COS 98
Evolution: Selection And Adaptation

Thursday, August 14, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Regency Blrm E, Hyatt Regency Hotel
8:00 AM
COS 98-1
 Gene flow and local adaptation along elevation gradients in an invasive plant (Solidago canadensis)
Emily V. Moran, UC Merced
8:20 AM
COS 98-2
 Can a native Mojave Desert shrub, Ambrosia salsola, adapt to increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition and annual grass invasion in Joshua Tree National Park?
Dashiell Hibbard, University of Nevada, Reno; Elizabeth A. Leger, University of Nevada, Reno
8:40 AM
COS 98-3
 Estimating evolutionary potential in the wild : Role and stability of the G matrix
Celine Teplitsky, CNRS
9:00 AM
COS 98-4
 Rapid local adaptation: Can it explain the invasive success of the red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)?
Ariane Le Gros, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Philippe Clergeau, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Raphaël Cornette, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Dario Zuccon, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Sarah Samadi, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
9:20 AM
COS 98-5
 Trees as mosaics of genetic variability: An assessment of the somatic mutation hypothesis
Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign; Brett P. Olds, University of Notre Dame; Patrick J. Mulrooney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Daniel R. Scholes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Barry Pittendrigh, University of Illinois
9:40 AM
COS 98-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 98-6
 Population size and inbreeding depression in a native biennial: Unexpected patterns
Rachel B. Spigler, Temple University; Shu-mei Chang, University of Georgia
10:10 AM
COS 98-7
 Demographic limits to the role of plasticity in adaptation to environmental shifts
Jaime Ashander, University of California, Davis; Marissa L. Baskett, University of California, Davis
10:30 AM
COS 98-8
 Indiscriminant early life stages prevent local adaptation along an environmental gradient
Kara A. Moore, University of California, Davis; Maureen Stanton, University of California Davis
10:50 AM
COS 98-9
 Presence of a close relative forces a shift in flowering time in Dudleya brittonii (Crassulaceae)
Thomas W. Mulroy, Leidos, Inc.; Juliana C. Mulroy, Denison University
11:10 AM
COS 98-10
 The difference of morphological diversity between land and marine gastropod shells
Koji Noshita, Kyushu University
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