The Evolution of Thermal Reaction Norms for Growth Rate and Body Size in Ectotherms
Symposium organized by Michael J. Angilletta Jr.
Sponsored by DEE
Preliminary Schedule
Day 1
8:20 Opening Remarks-Mike Angilletta
8:30 Kyle Ashton
9:00 George Gilchrist
9:30 Wolf Blanckenhorn
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Goggy Davidowitz
11:00 Brian Bayne
11:30 Mike Sears
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Day 2
8:30 Jan Kozlowski
9:00 David Conover
9:30 Joel Kingsolver
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Karl Gotthard
11:00 Jamie Gillooly
11:30 Mike Angilletta
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Participants & Titles of Presentations:
Kyle G. Ashton, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
http://www.archbold-station.org/abs/staff/kashton/kashton.htm
Are there general body size-latitude (and temperature) trends in vertebrates?
George W. Gilchrist, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Is plasticity an adaptation? Body size as a function of temperature within and among parallel clines in Drosophila subobscura
Wolf Blanckenhorn, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.unizh.ch/zoolmus/eAbteilung_Ward.html#Blanckenhorn
Bergmann's rule, the converse and countergradients: clinal body size variation in the yellow dung fly
Goggy Davidowitz, University of Arizona, Tucson
The Phsyiological Basis of Reaction Norms: Where Developmental Rate and Duration of Development Connect
Brian L. Bayne, retired, United Kingdom
Environmental and genetic correlates of growth plasticity in bivalve mollusks
Michael W. Sears, Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Geographic variation in growth and body size in squamate reptiles: patterns and processes
Jan Kozlowski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
The meaning of terms "growth rate" and "adult size" in determinate and indeterminate growers
David O. Conover (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/pages/Lab/DOC/index.html
Countergradient variation and the evolution of growth rate: lessons from silverside fishes
Joel G. Kingsolver, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/kingsolver
Genetic variation and selection on size and growth in fluctuating thermal environments
Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.unine.ch/zool/leae/staff/karl_gotthard.html
Optimal body size and growth strategies in temperate butterflies
James F. Gillooly, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The central role of metabolism from genes to ecosystems
Michael J. Angilletta Jr. (Indiana State University, Terre Haute)
http://oeb.indstate.edu/faculty/Angilletta.htm
Temperature, growth rate, and body size in ectotherms: fitting pieces of a life-history puzzle