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JMIH 2009 Program 6-15-09.Xlsx 2009 Joint Meeting (JMIH), Portland, Oregon BREAK-OUT SESSIONS AT A GLANCE THURSDAY, 23 JULY, Afternoon Sessions ROOM Grand Ballroom I Grand Ballroom II Pavilion East Pavilion West ROOM SESSION/ SESSION/ ELHS/LFC Connectivity Symposium I Fish Systematics I Fish Genetics I Herp Systematics SYMPOSIUM SYMPOSIUM MODERATOR R WARNER S DeVaney M OSBORNE T JACKMAN MODERATOR 1:30 PM S DeVaney S Parmenter D Mulcahy 1:30 PM INTRODUCTION Phylogeny of Elopomorpha Based on Nuclear and Genetic Characterization and Conservation Status of Basal Relationships Among Squamate Reptiles Based on Mitochondrial DNA Pupfish in River Springs, California 25 Protein-coding Nuclear Loci 1:45 PM P Munday T Fraser A De Los Santos Camarillo - GDM D Cundall 1:45 PM Ocean Temperature, Global Warming And Population Molecular Phylogeny of the Cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) Genetic Structure of the Undescribed Mexican Native Drinking Homologies in Snakes: Another Window on Connectivity Of Tropical Marine Fishes and non-monophyly of Apogon sensu lato Trout: An Assessment with Microsatellite Loci Evolution 2:00 PM S Sogard C Thacker Y Chen J Losos 2:00 PM Temperature Effects on Early Pelagic Stages of Warm Phylogeny of Cardinalfishes (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Genetic Relationships of Tui Chubs in Southwestern Great The Geography of Adaptive Radiation: Island vs. Mainland Temperate Fish Species and Consequences for Apogonidae) and the Evolution of Visceral Basin and Management Plans for the Mohave Tui Chub Diversification in Anolis Lizards Connectivity Patterns Bioluminescence 2:15 PM I Hunt von Herbing R Chabarria J Eichelberger D Leavitt 2:15 PM Preliminary Phylogeny of the Atlantic Members of the Development of SNP Markers to Differentiate Pallid and Phylogenetic Relationships Among Alligator Lizards of the Connectivity and Conservation Physiology in Cold-Oceans Goby Genus Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) Shovelnose Sturgeons and their Putative Hybrids Genus Elgaria: A Multi-locus DNA Sequence Approach 2:30 PM J Atema S Willis W Clark E Stanley - GH 2:30 PM A Species Level Phylogeny of the Cordylidae (Squamata) Olfactory Imprinting Can Lead to Small Scale Population Testing Species Boundaries and Phylogeny in Satan’s Landscape Genetics of White Sucker (Catostomus as Inferred from Five Nuclear and Three Mitochondrial Structure Fishes (Cichlidae) Using Unlinked Gene Genealogies commersoni) in North Dakota and Minnesota Genes 2:45 PM R Cowen M Davis - GI M Osborne T Jackman 2:45 PM Integrating Molecular Evolution and Morphology to Study Perception versus reality: Does larval biology differ with Multi-locus Major Histocompatibility Complex Class IIb the Evolutionary History of Deep Sea Character Phylogenetic Relationships of the "Gekko Group" Geckos latitude? and Parasite Diversity in the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Adaptations of Lizardfishes and their Allies 3:00 PM BREAK - Exhibit Hall 3:00 PM SESSION/ SESSION/ ELHS/LFC Connectivity Symposium I Fish Systematics I Fish Genetics I Herp Systematics SYMPOSIUM SYMPOSIUM MODERATOR J CASELLE N Lang Ma DOUGLAS T GRANT MODERATOR 3:30 PM J Leis D Roje - GDM Ma Douglas T Grant 3:30 PM Mitigating the Effects of Substitution Saturation on How Do Biogeography and Study Species Influence Range-wide Population Structure in a Long-lived Species, The Phylogeny of Chemical Defense in Poison Frogs Phylogeny Estimation: A Case Study from the Molecular Connectivity? the Bluehead Sucker (Catostomus discobolus) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) Phylogenetics of the Flatfish Family Pleuronectidae 3:45 PM A Shanks C Dillman L Horth D Blackburn 3:45 PM Overlooked Utility of mtDNA Sequence Data in Native Biased Sex-Ratio (and Color-Morph Ratio) is Associated A Quantitative Analysis of Ecomorphological Evolution in Pelagic Larval Duration and Dispersal Distance Trout? Insights from the Native Fauna From Mexico with Melanic Color Pattern in Eastern Mosquitofish the Frog Genus Kaloula (Anura: Microhylidae) 4:00 PM R Vetter D Halas - GI M Juan Jorda J Streicher 4:00 PM Phylogenetic Placement of Type and Rare Specimens A Multi-Gene Phylogeny of the Notropis rubellusSpecies Darwin’s Hammer: Larval Mortality and Population Comparative Analysis of the Life History Traits in the Using a priori Hypotheses from Molecular Data: A Case group: Patterns of Diversification in the Central Highlands Persistence in an In-Temperate World Scombridae Family Study using Direct-developing Frogs (Anura: of North America Craugastoridae) from Northern Central America 4:15 PM I Bradbury N Lang Z Baldwin - GDM M Heinicke 4:15 PM Population Genetics of the Bathypelagic Shining Tube- Ocean Temperature Determines Dispersal Potential and Molecular Systematics of the Agonostomatine Mullets Relationships, Divergence Times, and Evolutionary Shoulder, Maulisia microlepis, Along the Northern Mid- Adaptive Connectivity in a North Temperate Marine Fish (Teleostei: Mugilidae) History of West Indian Eleutherodactylus Atlantic Ridge (40ºN – 60ºN) 4:30 PM M Miller D Lumbantobing - G E Carson D Beamer 4:30 PM Perspectives on the Population Connectivity of Tropical Phylogenetic Analysis of Rasbora (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) Genetic Studies of Hatchery-Supplemented Populations of A Comprehensive, Range-wide Molecular Phylogenetic Diadromous Fishes Based on Morphological Characters Red Drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, in Four Texas Bays Survey of the Dusky Salamanders (Desmognathus) 4:45 PM R McDowall M Johansson - GDM K Klymus 4:45 PM Diadromy, Recruitment, Expatrial Dispersal and Pheromone Receptor Gene Diversity in Rockfishes (Genus The Canyon Treefrog, Hyla arenicolor, Unraveling a Colonisation in the Fish Faunas of Island Streams Sebastes) Cryptic Species 5:00 PM Discussion 5:00 PM GDM = ASIH Stoye Genetics Development & GI = ASIH Stoye General Ichthyology GH = ASIH Stoye General Herpetology Morphology 17 2009 Joint Meeting (JMIH), Portland, Oregon BREAK-OUT SESSIONS AT A GLANCE THURSDAY, 23 JULY, Afternoon Sessions ROOM Parlor ABC Galleria North Galleria South Broadway I & II ROOM SESSION/ SESSION/ AES Gruber Award I SSAR Seibert Ecology Award AES Behavior & Morphology Amphibian Pathogen Ecology SYMPOSIUM SYMPOSIUM MODERATOR S KAJIURA R SAPORITO M HEUPEL D OLSON MODERATOR 1:30 PM J Vaudo L Isaac M Heupel 1:30 PM Exploring Relationships between Garter Snake Color Foraging Ecology of a Nearshore Australian Batoid Pattern and Behavior: A Comparison of Phenotypically Preliminary Analysis of Grey Reef Shark Movements on Community Inferred from Stable Isotopic Analysis Variable Populations of Wandering Garter Snake, the Great Barrier Reef 1:45 PM E Brooks T Hagey J Franks B Metts 1:45 PM Diel Movements of a Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Seasonal Abundance, Demographics and Habitat Use of Cruise Foraging of Invasive Chameleon (Chamaeleo (Sphyrna lewini) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico as Effects Of Coal Combustion Wastes On Larval the Caribbean Reef Shark (Carcharhinus perezi) in the jacksonii xantholophus) in Hawai’i Determined by High-Rate Pop-Up Satellite Archival Amphibians North East Exuma Sound, The Bahamas. Tagging 2:00 PM L Howey D Paoletti N Whitney D Olson 2:00 PM Comparative Habitat Utilization of the Blue Shark Recognition of an Introduced Predator by Foothill Yellow- Biologging Love: Identifying Shark Mating Behavior Using Amphibian Chytrid Fungus: Global Patterns (Prionace glauca) and Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) legged Frog Tadpoles a Three-dimensional Acceleration Data Logger 2:15 PM A Maljkovic K Landolt J Gardiner M Venesky 2:15 PM Hey, Where's My Dinner Gone? Fishing and the Trophic Predator Presence and the Facultatively Paedomorphic Pathogenicity of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidisin Larval Odor Orientation Behavior in Sharks Consequences for Caribbean Reef Sharks Mole Salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum Ambystomatid Salamanders 2:30 PM K Jirik M Ryan P Klimley B Rothermel 2:30 PM Influence of Temperature on the Habitat Use and Ecological Impacts of Tiger Salamander Hybridization: Hotspots within Hotspots? Aggregations of Pelagic Fishes Disease Dynamics of Pond-breeding Amphibians at a Movement Patterns of Round Stingrays in a Southern Invasive Genotypes Impact Native Amphibians at Southeastern Corner of Wolf Island, Galapagos Blue Ridge Mountains Site in Georgia, USA California Estuary 2:45 PM T Farrugia G Hopkins C Meyer E Muths 2:45 PM Anti-Predator Granular Gland Skin Secretions of the Testing a New Long-term Fine-scale Positional System First Use of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Network (MP2P) Survival with Disease: Toad Populations in the Rocky Long-toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) in for Tracking Multiple Fish Simultaneously Technology on a Marine Animal Mountains its Northern Range. 3:00 PM BREAK - Exhibit Hall 3:00 PM SESSION/ SESSION/ AES Gruber Award I SSAR Seibert Ecology Award AES Behavior & Morphology Amphibian Pathogen Ecology SYMPOSIUM SYMPOSIUM MODERATOR S KAJIURA H MUSHINSKY M HEUPEL M GRAY MODERATOR 3:30 PM S Kessel P Wheatley E Hoffmayer M Gray 3:30 PM Habitat Preferences and Movement Patterns of Dusky Movements and Migrations of the Jupiter Lemon Sharks Estimating Long-term Diets of Alligators from Rockefeller (Carcharhinus obscurus) and Silky (Carcharhinus Ranaviruses in Southern Appalachian Salamanders (Negaprion brevirostris) Wildlife Refuge Using Stable Isotope Analysis falciformis) Sharks in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Preliminary Results 3:45 PM K Stump J Bauder D Fox J Hoverman 3:45 PM Applying Individual-Based Modeling Techniques to Coastal Movements of Sand Tiger Sharks (Carcharias Movements of Prairie Rattlesnakes in a Mountainous Anuran susceptibilities to
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