COS 86 - Evolutionary Ecology

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
201 B, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
 Cardenolides, induced responses, and interactions between above- and belowground herbivores in the milkweeds (Asclepias spp)
Sergio Rasmann, University of California at Irvine; Anurag A. Agrawal, Cornell University; Susan C Cook, Cornell University; Alexis C. Erwin, California State Senate
8:20 AM
 Inbreeding depression varies with investment in sex in a cyclic parthenogen
Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois; Cynthia A. Hartway, University of Montana; Kimberly A. Paczolt, Texas A&M University
8:40 AM
 The effect of maternal environment on seed dormancy and its support for an evolutionary stable strategy
Christian Lampei Sr., University Tuebingen; Katja Tielboerger, Tuebingen University
9:00 AM
 Diversity, host specificity, and evolution of trophic modes among endophytic, endolichenic, and saprotrophic fungi
Jana M. U'Ren, University of Arizona; Jolanta Miadlikowska, Duke University; Francois Lutzoni, Duke University; A. Elizabeth Arnold, University of Arizona
9:20 AM
 Frequent evolution of theft in fungus-farming ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae)
Jiri Hulcr, North Carolina State University; Anthony I Cognato, Michigan State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Dioecy as a specialization promoting sperm delivery
Priya Iyer, Stanford University; Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University
10:10 AM
 Local adaptation in the feeding preferences for chemically-rich seaweeds in the marine herbivore, Ampithoe longimana
Amanda T. McCarty, College of Charleston; Erik E. Sotka, College of Charleston
10:30 AM
 Ontogenetic and spatial variation in size-selective mortality of a marine fish
Darren W. Johnson, Oregon State University; Mark A. Hixon, Oregon State University
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