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Sunday, July 8th

Sunday, July 8th
8:00 am to 11:00 pm · Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/Hilton
Session P: Contributed Posters: Molecular Ecology and Evolution Posters
P74001Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonInsight into the population genetics of a metapopulation: a case study of Ceriops tagal (Rhizophoraceae) in the Gulf of Thailand
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionLiao, Pei-Chun; Chiang, Yu-Chung; Huang, Shong; Wang, Jenn-Che.Ceriops tagal
historical demography
gene flow
Gulf of Thailand
metapopulation
P74002Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonIs Kra Isthmus an effective barrier for the gene flow of Ceriops tagal (Rhizophoraceae)?
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionLiao, Pei-Chun; Huang, Shong.Ceriops tagal
Kra Isthmus
land barrier
long distance dispersal
vicariance
P74003Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonGenetic Diversity of Native and Invasive Populations of Centaurea maculosa (Compositae)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionTsirelson, Dina; Kesseli, Rick.Invasive Species
polyploidy
Spotted Knapweed
P74004Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonGenetic Analysis of the Reproduction of Invasive Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia spp.)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionGrimsby, Jonna; Tsirelson, Dina; Kesseli, Rick.Japanese Knotweed
Fallopia japonica
breeding system
Invasive Species
P74005Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonAssessment of Genetic Diversity in Hydrilla verticillata (L. f.) Royle (Hydrocharitaceae) Populations in the United States
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionBenoit, Lori K.; Les, Donald H..ITS
Hydrilla verticillata
invasive
aquatic
Genetic diversity
microsatellites
P74007Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonGametophytic self-incompatibility in Lycium cestroides (Solanaceae) from Argentina
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionMiller, Jill S.; Dhond, Mukta; Bernardello, Gabriel.self-incompatibility
Lycium
mating systems
Solanaceae
S-RNase
P74008Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonThe evolution of the reproductive system of Oxalis alpina in the Sky Islands region (Southwestern USA and Northwestern Mexico)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionPérez Alquicira, Jessica; Dominguez, César.population genetics
phylogeography
tristyly
Pleistocene
P74009Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonIdentifying speciation genes in wild sunflower (Helianthus) species
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionHill, Elizabeth; Church, Sheri A..Speciation
P74011Jul 8, 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 9 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 10 8:00am-11:00pm
Jul 11 8:00am-2:00pm
Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/HiltonVisualizing genomic changes in retrotransposon organization in Helianthus and hybrid species
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionStaton, S. Evan; Moore, Richard C..

Wednesday, July 11th

Wednesday, July 11th
8:00 am to 12:00 pm · Boulevard B/Hilton
Session CP41: Contributed Papers: Molecular Ecology and Evolution I
Presiding: Sue Sherman-Broyles, Cornell University
CP41001July 11th 8:00 amBoulevard B/HiltonMultiple introductions and selection as facilitators of plant invasions: Barbed goatgrass invasions of serpentine soils in California.
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Oral PaperMeimberg, Harald; Rice, Kevin; McKay, John.Multiple introduction
Selection
adaptation
Aegilops triuncialis
CP41002July 11th 8:15 amBoulevard B/HiltonInvasion of ivies (Hedera spp, Araliaceae) in North American coastal forests
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Oral PaperGreen, Adam; Ramsey, Tara; Ramsey, Justin.Invasive Species
Invasive plants
Hedera
Ivy
polyploidy
phylogeography
CP41003July 11th 8:30 amBoulevard B/HiltonPhylogeography of the Central American apetalous clade of Swartzia (Leguminosae): geographic isolation and population subdivision trump dispersal and gene flow in a tropical tree diversification
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Oral PaperTorke, Benjamin M.; Schaal, Barbara A..Swartzia
phylogeography
haplotype network
gene flow
population structure
tropical trees
diversification
Leguminosae
CP41004July 11th 8:45 amBoulevard B/HiltonPhylogeography and historical gene flow patterns in disjunct Quercus across the Sierra Madre Occidental and southern Cordillera of Mexico
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Oral PaperMccauley, Ross A.; Cortes-Palomec, Aurea C.; Oyama, Ken.Quercus
Racemiflorae
phylogeography
microsatellites
Mexico
CP41005July 11th 9:00 amBoulevard B/HiltonEcological and genetic differentiation among closely related species in the Mediterranean: Centaurea L. sect. Dissectae (Compositae).
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Oral PaperGuarino, Carmine; Santoro, Simona; De Simone, Luciana.Centaurea L.
nuclear and chloroplast DNA analysis
Genetic markers
CP41006July 11th 9:15 amBoulevard B/HiltonInteraction between chromosome divergence and isolation by distance in gene flow and speciation: evidence from Carex scoparia (Cyperaceae)
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Oral PaperHipp, Andrew L.; Rothrock, Paul E.; Weber, Jaime A..Cyperaceae
Carex
chromosome evolution
Speciation
population genetics
CP41007July 11th 9:30 amBoulevard B/HiltonVariation in ABNORMAL FLORAL ORGANS (AFO) corroborates a reticulate ancestry for the Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae)
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Oral PaperLindqvist, Charlotte; Albert, Victor A..AFO
ABNORMAL FLORAL ORGANS
YABBY1
FILAMENTOUS FLOWER
Hawaiian Islands
Stachys
Lamiaceae
polyploidy
reticulation
Biogeography
July 11th 9:45 amBoulevard B/HiltonBreak
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July 11th 9:45 amBoulevard B/HiltonBreak
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CP41008July 11th 10:15 amBoulevard B/HiltonThe Evolution of Reproductive Barriers among Species in the Genus Collinsia
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Oral PaperRandle, April; Kalisz, Susan.reproductive isolation
Speciation
CP41009July 11th 10:30 amBoulevard B/HiltonHabitat differentiation and reproductive barriers between sympatric species of Camassia (Agavaceae)
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Oral PaperKephart, Susan; Adler, Constance; Clark-Snustad, Kindra; Gross, Briana.Camassia
Agavaceae
hybrid zones
ecological differentiation
reproductive isolation
Speciation
CP41010July 11th 10:45 amBoulevard B/HiltonMicrosatellite markers reveal a genetic sieve to the multiple origins of Tragopogon allopolyploids
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Oral PaperSymonds, V. Vaughan; Soltis, Douglas E.; Soltis, Pamela S..polyploid
microsatellites
Tragopogon
Speciation
CP41011July 11th 11:00 amBoulevard B/HiltonPunctuated genome size evolution in Liliaceae
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Oral PaperFay, Michael F.; Leitch, Ilia J.; Beaulieu, Jeremy M.; Lysak, Martin A..genome size
evolution
Liliaceae
Fritillaria
phylogenetics
Selection
CP41012July 11th 11:15 amBoulevard B/HiltonCYCLOIDEA gene duplication and diversification during the evolution of the Asteraceae: a stimulus for the radiation of the family?
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Oral PaperChapman, Mark A.; Kanizay, Lisa; Funk, Vicki A.; Burke, John M..Asteraceae
cycloidea
adaptive radiation
gene duplication
Sunflower
CP41013July 11th 11:30 amBoulevard B/HiltonRapid evolution of plastid RNA polymerases in three unrelated flowering plant lineages
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Oral PaperStefanovic, Sasa; Kuhlman, Peter; Calie, Pat; Palmer, Jeffrey D..Annona
Passiflora
Pelargonium
plastid RNA polymerase
rpo genes
CP41014July 11th 11:45 amBoulevard B/HiltonMolecular evolution of rbcL in the mycoheterotrophic Coralroot orchids (Corallorhiza: Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae)
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Oral PaperBarrett, Craig F.; Freudenstein, John.Orchidaceae
rbcL
molecular evolution
Corallorhiza
pseudogene
mycoheterotrophy
mycoheterotrophic
Wednesday, July 11th
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm · Boulevard B/Hilton
Session CP53: Contributed Papers: Molecular Ecology and Evolution II
Presiding: Daniel Potter, University of California, Davis
CP53015July 11th 1:00 pmBoulevard B/HiltonEvolution of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Neotropical Orchids
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Oral PaperSilvera, Katia; Whitten, W. M.; Williams, N. H.; Neubig, K. M.; Winter, Klaus; Cushman, John C..Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)
Orchidaceae
Photosynthesis
Isotopes
Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase
CP53016July 11th 1:15 pmBoulevard B/HiltonPhylogeographic complexity and pre-Pleistocene breaks within Liquidambar styraciflua
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Oral PaperMorris, Ashley B.; Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.; Bigger, Alexandra R.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Soltis, Pamela S..Biogeography
phylogeography
chloroplast DNA
divergence times
Liquidambar styraciflua
Mexican disjunction
CP53017July 11th 1:30 pmBoulevard B/HiltonPhylogeny of self-incompatibility genes in Prunus (Rosaceae)
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Oral PaperPotter, Daniel; Tsukamoto, Tatsuya; Chin, Siew Wai; Iezzoni, Amy F..self-incompatibility
Prunus
SFB
SLF
S-RNase
S-haplotype
GSI
CP53018July 11th 1:45 pmBoulevard B/HiltonPositive selection for single amino acid change promotes substrate discrimination of a plant volatile-producing enzyme
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Oral PaperBarkman, Todd J.; Martins, Talline; Sutton, Elizabeth; Stout, John.
CP53019July 11th 2:00 pmBoulevard B/HiltonLittle Wetlands in the Big City: Microbial Diversity of Vernal Pools in and around Cleveland, Ohio
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Oral PaperCarrino-Kyker, Sarah R.; Swanson, Andrew K..vernal pool
DGGE
urbanization

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