, DePauw University
2:50 PMCOS 13-5Evolutionary effects and ecological consequences of proto-domestication in Chrysophyllum cainito, a tropical tree
Ingrid M. Parker, University of California, Santa Cruz, Isis López, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Jennifer J. Petersen, University of California, Davis, Daniel Potter, University of California, Davis
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 13-6Genetic differentiation and adaptive phenotypic plasticity in response to a continuous environmental gradient on serpentine soils
Brooke S. Baythavong, University of California Davis, Maureen L. Stanton, University of California, Kevin Rice, University of California Davis
3:40 PMCOS 13-7Hyperstomaty in Hawaiian Chamaesyce, a remarkable case of adaptive radiation
Margaret Sporck, University of Hawaii, Lawren Sack, University of California
4:00 PMCOS 13-8Stoichiometry of the Rubisco amino acid sequence: Implications of plant metabolic adaptations to environmental stress
James D.J. Gilbert, University of Maryland, William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
4:20 PMCOS 13-9Mapping quantitative trait loci associated with compensatory responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
Madhura H. Siddappaji, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Ken N Paige, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
4:40 PMCOS 13-10Phylogeographic patterns in high Andean endemics Schizanthus hookeri and S. grahamii: The problem of delimiting species
Fernanda Pérez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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