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SATURDAY, MARCH 10 8:30 am – 10:15 am
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39
Evolution and Quantitative
Genetics I
Co-Moderators: Mohamed Noor, Duke Univeristy, Durham, North
Carolina and Kelly Dyer, University of Georgia, Athens
Room: Chicago 8-10, Level 4
105
- 8:30
The impact of mutational biases and positive selection on the
distribution of Copy Number Variants among five worldwide
populations of
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Margarida Cardoso-
Moreira, Jennifer K. Grenier, Andrew G. Clark.
Molecular Biology
and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
106
- 8:45
Variation in Genome Structure in
Drosophila yakuba
.
Rebekah L.
Rogers, Kevin R. Thornton.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Thornton Lab, Irvine, CA.
107
- 9:00
Evolution of New Genes with Essential Functions in Drosophila
Development and Reproduction.
Sidi Chen, Manyuan Long.
Dept
Ecology & Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
108
- 9:15
A genome wide association study reveals genetic evidence of the
mutation accumulation theory of aging in age-specific fecundity in
Drosophila melanogaster
.
Mary F. Durham
1
, Michael Magwire
2
, Jeff
Leips
1
.
1) Dept Biological Sci, Univ Maryland, Baltimore County,
Baltimore, MD; 2) Department of Genetics, NC State University,
Raleigh, NC.
109
- 9:30
Strong Purifying Selection at Synonymous Sites in
D. melanogaster
.
David S. Lawrie
1
, Philipp W. Messer
2
, Ruth Hershberg
3
, Dmitri A.
Petrov
2
.
1) Dept. of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 2)
Dept. of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 3) The Ruth and
Burce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Israel.
110
- 9:45
Small-scale Hitchhiking Effects in
Drosophila
.
Grace Y. C. Lee,
David J. Begun, Charles H. Langley.
Ctr Population Biol, Univ
California, Davis, Davis, CA.
111
- 10:00
Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Flightin Reveals a Novel Protein
Motif unique to Pancrustacea.
Jim O. Vigoreaux
1
, Pedro Alvarez-
Ortiz
1
, Felipe Soto
1,2
.
1) Department of Biology, University of
Vermont, Burlington, VT; 2) Illinois Natural History Survey,
Champaign, IL.
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