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Oral Session # 57: Evolutionary Ecology II: Animal.
Presiding: S Juliano
Wednesday, August 6. 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM, SITCC Meeting Room 201.

1:30 PM Roughgarden, Joan*,1, 1 Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA Darwin's theory of sexual selection false and inadequate.

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1:45 PM Tenhumberg, Brigitte*,1, 2, Tyre, Andrew1, 2, Pople, Anthony 1, Possingham, Hugh1, 1 University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia2 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Can harvest refuges counteract the effect of evolutionary change in body size caused by size selective harvesting?

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2:00 PM Donahue, Megan*,1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA Gregarious settlement and size-dependent trade-offs: Better to be small than dead?

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2:15 PM Bashey, Farrah*,1, 2, 1 Department of Biology, Riverside, CA2 Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN Local adaptation and plasticity of offspring size in guppies.

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2:30 PM Marsh-Matthews, Edie*,1, Brooks, Melody1, Deaton, Raelynn1, 1 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Matrotrophic provisioning: A bet-hedging mechanism in mosquitofish?

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2:45 PM Stillwell, Craig*,1, Fox, Charles1, 1 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Thermal evolution of life history traits: The effect of temperature during development and egg laying.

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3:00 PM Break.

3:15 PM Freidenburg, Kealoha*,1, Skelly, David2, 1 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT2 Yale University, New Haven, CT Microgeographic variation in thermal preference by an amphibian.

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3:30 PM Skelly, David*,1, 1 Yale University, New Haven, CT Microgeographic divergence among amphibian populations.

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3:45 PM Halverson, Mark Anders*,1, 1 Yale University, New Haven, CT Examining the evolutionary ecology of wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) using microsatellite analysis.

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4:00 PM Wolf, Mosheh*,1, Salazar-Bravo, Jorge2, Frggens, Mike3, 1 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois2 Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas3 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Morphological divergence in populations of the plains pocket mouse Perognathus flavescens in adjacent habitats.

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4:15 PM Carsten, L*,1, Watts, T1, Bosco, G1, Markow, T1, 1 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Gene expression patterns underlying host shifts in Drosophila melanogaster.

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4:30 PM Caceres, Carla*,1, Tessier, Alan2, 1 Univerisity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL2 Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI To be (dormant) or not to be (dormant): Life history tradeoffs in Daphnia pulicaria.

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