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POSTER SESSIONS See page 16 for presentation schedule
Poster board number is in bold above title. The first author is the presenter. Full abstracts can be found online at drosophila-conf.org
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477C
Deficiency of X-linked inverted duplicates with male-biased expression
and the underlying evolutionary mechanisms in the Drosophila genome.
Zhen-Xia Chen. Center for Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of
Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking
University, Beijing, PR China.
478A
Neo-Y chromosome divergence among populations of Drosophila
albomicans. Chia-Hao Cheng, Hwei-yu Chang. Entomology
department, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan.
479B
Comparative and functional analysis of CTCF binding site divergence in
the Drosophila genome. Eldon Emberly1, Joyce Stamm 2, Nickodemo
Pavoni3, Kyrillos Awad3, Amy Lloyd 3, Brittany Pasierb3, Carlos
Ortiz3 , Sheryl Smith3 . 1) Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
BC, Canada; 2) Biology, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN; 3)
Biology, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA.
480C
Identification of transcriptional regulatory networks using structural
equation modeling along with priori biological knowledge. Justin M.
Fear1, Daniel Campos 2, Sergey V. Nuzhdin2 , Lauren McIntyre1,3. 1)
Genetics & Genomics, Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2) Section of
Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological
Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; 3)
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of
Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
481A
Genomic evidence that heightened gene duplicate accumulation gave a
boost to the energy metabolism of the higher Diptera. Markus H.
Friedrich, Riyue Bao. Dept Biological Sci, Wayne State Univ, Detroit,
MI.
482B
Premature Stop Codon Mutations and Evolution in the Drosophila
pseudoobscura Complex. Kenneth B. Hoehn, Mohamed AF Noor.
Biology Dept, Duke University, Durham, NC.
483C
Birth, death, and replacement of importins in Drosophila. Emily
Hsieh 1,2, Nitin Phadnis2, Harmit Malik2. 1) University of Washington,
Seattle, WA; 2) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle,WA.
484A
A second generation assembly of the Drosophila simulans genome and
its implications for genome evolution studies. Tina Hu1, Michael
Eisen2, Kevin Thornton3 , Peter Andolfatto1 . 1) Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for
Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; 2) Howard
Hughes Medical Institute and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 3) Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine,
Irvine, CA.
485B
Genomic satellite DNA repeats and small RNAs: An evolutionary
analysis of the Responder satellite in the Drosophila melanogaster
genome. Amanda M. Larracuente, Daven C. Presgraves. Biology
Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
486C
Experimental study of evolutionary conflict between the mitochondrial
and nuclear genomes. Aimee J. Littleton1 , Maulik R. Patel1,
Ganeshkumar Miriyala1, Ala Soofian1, Harmit S. Malik 1,2. 1) Basic
Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle,
WA; 2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, WA.
487A
Sex-specific embryonic expression at different stages of sex
chromosome evolution. Susan E. Lott1, Jacqueline E. Villalta 2, Doris
Bachtrog3, Michael B. Eisen 1,2,3. 1) Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ
California, Berkeley, CA; 2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Univ
California, Berkeley, CA; 3) Department of Integrative Biology, Univ
California, Berkeley, CA.
488B
Is the Drosophila X chromosome demasculinized? Colin D.
Meiklejohn, Daven C. Presgraves. Dept Biol, Univ Rochester,
Rochester, NY.
489C
Adaptive Evolution and the Birth of CTCF binding events in the
Drosophila genomes. Xiaochun Ni1,2, Yong Zhang 1, Nicolas Negre2,3 ,
Sidi Chen1 , Manyuan Long1, Kevin White1,2,3 . 1) Department of
Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2) Institute
for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago , Chicago,
IL; 3) Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago,
IL.
490A
Strong evidence of biased gene conversion in Drosophila melanogaster.
Matthew C. Robinson, Eric A. Stone, Nadia D. Singh. Genetics Dept,
NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
491B
Mutation accumulation reveals a large duplication bias and substantial
variation in substitution rates in Drosophila melanogaster. Daniel R.
Schrider1,2, Michael Lynch1 , David Houle3, Matthew W. Hahn1,2. 1)
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; 2) School
of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; 3)
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL.
492C
Classifying the evolutionary causes of nucleotide fixation. Alexander
Shanku1 , Andrew Kern2 . 1) BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University,
Piscataway, NJ; 2) Department of Genetics, Rutgers University,
Piscataway, NJ.
493A
Characterizing the homomorphic sex chromosomes of Aedes aegypti.
Melissa A. Toups1, Matthew W. Hahn1,2. 1) Biology, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN; 2) School of Informatics and Computing,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
494B
Methodological studies on development and duplicate datasets revealed
new evidence for Meiotic Sex Chromosomal Inactivation. Maria
Vibranovski1 , Jun Wang1 , Timothy Karr2 , Manyuan Long1 . 1)
Ecology & Evolution, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2) Biodesign
Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
495C
Conservation and expression pattern of overlapping genes in the
Drosophila genome. Luyi Wo1,2, Yihan Li3 , Stephen Schaeffer1,2. 1)
Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA
16802; 2) Intercollege Program of Genetics, Penn State University,
University Park, PA 16802; 3) Department of Statistics, Penn State
University, University Park, PA 16802.
496A
Insights into the Mechanisms of Intron Gain and Loss Using Drosophila
Genomes. Paul Yenerall1 , Leming Zhou2,3. 1) Department of
Biological Sciences; 2) Department of Health Information Management;
3) Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
PA.