1:30 PM: Baeza, J. Antonio^*,1, ¹ Department of Biology, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA, On the evolution of protandric-simultaneous hermaphroditism in the shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni: A consequence of sex-dependent energetic costs, mortality rates, or time commitments?

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1:50 PM: Weese, Dylan^*,1, Kinnison, Michael¹, ¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Orono, Maine, Comparing the pattern and strength of natural selection between high and low-predation populations of Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata.

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2:10 PM: Gordon, Swanne^*,1, Hendry, Andrew ¹, Reznick, David², ¹ McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada² University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California, U.S., Rate of adaptation to new environments in Trinidadian guppies.

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2:30 PM: Schwartz, Amy¹, Hendry, Andrew¹, ¹ McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Female preferences evolve in response to divergent predation pressure in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

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2:50 PM: Claessen, David^{*,1, 2}, Andersson, Jens³, ¹ University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands² Universite Paris 6, Paris, France³ Umea University, Umea, Sweden, The role of generation cycles in the evolution of resource polymorphism.

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3:20 PM: Klug, Hope^*,1, Lindström, Kai², St. Mary, Colette¹, ¹ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA² University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Parents benefit when they eat their own offspring: Filial cannibalism in the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus.

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3:40 PM: Hayward, April^*,1, Kolasa, Jurek¹, ¹ McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Allometric scaling at higher levels of biological organisation: Evidence from natural aquatic microcosm ecosystems.

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4:00 PM: Finkel, Zoe^*,1, ¹ Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Climatically-driven macroevolutionary change in the size of marine planktonic diatoms.

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4:20 PM: Weir, Laura^*,1, Grant, James², Hutchings, Jeffrey¹, ¹ Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada² Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Operational sex ratio and aggression within alternative strategies in male Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar.

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