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Monday, July 28th

Monday, July 28th, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm · Ball Room & Party Room/SUB
Session P: Contributed Posters: Molecular Ecology and Evolution
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PME001Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBUsing microsatellites to assess seed dispersal in a metapopulation of the epiphyte Tillandsia recurvata (Bromeliaceae) in a Mexican semidesert
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionRamírez-Padilla, Cynthia A.; Valverde, Teresa; Mandujano, Maria.epiphyte
isolation by distance
metapopulation
microsatellites
paternity
dispersal
PME002Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBExplaining Evolutionary Rate Variation in Metabolic Pathways in Plants
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionRamsay, Heather; Ritland, Kermit; Rieseberg, Loren H..metabolic pathway
molecular evolution
evolutionary rates
pleiotropy
PME003Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBPhylogeographic Patterns of Fragmentation and Expansion of the Endemic Perennial Legume Anarthrophyllum desideratum (DC) Benth. in Southern Patagonia
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionWright, Aric B.; Cosacov, Andrea; Paiaro, Valeria; Sérsic, Alicia N.; Cocucci, Andrea A.; Johnson, Leigh A..Anarthrophyllum
phylogeography
Patagonia
Pleistocene glaciations
Nested clade analysis
PME004Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBChromosomal Analysis of Natural Allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionWright, Kirsten; Pires, J. Chris; Madlung, Andreas.polyploid
allopolyploid
cytogenetics
aneuploid
PME005Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBClonal diversity and optimum crosses in Opuntia rastrera Weber (Cactaceae)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionPlasencia López, Lucía María Teresa; Mandujano, Maria.Cactaceae
mating systems
clonal reproduction
clonal diversity
PME006Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBLarge scale phylogeographic study of the Patagonian species Calceolaria polyrhiza Cav. (Calceolariaceae)
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionCosacov, Andrea; Sérsic, Alicia N.; Cocucci, Andrea A.; Sosa, Victoria; Johnson, Leigh A..Calceolaria
Patagonia
phylogeography
Pleistocene glaciations
Nested clade analysis
PME007Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBGenome-wide analyses reveal patterns of increased nonsynonymous substitutions in plastids of the flowering plant family Geraniaceae
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionGuisinger-Bellian, Mary M.; Boore, Jeffrey; Kuehl, Jennifer V.; Jansen, Robert K..Geraniaceae
plastid genome
molecular evolution
PME008Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBChitinases and the Evolution of Plant Carnivory
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionRenner, Tanya; Starkey, Sarah; Specht, Chelsea.molecular evolution
Caryophyllales
carnivorous
Chitinase
PME009Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBMapping landrace genetic diversity in a heterogeneous landscape - the case of Noug (Guizotia abyssinica) in Ethiopia
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionBlack, Scott; Dempewolf, Hannes; Geleta, Mulatu; Bekele, Endashaw; Engels, Johannes M.M.; Rieseberg, Loren H..GIS
crop
Niche modeling
Africa
PME010Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBHybrid fitness in Louisiana Iris
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Poster: Molecular Ecology and EvolutionMartin, Noland H.; Taylor, S.J.; Arnold, Michael.hybridization

Tuesday, July 29th

Tuesday, July 29th, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm · 214/216/SUB
Session 43: Contributed Papers: Molecular Ecology and Evolution
Presiding: V. Thomas Parker, San Francisco State University
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43001July 29th 1:30 pm214/216/SUBKaryotype Evolution and Speciation in Higher Plants: The Genus Crepis L. (Cichorieae, Compositae)
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Oral PaperEnke, Neela; Gemeinholzer, Birgit.Crepis
molecular phylogeny
karyotype evolution
Speciation
43002July 29th 1:45 pm214/216/SUB
Canceled
Phylogeny, congruence testing and linkage disequilibrium: An approach to identify ancient hybridization using the annual sunflower clade (Helianthus)
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Oral PaperMoody, Michael L.; Rieseberg, Loren H..hybridization
phylogeny
Helianthus
43003July 29th 2:00 pm214/216/SUBConcerted or constrained? The evolution of homogenization among rbcS copies in Solanaceae
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Oral PaperMiller, Ryan; Olmstead, Richard.concerted evolution
rbcS
rubisco
Solanaceae
gene family evolution
gene conversion
43004July 29th 2:15 pm214/216/SUBA test of cross-clade, allopolyploid origin for tetraploids in Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae)
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Oral PaperParker, V. Thomas; Reading, Craig.Arctostaphylos
Ericaceae
hybridization
Arbutoideae
allopolyploid
WAXY
RPB2
43005July 29th 2:30 pm214/216/SUBPatterns of morphological and molecular variation in the Corallorhiza striata species complex (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae)
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Oral PaperBarrett, Craig F.; Freudenstein, John.Orchidaceae
Corallorhiza
rbcL
morphology
plastid sequence data
MANOVA
rpl32-trnL
phylogeography
phylogeny
clade
43006July 29th 2:45 pm214/216/SUBTissue-specific silencing of homoeologs in the recent allopolyploid Tragopogon miscellus L
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Oral PaperBuggs, Richard J. A.; Doust, Andrew N.; Tate, Jennifer A.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Soltis, Douglas E..polyploid
evolution
gene duplication
whole-genome duplication

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