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Monday, July 28th

Monday, July 28th, 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm · Firs North/Boise Centre
Session 11: Contributed Papers: Molecular Ecology
Presiding: Mitchell B Cruzan, Portland State University
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11001July 28th 1:30 pmFirs North/Boise CentreWhy plants evolve faster (than animals)
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Oral PaperCruzan, Mitchell B.Weismann Barrie
gametic selection
Cell Lineage Selection
Mutation Accumulation
Germline
11002July 28th 1:45 pmFirs North/Boise CentreA full-plastome phylogenomic study on the tropical bamboo lineages
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Oral PaperWysocki, William P.; Clark, Lynn G.; Kelchner, Scot A.; Attigala, Lakshmi; Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo; Duvall, Melvin R..phylogenomics
Poaceae
Bambusoideae
GBSSI
plastome
11003July 28th 2:00 pmFirs North/Boise CentreEcological and Genetic Causes of Female-Biased Sex Ratios in Dwarf Willows
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Oral PaperCortes Vera , Andres Javier; Liu, Xiaodong; Lexer, Christian; Sedlacek, Janosch; Wheeler, Julia A.; Karrenberg, Sophie.alpine shrubs
ecological selection
gametic selection
genetic determination
GBS-derived SNP-markers
machine learning
sex ratio
11004July 28th 2:15 pmFirs North/Boise CentreEupatorium rotundifolium complex and its journey across the Southeast
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Oral PaperGRUBBS , KUNSIRI CHAW.hybridization 
Eupatorium
distribution
11005July 28th 2:30 pmFirs North/Boise CentreMating system analysis of native and invasive populations of medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae): evidence for pre-adaptation during biological invasion
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Oral PaperPrior, Carly; Rausch, Joseph; Sforza, Rene; SMITH, JAMES F.; Novak, Steve.Biological Invasions
mating system
Medusahead
Pre-adaptation
11006July 28th 2:45 pmFirs North/Boise CentreBREEDING SYSTEM AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE COLUMNAR CACTI (Pachycereus pringlei) IN NORTHWEST MEXICO
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Oral PaperFlores , Carina Gutierrez; García-de-León, Francisco Javier; Leon-de-la-Luz, José Luís; Cota-Sánchez, Jorge Hugo.Pachycereus pringlei
Breeding System
Microsatellite
11007July 28th 3:00 pmFirs North/Boise CentreThe effect of breeding on pattern of phenotypic plasticity of two genotypes of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata)
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Oral PaperJaphet , Wisdom Sohunago; Uche, Amadi.Phenotypic plasticity
Selection
Shade avoidance
Stem elongation
Reduced plasticity
July 28th 3:15 pmFirs North/Boise CentreBreak
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11009July 28th 3:45 pmFirs North/Boise CentreDiversification of Bombacoideae (Malvaceae s.l.) associated to pollination
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Oral PaperHernández, Rebeca; Magallón, Susana.diversification
pollination
Bombacoideae
molecular dating
character reconstruction
11010July 28th 4:00 pmFirs North/Boise CentreIs Polyploid Speciation in the Southwestern Desert Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata; Zygophyllaceae) Facilitated by Pollinator Discrimination?
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Oral PaperLaport, Robert G.; Pilson, Diana.polyploidy
flow cytometry
population dynamics
pollinator isolation
11011July 28th 4:15 pmFirs North/Boise CentreIs premeiotic chromosome duplication a significant source of genotypic diversity in apomictic ferns? 
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Oral PaperGrusz , Amanda Lee; Windham, Michael D; Pryer, Kathleen M.apomixis
Döpp-Manton sporogenesis
genetic diversity
subsexual processes
cheilanthoid ferns
Monday, July 28th, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm · Eyrie/Boise Centre
Session P: Contributed Posters: Molecular Ecology Posters
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PME001July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreFlora and DNA barcoding of the vascular plants of the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionGuignardi, Zackary; Neubig , Kurt Maximillian; Majure, Lucas; Whitten, W. Mark; Williams, Norris.DNA barcode
plants
Ordway-Swisher Biological Station
Flora
PME002July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreCan differences in clonal growth explain the dominance of polyploids in diploid-polyploid primary contact zones?
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionSingliarová, Barbora; Zozomová-Lihová, Judita; Mráz, Patrik; Mueller-Schaerer , Heinz; MARHOLD, KAROL.Pilosella
Asteraceae
Compositae
polyploidy
microsatellites
clonal reproduction
PME003July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreCyanus napulifer group (Asteraceae) - a model example of allopatric speciation from Balkan Penninsula (SE Europe)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionOlšavská, Katarína; Slovák, Marek; Kučera, Jaromír; MARHOLD, KAROL.Compositae
Asteraceae
Cyanus
AFLP
Balkan Peninsula
flow cytometry
Multivariate morphometrics
PME004July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreThe Maintenance of Self-Incompatibility in the Face of Genome Duplication
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionLayman, Nathan; Busch, Jeremiah.Self-incompatibility
evolution of selfing
mating system
Genome duplication
polyploidy
Evolution
PME005July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreMorphological and genetic variation in natural Carica papaya populations from Panama
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionMardonovich, Sandra; Tepe, Eric; Moore, Richard.Crop wild relatives
pioneer species
gene flow
PME006July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreChromosomal Variation in Synthetic Polyploids of Tragopogon miscellus and T. mirus (Asteraceae)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionGeraci, Blake; Rodriguez , Roseana; Heo, Kweon; Chester, Michael; SOLTIS, PAMELA S.; Soltis, Douglas E..polyploidy
synthetic 
Tragopogon 
PME007July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreEvolution of gymnosperms into independently evolving higher clades
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionHumphreys , Aelys M; Barraclough, Timothy G; Rydin, Catarina.gymnosperms evolution
Gnetales
cycads
conifers
higher ESUs
PME008July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreGene phylogeny in genomic era: molecular evolution of nuclear xdh gene in Brassicaceae
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionChoi, Sun Ah; Won, Hyosig.Brassicaceae
gene sequence evolution
xdh gene
Phylogeny
Genome duplication
PME009July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreMechanisms of non-random mating in Arabidopsis thaliana investigated by examining pollen competition, on stigmas, by microscopy
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionHammond, Adam T.; Carlson, Ann L.; Swanson , Robert John.Nonrandom mating
Pollen competition
Arabidopsis
PME010July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreThe Role of Synchronous Dichogamy in Promoting Genetic Differentiation in Populations of Canella winterana in the Bahamas Archipelago
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionGarrett, Patrick, C. ; Moore, Richard; Hickey, R. James.
PME011July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreMitochondrial genetic diversity in gynodioecious Lobelia siphilitica
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionAdhikari, Binaya; CARUSO , CHRISTINA MARIE; Case , Andrea L. .Lobelia siphilitica
gynodioecy
mtDNA
male sterility
natural selection
PME012July 28th 5:30 pmEyrie/Boise CentreMolecular evolution of plastid genes in a heterotrophic conifer, Parasitaxus usta (Podocarpaceae)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionGerelle, Wesley; Lam, Vivienne K. Y.; Wulff, Adrien; Hollingsworth, Michelle; Hollingsworth, Peter; Graham, Sean W..Heterotrophic plants
mycoheterotroph
plastid genome
Molecular Evolution

Tuesday, July 29th

Tuesday, July 29th, 1:30 pm to 3:15 pm · Firs South/Boise Centre
Session 28: Contributed Papers: Molecular Ecology 2
Presiding: Mitchell E. McGlaughlin, University Of Northern Colorado
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28001July 29th 1:30 pmFirs South/Boise CentreMolecular evolution of photoreceptor genes between sister species and non-neutral divergence along latitude
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Oral PaperIkeda, Hajime; Gustafsson, Lovisa ; Brochmann, Christian ; Nagatani, Akira ; Setoguchi, Hiroaki.alpine
phytochrome
photoreceptor
allopatric speciation
local adaptation
28002July 29th 1:45 pmFirs South/Boise CentreFirst complete chloroplast genome sequence from Joinvilleaceae (J. ascendens, Poales) shows unique and unpredicted rearrangements
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Oral PaperDuvall, Melvin R.; Wysocki, William P..Poales
Joinvilleaceae
plastome
28003July 29th 2:00 pmFirs South/Boise CentreThe evolutionary ecology of an allopolyploid neospecies, Salsola ryanii
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Oral PaperWelles , Shana Rose; Ellstrand, Norman C.allopolyploid
Salsola
hybridization 
invasive plants
28004July 29th 2:15 pmFirs South/Boise CentreEvolutionary insights from transcriptome comparisons of the serpentine endemic Caulanthus amplexicaulis var. barbarae and its non-serpentine sister species, C. amplexicaulis var. amplexicaulis
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Oral PaperHawkins, Angela K.; Pepper, Alan E. .Brassicaceae
Serpentine soils
Caulanthus
28005July 29th 2:30 pmFirs South/Boise CentreConflicting Evolutionary Signal Among Genetic Markers in the Endemic Acmispon (Fabaceae) of the California Channel Islands
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Oral PaperMcGlaughlin, Mitchell E.; Helenurm, Kaius; Wallace, Lisa.Channel Islands
species tree
gene tree
plastid DNA
nuclear low or single copy genes
Microsatellite
Acmispon
28006July 29th 2:45 pmFirs South/Boise CentreAdaptive potential and trait variation of a widespread grass Andropogon gerardii across a Great Plains climate gradient: Implications for climate change
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Oral PaperGalliart, Matt; Johnson, Loretta; Sabates, Sofia; Tetreault, Hannah; DeLaCruz, Angel; Bryant, Johnny; Morgan, Theodore; Bello, Nora; Baer, Sara; Gibson, David; Wilson, Laurel; Maricle, Brian.
28007July 29th 3:00 pmFirs South/Boise CentreEcological divergence across a mosaic of soils in the Amazonian tree Protium subserratum (Burseraceae)
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Oral PaperMisiewicz, Tracy; Fine, Paul.Tropical Tree
ecological divergence
Adapatation
Amazon
Edaphic specializatin

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