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2012 ASN Election Now Open

Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:20 — Trish

The 2012 American Society of Naturalists election for new officers (President, Vice-President, and Secretary) is now open. If you are a member of the ASN and you did not receive an e-mail linking you to the election site, please contact the ASN (mailto:asn@press.uchicago.edu) 

ASN Graduate Student Travel Award 2012

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:35 — Trish

The American Society of Naturalists will award $500 each to 15 graduate students to help defray the cost of attending the 2012 meetings in Ottawa. Awards will be chosen from a random drawing of eligible students who apply via the registration form online. To be eligible, student must be a student member of the American Society of Naturalists, must be presenting a paper or poster at the meeting, and must not have received the travel award in the previous year. 

The Role of Physical Barriers in the Location of Avian Suture Zones in the Guiana Shield, Northern Amazonia

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:55 — AmNat

Luciano Nicolas Naka (Louisiana State University and Universidade Federal de Roraima, Brazil), Catherine L. Bechtoldt (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil), L. Magalli Pinto Henriques (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil), and Robb T. Brumfield (Louisiana State University)

April 2012

Effects of Territory Competition and Climate Change on Timing of Arrival to Breeding Grounds: A Game-Theory Approach

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:50 — AmNat

Jacob Johansson and Niclas Jonzén (Lund University)

April 2012

Evolutionary games affect how much migratory birds adapt to climate change

Genetic Versus Census Estimators of the Opportunity for Sexual Selection in the Wild

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:49 — AmNat

Stacey J. Dunn, Lisette P. Waits, and John A. Byers (University of Idaho)

April 2012

Census estimators are insufficient alternatives to genetic pedigrees when quantifying sexual selection

The existence of a direct link between the intensity of sexual selection and mating system type is widely accepted. However, the quantification of sexual selection has proven problematic. Several behavioral and census estimators of sexual selection have been proposed, but a new study suggests that these estimators may be insufficient alternatives to using genetic pedigrees to quantify sexual selection.

Classification Tree Methods Provide a Multifactorial Approach to Predicting Insular Body Size Evolution in Rodents

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:46 — AmNat

Paul A. P. Durst and V. Louise Roth (Duke University)

April 2012

Under which circumstances should body size evolve up or down in island rodents?

Rapid Adaptive Evolution of Photoperiodic Response during Invasion and Range Expansion across a Climatic Gradient

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:44 — AmNat

Jennifer Urbanski (Georgetown University), Motoyoshi Mogi (Saga University), Deborah O’Donnell (Georgetown University), Mark DeCotiis (Georgetown University), Takako Toma (University of the Ryukyus, Japan), and Peter Armbruster (Georgetown University)

April 2012

Detecting the Molecular Signature of Social Conflict: Theory and a Test with Bacterial Quorum Sensing Genes

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:16 — AmNat

J. David Van Dyken and Michael J. Wade (Indiana University)

April 2012

What can bioinformatics tell us about the evolution of social conflict?

Generalized Movement Strategies for Constrained Consumers: Ignoring Fitness Can Be Adaptive

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:14 — AmNat

Theodore E. Galanthay and Samuel M. Flaxman (University of Colorado)

April 2012

Successful habitat selection strategies may include ignoring some sources of information

Phylogenetic Signal in Module Composition and Species Connectivity in Compartmentalized Host-Parasite Networks

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:05 — AmNat

Boris R. Krasnov (Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Miguel A. Fortuna (Princeton University), David Mouillot (Université Montpellier 2 and James Cook University), Irina S. Khokhlova (Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, French Associates Institute of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Georgy I. Shenbrot (Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), and Robert Poulin (University of Otago)

April 2012
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