AMS Special Session: Pulmonates in the Laboratory
Tuesday 8:20 – 10:00

Susan M. Bandoni - Planorbid laboratory stocks: Genetic variability, history and scientific communication.

Thomas P. Smith, Amy R. Wethington, and R. T. Dillon - Evidence of social facilitation from interspecific crosses in Physa.

David K. Britton - The influence of temperature and shell growth rate on shell shape in five inbred lines of the freshwater pulmonate snail, Physella virgata.

Thomas M. McCarthy - Effects of time, predation risk and relatedness on behavior during mating interactions.

Kenneth M. Brown, Kevin R. Carman, and Elizabeth K. Lotufo – What can radio-isotope methods tell us about grazing in Physella?
 
 

Tuesday 10:20 – 12:00

Andrew M. Turner - Nonlethal effects of predators on behavior and growth of Physa integra: comparing mesocosm and field experiments. Multivariate selection and emergent ecological impacts of multiple predators.

R. Brian Langerhans - Plasticity constrained: Overgeneralized induction cues cause maladaptive phenotypes.

Thomas J. DeWitt & R. Brian Langerhans - Multivariate selection and emergent ecological impacts of multiple predators.

Thomas J. DeWitt & R. Brian Langerhans - Morphometrics Workshop—A practical guide to the study of size & shape in ecology and evolution.


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