Divergence in a harsh world: patterns of microsatellite variation among populations of Drosophila mojavensis.
Charles l. Ross, Therese Markow; University of Arizona

Non neutral admixture of migrant genotypes in African Drosophila melanogaster populations from Zimbabwe
Maximilian Kauer, Daniel Dieringer, Christian Schltterer; Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Phenotypic plasticity, season length, and giant female spiders
Linden Elizabeth Higgins; University of Vermont

Thermal heterogeneity across treeline: implications for local adaptation of Colias meadii butterflies
Jeannie Ann Stamberger; Stanford University  

Evolution of life history strategies in a single patch-type vs. multiple patch-type metapopulation model
Carrie Anne Schwarz, Ottar N. Bjornstad; Pennsylvania State University

Biogeographic history of the North American deserts: coalescent and phylogenetic studies of the longhorn cactus beetles (Moneilema) Suggests a Tertiary, Tropical Origin
Chris Smith, Brian Farrell; Harvard University

Population structure of Chesapeake Bay oysters: cicrosatellite analysis and heterozygote deficiency
Colin G. Rose, Kennedy T. Paynter Jr., Matthew P. Hare; University of Maryland

Genetic diversity of the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus        
Michael Howard Smith, Rick Purdue; University of Georgia

Geographic range limits, local adaptation, and temperature tolerance in a marine snail
Sarah Emilay Gilman; University of California, Davis

Phylogeny and phylogeography of Porites species
Zac Forsman; University of Houston

The phylogeography of new world patellogastropods
 Warren Brian Simison; University of California, Berkeley

Nested clade analysis of phenotypic associations
Mitch Cruzan, Alisa P. Ramakrishnan, Susan Meyer; Portland State University

Phylogeography of the endemic Philippine fruit bats Ptenochirus jagori and Ptenochirus minor
Trina E. Roberts; University of Chicago

Evolutionary history of zebra mussel invasions
Gemma May, Greg W. Gelembiuk, Marina L. Orlova, Carol Eunmi Lee; University of Wisconsin

Congruence between molecular and reproductive characters as evidence for cryptic species within the western fanshell, Cyprogenia aberti (Bivalvia: Unionidae)
Jeanne Marie Serb, Nathan L. Eckert, M. Christopher Barnhart; University of Alabama

Comparing clinal variation between native and invasive populations of the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica
Elizabeth Anne Leger; University of California, Davis

Evolution of intercontinental disjunctions between Asia and the New World: insights from the ginseng plant family
Jun Wen; The Field Museum

Geographic allozyme variation in Atlantic white-cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides
Kristin A. Mylecraine, Peter E. Smouse, John E. Kuser, George L. Zimmermann; Rutgers University

Mutation dynamics in red mangroves: biogeography and environmental stress affects the rate of albinism
Steven Edward Travis, C. Edward Proffitt; USGS National Wetlands Research Center

Out of Africa: biogeography of the flowering plant subfamily Cichorioideae (Compositae)
Vicki A. Funk, Raymund Chan; Smithsonian Institution

Old beginnings and new endings in the biogeography of the Vernonieae (Compositae)
Sterling C. Keeley, Raymund Chan; University of Hawaii

Preliminary insights into the phylogeny of Crassula (Crassulaceae); implications for classification and floral evolution
Mark E. Mort, Jenny Kay Archibald, Fairfield Kristopher; University of Kansas

Disentangling selective factors that act on secondary sexual traits: male coloration in guppies
Nathan P. Millar, Andrew P. Hendry, Michael Kinnison, David Reznick; McGill University

Phylogeography of brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans (Gasterosteidae)
Michelle Yvonne Mattern; University of Toronto

Evolutionary origins of coral reef fish (genus Halichoeres) in the New World: Tethian relict or transpacific colonization?
Paul H. Barber, David Bellwood; Boston University

How birds escaped Armageddon: using phylogenetic history and biogeography to assess the impact of the KT extinction event
Joel Cracraft, F. Keith Barker; American Museum of Natural History

Island arcs, Cenozoic sea level changes and the historical biogeography of the Triacanthodidae (Tetraodontiformes, Teleostei)
Francesco Santini; University of Toronto

Latitude and parasite transmission influence primate disease risk
Charles L. Nunn, Sonia M. Altizer, Wes Sechrest; University of California, Davis

Latitudinal variation in the shape of the species body size distribution: an analysis using freshwater fishes
Jason Knouft; Washington University

Phylogeography of the Etheostoma variatum species group
John Francis Switzer; Saint Louis University

Evolution in class structured populations
James Michael Greenwood-Lee; University of Toronto

Functional evolution of jaws in Central American cichlids
C. Darrin Hulsey; University of California, Davis

Nutritional ecology of an herbivorous reptile
C. Richard Tracy, K. E. Nussear, T. C. Esque, K. Dean-Bradley, K. T. Castle, L. A. DeFalco; University of Nevada, Reno

Reaction norm evolution and tradeoffs during biological invasion events
Carol Eumni Lee, Jane L. Remfert, Greg W. Gelembiuk; University of WisconsinMadison

Redundant mapping and the evolutionary dynamics of complex biomechanical traits
Michael Alfaro, Daniel Imara Bolnick, Peter Cam Wainwright; University of California, Davis

Repeated divergence in shoot allometry and functional morphology in contrasting climates
Katherine Angela Preston, David D. Ackerly; Stanford University

The evolution of warning coloration in the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis
Michael Frederick Westphal; Oregon State University

The structure of the environment and the evolution of correlated traits
David D. Ackerly, Will K. Cornwell; Stanford University

Ancient mariners and recent stowaways: the coevolution of seabirds and their lice
Vincent Stuart Smith, Rod Page; University of Glasgow

Aspects of the role female D. melanogaster play in sperm competition
Paul D. Mack, Daniel Promislow, Nicholas K. Priest; University of Georgia

Coevolution, inertia and multiple hosts in penguins and their lice
Adrian Mark Paterson, Jonathan Banks; Lincoln University, New Zealand

Community structure and coevolution of helminth parasites in pocket gophers
 Hsuan-Wien Chen; Texas A&M University

Cytonuclear coadaptation: fitness consequences of mtDNA introgression from D. simulans into D. melanogaster
David M. Rand, Robert Arthur Haney, Tim Sackton, Lea Sheldahl; Brown University

Gene flow and the coevolution of parasite range
Scott L Nuismer, Mark Kirkpatrick; University of Idaho

Unexpected lack of Frankia sp. strain diversity in root nodules of sympatric populations of actinorhizal Rosaceae and Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae)
Brian David Vanden Heuvel, Daniel Potter, David Benson, Esteban Bortiri; University of California, Davis

Opening Remarks/Introduction
Michele K. Nishiguchi; New Mexico State University

Maintaining the balance between mutualism and pathogenesis: the Vibrio-sepiolid squid association
Michele K. Nishiguchi; New Mexico State University

A molecular timeline for the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes
Debashish Bhattacharya, Hwan Su Yoon, Jeremiah Daniel Hackett, Claudia Ciniglia; University of Iowa

Arms and Tentacles, what does it all mean? A phylogeny of the Cephalopoda using total evidence
Annie Rose Lindgren, Michele K. Nishiguchi; New Mexico State University

Evolution of pathogenecity in Vibrionaceae: a combined approach using molecules and physiology
Vinod Sankunny Nair, Michele K. Nishiguchi; New Mexico State University

Hidden phylogenetic diversity of neotropical treefrogs            
John Joseph Wiens, James W. Fetzner, Tod W. Reeder, Chris L. Parkinson, William E. Duellman; State University of New York at Stony Brook

Molecular and morphological systematics of a group of Acanthocephalan Fish Parasites.
Michelle Lynn Steinauer, Guillermo Ort, Brent B. Nickol; University of NebraskaLincoln

Diversity and stability in communities structured by asymmetric resource allocation
Yssa Dawn DeWoody, Robert K. Swihart, Bruce A. Craig, Jacob R. Goheen; Purdue University

Evolutionary genetics of native Colorado cutthroat trout: a tail of two slopes 
Jessica Lynne Metcalf, Andrew Peter Martin, Jeffry Bond Mitton; University of Colorado

From bet-hedging and sexual selection to the Allee Effect: quantifying the downside of reproductive asynchrony
William F. Fagan, Justin Calabrese; University of Maryland.

Gene flow from crops to wild relatives
 Ralph Haygood, Anthony R. Ives, David A. Andow; University of WisconsinMadison

Lack of host plant association in the biological control agent Rhinocyllus conicus inferred from genetic markers
Annie Frances Paradis, Svata Louda, Guillermo Orti; University of Nebraska

Mitochondrial DNA diversity and population structure of Podocnemis unifilis in the Reserva Nacional Pacaya Samiria, in Amazonian Per: Implications for conservation and biogeography
Tag Nicholas Engstrom, Pekka Soini, Jorge Calvimontes; State University of New York at Stony Brook

A phylogenetic approach to the microevolution of gene regulatory networks in primates
Matt Rockman, Greg Wray; Duke University

Character specific heterochrony drives developmental polyphenism in tadpoles of the spadefoot toad Spea multiplicata
Brian L. Storz; Florida State University

Current evidence and ideas on the evolutionary origin of bacteriogenic light organs in squids
J. E. Lopez, S. Von Boletzky, M. K. Nishiguchi; New Mexico State University

Developmental genes in sponge larvae: Another tile in the mosaic of the first multicellular animal
Claire M. Larroux, Sally P. Leys, Danielle Liubicich, Bernard M. Degnan; University of Queensland

Directional selection on duplicated teleost hox genes
Gunter P. Wagner, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Chris Amemiya, Frank Ruddle, Jutta Roth, Chi-hua Chiu; Yale University

Diversification of SEPALLATA genes in grasses (Poaceae)
Simon Thomas Malcomber, Elizabeth Kellogg; University of MissouriSt. Louis

Phylogeography of the swordtail fish Xiphophorus cortezi
Carla Gutirrez-Rodrguez, Molly Ruth Morris, Matt White; Ohio University

Physiology of geographic variation in life history of the desert lizard, Sauromalus obesus
Christopher R. Tracy, Northern Territory University

The consequences of directed versus random movement for biodiversity patterns and speciation processes
Paul Robert Armsworth, Joan Roughgarden; Stanford University

The ecological development of Lesser Antillean anole spatial diversity patterns
Lauren Beth Buckley, Joan E. Roughgarden; Stanford University

The evolution of brush lizards in Baja California: when mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA disagree
Johan Lindell, Robert W. Murphy, Fausto R. Mndez-de la Cruz; University of Toronto

Vicariance and dispersal: a novel hypothesis for Baja California biogeography
Daniel G. Mulcahy; Utah State University

A comparative study of the color pattern and orientation of birds
Michael John Justice, Josephine Tang, Ashley Wilhite, Amy Lefferdink; Nova Southeastern University

Characterizing behavioral evolution and mating sig
Margaret B. Ptacek; Clemson University

Egg recognition and counting reduce fitness costs of avian conspecific brood parasitism
Bruce Edward Lyon; University of California, Santa Cruz

Evolution of acoustic sexual signals in rapidly speciating New Zealand cicadas
David C. Marshall; University of Connecticut

Evolution of extreme prey specialization in bolas spiders
Todd A. Blackledge; University of California, Riverside

Evolution of the skull in response to digging behavior of fossorial rodents
 Katrina Elizabeth Gobetz; University of Kansas

A gene's-eye view of horizontal and vertical transmission
Jeff Smith; Emory University

A new group of Cytophaga-like bacterial symbionts affects reproduction in parasitic wasps
Steve J. Perlman, S. E. Kelly, M. S. Hunter; University of Arizona

Coevolution of an avian host and its parasitic cuckoo
Maria R. Servedio, Russell Lande; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Life cycles shape parasite evolution as shown via comparative population genetics of salmonid trematodes
Charles D. Criscione, Michael S. Blouin; Oregon State University

Evolution of adhesins in symbiotic vibrios: implications for host specificity and recognition
Johnette K. Browne-Silva, Michele K. Nishiguchi; New Mexico State University

Evolutionary history of C. elegans and interactions with parasites
Hinrich Schulenburg; Institute for Animal Evolution and Ecology, Westphalian WilhelmsUniversity Muenster

Combating the viral Red Queen: viral fitness, virulence, and disease progression in HIV
Louis Mansky; Ohio State University

A molecular view of a biological arms race 
Margaret Riley; Yale University

Sex and the single bacteriumefficient mechanism of intra and interspecies gene transfer by conjugation
Gayatri Vedantum; Loyola University Chicago Medical School

New techniques for detecting reticulate evolution
Tandy Jo Warnow, Katherine St. John, Ruchi Kalra, Luay Nakhleh, Ruth Timme, Randy Linder; University of Texas at Austin

Systematics of Neotropical erigonine spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae): are we making progress?
Jeremy Miller, Gustavo Hormiga; Smithsonian Institution

Systematics of odontocerid caddisflies (Trichoptera): larval and adult character systems
Aysha Lynn Prather; Royal Ontario Museum

One population left: the past, present, and future of the endangered Baker's larkspur (Delphinium bakeri)
Jason Ager Koontz, Holly Forbes; Illinois Natural History Survey

Tracing a bottleneck: comparative phylochronology of C. haigi and C. sociabilis through 7000 years
Elizabeth Anne Hadly, Yvonne Ling-Hsiang Chan, Oliver Pearson; Stanford University

Variance in relative growth rates, phenotypic plasticity and their role in speciesinvasions
Pati Vitt, Bruce Kendall, Jennifer Steinbachs; Chicago Botanic Garden

Zebrafish as a model in conservation genetics: behavioral, morphological, and physiological variation among wild and domesticated strains.
Barrie Dennis Robison, Indiana University

Duplication and divergence of floral developmental genes in the Lamiales
Jan Erik Aagaard; University of Oregon

Evolution of myosin heavy chain genes in fish
Katrina Louise McGuigan; University of Oregon

Evolutionary significance of the ribosomal DNA intergenic spacer in Drosophila
Mariana Mateos, Therese A. Markow; University of Arizona

Evolution goes FAR: possible causes and consequences of fitness-associated recombination
Lilach Hadany, Tuvik Beker; Stanford University

Evolution of facultative parthenogenesis and sex allocation in termites
Kenji Matsuura; Harvard University

Male-killing endosymbionts and the origins of haplodiploidy
Benjamin B. Normark; University of Massachusetts Amherst  

Modes of selection and genetic recombination in Drosophila