1:30 PM: Burns, Jean^*,1, Miller, Thomas^*,1, ¹ Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, Character states associated with the success of invasive species in the Commelinaceae.

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1:50 PM: Murren, Courtney^*,1, Dudash, Michele², ¹ Dept. of Biology, Charleston, SC, USA² Dept. of Biology, College Park, MD, USA, How inbreeding and phenotypic plasticity influence invasion success.

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2:10 PM: Purich, Melissa^*,1, Lo, Eugenia¹, Dickinson, Timothy^{1, 2}, ¹ Botany Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada² Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Characterizing hybridization between native and non-native Crataegus species.

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2:30 PM: Schwarz, Dietmar^*,1, McPheron, Bruce¹, ¹ Penn State University, University Park, PA, 16803, Rapid recombinational speciation in native insects as a novel consequence of exotic plant introductions.

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2:50 PM: Colautti, Robert^*,1, MacIsaac, Hugh¹, Heath, Daniel¹, ¹ Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Invasion genetics of the Eurasian spiny waterflea (Bythotrephes longimanus): Evidence for bottlenecks and multiple origins using microsatellites.

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3:20 PM: Meyer, Gretchen^*,1, Hull-Sanders, Helen¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA, Altered patterns of sexual and asexual reproduction in invasive genotypes of Solidago gigantea.

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3:40 PM: Lavergne, Sebastien^*,1, Molofsky, Jane ¹, ¹ Department of Botany, Burlington, Vermont, USA, Genetic stucture and morphological variation of introduced and native populations of the invasive grass Phalaris arundinacea , reed canary grass.

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4:00 PM: Schlaepfer, Martin^*,1, Sherman, Paul ², Blossey, Bernd², Runge, Michael³, ¹ University of Texas, Austin, TX, mas50@mail.utexas.edu² Cornell University, Ithaca, NY³ US Geological Survey, Patuxent, Laurel, MD, Introduced species as evolutionary traps.

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4:20 PM: Levri, Edward^*,1, Dybdahl, Mark², Drown, Devin², ¹ Penn State - Altoona, Altoona, PA, USA² Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, Broader salinity tolerance in invasive vs. native range genotypes of a freshwater snail.

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