COS 13 - Selection and Adaptation

Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101 B, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Interaction intensity affects selection strength in a plant-animal interaction
Didrik Vanhoenacker, Stockholm University; Jon Ågren, Uppsala University; Johan Ehrlén, Stockholm University
1:50 PM
 A 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 PM
 Inbreeding depression and selfing rate of Ipomoea hederacea across Alabama
Helen M. Hull-Sanders, Pennsylvania State University; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University; David E. Carr, University of Virginia
2:30 PM
 Why 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 PM
 Evolutionary effects and ecological consequences of proto-domestication in Chrysophyllum cainito, a tropical tree
Ingrid M. Parker, University of California, Santa Cruz; Isis López, Smithsonian Institute; Jennifer J. Petersen, University of California, Davis; Daniel Potter, University of California, Davis
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Genetic 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-Davis; Kevin Rice, University of California, Davis
3:40 PM
 Hyperstomaty in Hawaiian Chamaesyce, a remarkable case of adaptive radiation
Margaret Sporck, University of Hawaii; Lawren Sack, UCLA
4:00 PM
 Stoichiometry 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 PM
 Mapping 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
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