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POSTER SESSIONS
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above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online at drosophila-conf.org
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454A
A Homeodomain-dependent Function in a Rapidly Evolving
Hox
Gene
in Insects.
Alison Heffer, Leslie Pick.
Dept Entomology, Univ
Maryland, College Park, MD.
455B
How different are mosquitoes and Drosophila?—Evolution of mosquito
early zygotic genes.
Wanqi Hu, James Biedler, Zhijian Tu.
Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
456C
Functional genomic analysis of eye development in the red flour beetle
Tribolium castaneum
.
Zahabiya Husain
1
, Anura Shrivastava
1
, Arun
K. Sasikala -Appukuttan
1
, Bryce Daines
2
, Rui Chen
2
, Markus
Friedrich
1
.
1) Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; 2) (2) Human
Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human
Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX
77030, USA.
457A
New models to Diptera development: Clogmia albipunctata and
Megaselia abdita.
Eva Jimenez, Karl R. Wotton, Yogi Jaeger.
Systems Biology Unit, Centre de Regulacio Genomica, PRBB,
Barcelona, Spain.
458B
Common and distinct roles of juvenile hormone signaling genes in
metamorphosis of holometabolous and hemimetabolous insects.
Marek
Jindra
1
, Barbora Konopova
1
, Vlastimil Smykal
2
.
1) Biology Center
ASCR, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; 2) University of South
Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
459C
High Hemocyte Load Is Associated With Increased Resistance Against
Parasitoids in Drosophila suzukii, A Relative of D. melanogaster.
Balint
Z. Kacsoh, Todd A. Schlenke.
Department of Biology, Emory
University, Atlanta, GA.
460A
The effects of temperature on developmental timing in species with
different optimal growth temperatures.
Steven G. Kuntz
1
, Michael B.
Eisen
1,2
.
1) Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of
California, Berkeley, CA; 2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
University of California, Berkeley, CA.
461B
Evolution of Mesoderm Invagination in the Insect Order Diptera.
Steffen Lemke
1
, Silvia Urbansky
1
, Thomas Sandmann
2
.
1) Centre for
Organismal Studies (COS), Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg,
Germany; 2) Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg,
Germany.
462C
Exploring the molecular basis of insect wing evolution: a comparison of
beetle and fly wing development.
David M. Linz, Yoshinori
Tomoyasu.
Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
463A
Evolution of Shape by Multiple Regulatory Changes to a Growth Gene.
David Loehlin, John Werren.
Biology, University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY.
464B
Region specific patterning function of Pax6 in the developing embryonic
head of Tribolium Castaneum.
Qing Luan
1
, Arun Sasikala-
Appukuttan
1
, Markus Friedrich
1,2
.
1) Biological science, Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI; 2) Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
Wayne State University, School of Medicine,Detroit, MI.
465C
X-linkage and the evolution of sex-biased gene expression.
Richard P.
Meisel
1
, John H. Malone
2
, Andrew G. Clark
1
.
1) Dept Molec Biol &
Gen, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY; 2) Dept Biol Sci, Florida State Univ,
Tallahassee, FL.
466A
Expression pattern evolution of three parent genes and their retrogene
copies in
Drosophila
species.
Ryan S. O'Neill, Denise V. Clark.
Biology Dept, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.
467B
The molecular basis of speciation in Drosophila.
Nitin Phadnis, Harmit
Malik.
Division of Basic Science, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center, Seattle, WA.
468C
A possible contribution of
abrupt
in the evolution of beetle elytra.
Padmapriyadarshini Ravisankar, Nagraj Sambrani, Yoshinori
Tomoyasu.
Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
469A
Ecdysone Signaling in Starvation Resistant
Drosophila
.
Lauren A.
Reynolds, Allen G. Gibbs.
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las
Vegas, NV.
470B
Keeping males and females the right size: A closer look at the
mechanisms behind sexual size dimorphism.
Nicholas D. Testa,
Shampa Ghosh-Modak, Alexander W. Shingleton.
Zoology,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
471C
Diverged developmental mechanisms underlying the conserved
morphological structures in insect wings.
Yoshinori Tomoyasu, Tingjia
Lao, Matthew Korth.
Dept Zoology, Miami Univ, Oxford, OH.
472A
Dramatic Expansion and Expression Diversification of the Methuselah
Gene Family During Recent
Drosophila
Evolution.
Mark F.
VanBerkum, Meghna Patel, Dana Hallal, Jeffery Jones, Denise
Bronner, Rami Zein, Jason Caravas, Zahabiya Husain, Markus
Friedrich.
Dept Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit,
MI.
473B
Evolution of morphology and behavior in
Drosophila melanogaster
in
response to predation.
Michael DeNieu, Ian Dworkin.
Zoology &
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI.
474C
Alcohol consumption as self-medication against parasitic wasps In
Drosophila melanogaster.
Todd A. Schlenke, Neil F. Milan, Balint Z.
Kacsoh.
Biology Dept, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA.
475A
Transcriptional profile during pachytene in Drosophila melanogaster
females.
Andrew Adrian, Josep Comeron.
Biology, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
476B
Tracing causative polymorphisms for allele-specific expression in
Drosophila melanogaster.
Daniel Campo
1
, Justin Fear
2
, Lauren
McIntyre
2
, Sergey Nuzhdin
1
.
1) University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA; 2) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.