| Session | Date/Time | Title | Section | Type | Authors | Keywords |
Monday, August 2nd · 8:30 am to 11:00 am · Peruvian (Cliff Lodge)
Session 8: Contributed Papers: Tropical Biology Papers
Presider: Susana Magallón, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| 8-1 | August 2nd
8:30 am | The Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve at Rancho Kiuic, Yucatan, Mexico: An Introduction to the Reserve and its Flora | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Callaghan, James A., Hayden, W. John. | Yucatan
Puuc
Kiuic
biological reserve
Flora |
| 8-2 | August 2nd
8:45 am | Phytogeography of Kaieteur Falls, Potaro Plateau, Guyana: Floral Distributions and Affinities. | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Kelloff, Carol L., Funk, Vicki A. | biogeography
plant distribution
flora affinities
Guyana
Guiana Shield
Kaieteur |
| 8-3 | August 2nd
9:00 am | Plants dispersed by bats in lowland rain forest of central French Guiana | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Lobova, Tatyana A., Mori, Scott A.. | neotropics
rain forest
seed dispersal
bat dispersal |
| 8-4 | August 2nd
9:15 am | Reproductive output and leaf plasticity in the tropical violet species Viola grahamii | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Cortes-Palomec, Aurea C., Brown, Kim J., Ballard, Harvey. | Viola grahamii
cleistogamy
chasmogamy
Specific Leaf Area |
| 8-5 | August 2nd
9:30 am | Pollination in the New Guniea endemic Antiaropsis decipiens (Moraceae) is mediated by thrips | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Weiblen, George D, Zerega, Nyree J C. | mutualism
reproductive ecology
coevolution
thrips pollination
Castilleae
Ficus |
| August 2nd
9:45 am | Break | Tropical Biology Section | | | |
| 8-6 | August 2nd
10:00 am | Reproductive biology of Symphonia (Clusiaceae) in Madagascar | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Abdul-Salim, K., Andriantiana, J.. | Clusiaceae
Symphonia
reproductive biology
pollination
breeding system |
| 8-7 | August 2nd
10:15 am | Sexual Dimorphism in the Native Flora of New Caledonia | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Vary, Laura B., Schlessman, Mark A., Lowry II, Porter P., Munzinger, Jérôme. | dioecy
New Caledonia
sexual dimorphism
sexual systems |
| 8-8 | August 2nd
10:30 am | Functional aspects of the floral morphology of Central American Saurauia (Actinidiaceae) | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Kelly, Lawrence M.. | Saurauia
Actinidiaceae
androdioecy
functional dioecy |
| 8-9 | August 2nd
10:45 am | Modeling of cone thermogenesis that is associated with pollination by thrips or weevils of Australian Macrozamia cycads | Tropical Biology Section | Paper | Terry, Irene, Roemer, Robert, Chockley, Christina, Jacobsen, Jennifer. | weevil pollination
cycads
thermogenesis
volatiles
modeling
thrips pollination |
Wednesday, August 4th · 8:00 am to 12:00 pm · Peruvian (Cliff Lodge)
Session 41: Contributed Papers: Population, conservation, and ecological genetics
Presider: Helen Michaels, Bowling Green State University |
| 41-1 | August 4th
8:00 am | A sampling strategy for assessing genetic diversity of wild soybean populations using ISSR markers | Genetics Section | Paper | Jin, yan, Lu, Baorong, He, Tianhua. | wild soybean
genetic diversity
sampling strategy
ISSRs
auto-spatial correlation |
| 41-2 | August 4th
8:15 am | Developing microsatellite markers for studying the genetic structure of Phaedranassa schizantha and P. tunguraguae (Amaryllidaceae) | Genetics Section | Paper | Oleas, Nora, Meerow, Alan, Francisco-Ortega, Javier, Kuhn, David. | microsatellite
population genetics
Amaryllidaceae
Ecuador
Phaedranassa
conservation
molecular markers |
| 41-3 | August 4th
8:30 am | Assessing genetic variation in hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) for mapping economically important traits | Genetics Section | Paper | Datwyler, Shannon L, Weiblen, George D. | AFLP
QTL
diagnostic markers |
| 41-4 | August 4th
8:45 am | Evolution of dimorphism: quantitative genetics of ecophysiological traits related to resource acquisition in the gynodioecious shrub Schiedea salicaria (Caryophyllaceae) | Genetics Section | Paper | Culley, Theresa M., Dunbar-Wallis, Amy K., Sakai, Ann K., Weller, Stephen G., Campbell, Diane R.. | Schiedea salicaria
ecophysiology
quantitative genetics
dimorphism
resource acquisition |
| 41-5 | August 4th
9:00 am | The effects of population size and density on genetic variation and mating system in Lupinus perennis | Genetics Section | Paper | Shi, Xiujie, Michaels, Helen, Mitchell, Randy. | genetic diversity
population size
threatened species
microsatellites |
| 41-6 | August 4th
9:15 am | The spatial genetic structure of cytoplasmic and nuclear markers in a natural Ipomopsis (Polemoniaceae) hybrid zone | Genetics Section | Paper | Wu, Carrie A., Campbell, Diane R.. | AFLP
chloroplast DNA
genetic structure
hybridization
Ipomopsis |
| 41-7 | August 4th
9:30 am | Ecological Genetics of the Bromus tectorum-Ustilago bullata Pathosystem: A Role for Frequency Dependent Selection? | Genetics Section | Paper | Meyer, Susan E., Nelson, David L., Clement, Suzette, Ramakrishnan, Alisa. | resistance polymorphism
biological control
cheatgrass
downy brome
head smut disease
SSR
microsatellite |
| August 4th
9:45 am | Break | Genetics Section | | | |
| 41-8 | August 4th
10:00 am | Geographic variation in Atlantic white-cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides (Cupressaceae) | Genetics Section | Paper | Mylecraine, Kristin A., Smouse, Peter E., Kuser, John E., Zimmermann, George L., Struwe, Lena. | Cupressaceae
Allozyme
isozyme
phylogeography
geographic variation
genetic structure
eastern North America |
| 41-9 | August 4th
10:15 am | Postglacial recolonization of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla [Raf.] Sarg.) | Genetics Section | Paper | Peery, Rhiannon, Raubeson, Linda A.. | phylogeography
Tsuga heterophylla
postglacial recolonization |
| 41-10 | August 4th
10:30 am | Conservation genetics of Moore’s Delphinium (Delphinium newtonianum), an Interior Highlands endemi | Genetics Section | Paper | Hardcastle, Edith. | conservation genetics
rare
endemic |
| 41-11 | August 4th
10:45 am | Distinctive pattern of genetic diversity in the insular endemic plant Astragalus nevinii (Fabaceae) | Genetics Section | Paper | Helenurm, Kaius. | allozymes
genetic diversity
Astragalus
conservation
San Clemente Island |
| 41-12 | August 4th
11:00 am | Highly structured populations of a narrow endemic primrose | Genetics Section | Paper | Bjerregaard, Lee S., Wolf, Paul G.. | Primulaceae
primula
gene flow
genetic structure
geographic variation
population genetics
population structure
postglacial history |
| 41-13 | August 4th
11:15 am | Microsatellite loci reveal population genetic history of Crossosoma californicum (Crossosomataceae), an endemic species of the Channel Islands | Genetics Section | Paper | Wallace, Lisa, Helenurm, Kaius. | microsatellite
genetic diversity
Channel Islands
Crossosomataceae
Crossosoma |
| 41-14 | August 4th
11:30 am | Genetic diversity in hexaploid Calamagrostis breweri (Poaceae), a narrow alpine endemic | Genetics Section | Paper | Cronn, RC, Horning, Matthew, Huot, Rebecca. | population genetic diversity
Calamagrostis breweri
chloroplast DNA
AFLP
polyploidy |
| 41-15 | August 4th
11:45 am | Genetic variation in Trifolium bolanderi A. Gray compared with Trifolium longipes Nutt | Genetics Section | Paper | Denton, Renee, Harding, Ethelynda. | population genetics
population structure
Fabaceae
genetic diversity
rare taxa
mountain meadows
Trifolium
isozymes
population genetics of clovers
Sierra Nevada Meadows
strach gel electrophoresis
narrow endemics
Allozyme
starch gel electrophoresis |
Wednesday, August 4th · 1:00 pm to 5:15 pm · Peruvian (Cliff Lodge)
Session 53: Contributed Papers: Chloroplast DNA, cytogenetics and genome size, molecular evolution, and crop-wild plant gene flow
Presider: H. James Price, Texas A&M University |
| 53-1 | August 4th
1:00 pm | Fluorescent length polymorphism (FLP) scanning is an efficient tool for identifying intraspecific chloroplast DNA variation | Genetics Section | Paper | Horning, Matthew, Huber, M. Sue, Cronn, RC. | cpDNA
length polymorphism scanning
population genetic diversity
Purshia tridentata
Calamagrostis breweri
Lilium philadelphicum |
| 53-2 | August 4th
1:15 pm | matK, A Pseudogene or Not? | Genetics Section | Paper | Barthet, Michelle, Hilu, Khidir W.. | chloroplast
matK
transcription
pseudogene
phylogenetics |
| 53-3 | August 4th
1:30 pm | Pervasive RNA editing in hornwort chloroplast and mitochondrial protein coding genes. | Genetics Section | Paper | Duff, R. Joel. | hornworts
rbcL
bryophyte
RNA editing
nad5 |
| 53-4 | August 4th
1:45 pm | RNA editing in a fern chloroplast genome | Genetics Section | Paper | Wolf, Paul G., Rowe, Carol A., Hasebe, Mitsuyasu. | ferns
organelle
plant
Evolution
transcription
intron |
| 53-5 | August 4th
2:00 pm | Comparative chloroplast genomics of legumes (Fabaceae) | Genetics Section | Paper | Kim, Hyi-Gyung, Ruck, Elizabeth, Guisinger, Mary, McMurtry, Vanity, Boore, Jeffrey, Jansen, Robert. | chloroplast genome
comparative genomics
Fabaceae
Trifolium
Medicago
Lotus |
| 53-6 | August 4th
2:15 pm | An effecient method for identifing all chromosome pairs of Veronica persica and other rare plants with small size chromosomes | Genetics Section | Paper | Kharabian, Ardashir, Amirhossein, Darabi. | Cytology
cytogenetics
chromosomes
Karyotype |
| 53-7 | August 4th
2:30 pm | Evolution in angiosperms involved both increases and decreases in genome size. | Genetics Section | Paper | Price, H. James. | genome size
Evolution
phylogeny |
| 53-8 | August 4th
2:45 pm | Genome size evolution of Hordeum (Poaceae) analyzed in a phylogenetic context | Genetics Section | Paper | Blattner, Frank R., Jakob, Sabine S., Meister, Armin. | flow cytometry
genome size evolution
Hordeum
life form
phylogeny
population genetics
speciation |
| August 4th
3:00 pm | Break | Genetics Section | | | |
| 53-9 | August 4th
3:15 pm | Birth, silencing, and various degrees of death in the nuclear and mitochondrial paralogues of cytochrome oxidase subunit 2 of Glycine (Leguminosae) | Genetics Section | Paper | Doyle, Jeff J., Doyle, Jane L.. | cox2
duplication
polyploidy
Glycine
silencing
birth and death |
| 53-10 | August 4th
3:30 pm | Duplication of the AP2 domain preceded the split of the major lineages of the APETALA2-like gene family | Genetics Section | Paper | Kim, Sangtae, Soltis, Pamela S., Soltis, Douglas E.. | AINTEGUMENTA
Amborella
ANT lineage
ANT motif
APETALA2
euANT motif
euAP2 lineage
miR172 |
| 53-11 | August 4th
3:45 pm | Positive Selection And The Molecular Evolutionary Energetics Of Active Suction Trapping In A Carnivorous Plant | Genetics Section | Paper | Jobson, Richard, Nielsen, Rasmus, Laakkonen, Liisa, Marten, Wikstrom, Albert, Victor A.. | Carnivorous plant
Utricularia
Ion transport
COXI
Evolution
Positive Darwinian selection
Respiration |
| 53-12 | August 4th
4:00 pm | S-allele diversity and sequence divergence in horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) | Genetics Section | Paper | Mena-Alí, Jorge I., Travers, Steve, Stephenson, Andrew G.. | cDNA cloning
self-incompatibility
Solanaceae
Solanum carolinense
S-alleles |
| 53-13 | August 4th
4:15 pm | Phylogeny of Eleusine (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequence analyses | Genetics Section | Paper | Neves, Susana S., Swire-Clark, Ginger, Hilu, Khidir W., Baird, Wm. Vance. | finger millet
nuclear ITS
paralogues
polyploidy
pseudogenes
trnL-trnF
trnT-trnF |
| 53-14 | August 4th
4:30 pm | Persistence of crop alleles in wild radish populations eight years after crop-wild hybridization | Genetics Section | Paper | Snow, Allison, Culley, Theresa, Ellstrand, Norman, Uthus, Kristen, Hegde, Subray. | hybridization
crop
weed
introgression
wild radish
transgenic
fitness |
| 53-15 | August 4th
4:45 pm | Impacts of crop-to-wild gene flow: beyond conventional metrics of genetic diversity | Genetics Section | Paper | Campbell, Lesley G., Waite, Thomas A., Bartsch, Detlef. | Allozyme
Beta vulgaris
Species diversity indices
genetic diversity
crop-to-wild gene flow |
| 53-16 | August 4th
5:00 pm | Paper not presented | Genetics Section | Paper | Jayaveeran, Vasu. | |
Wednesday, August 4th · 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm · Peruvian (Cliff Lodge)
Meeting: Genetics Section Business Meeting
Presider: Randall Small, University of Tennessee |
| August 4th
5:15 pm | Meeting | Genetics Section | | | |
