GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Session No. 46
Sunday, 25 September 2016: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Mile High Ballroom 4AB (Colorado Convention Center)

T140. Evolution, Development, and Paleogenomics

Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research Institution
David J. Bottjer and Jeffrey R. Thompson, Advocates
1:30 PM
RECONSTRUCTED ANCESTRAL ENZYMES SUGGEST THAT EARTH'S PHOTIC-ZONE TEMPERATURE MARKEDLY DECREASED OVER GEOLOGIC TIME
GARCIA, Amanda1, SCHOPF, J. William1, YOKOBORI, Shin-ichi2, AKANUMA, Satoshi3 and YAMAGISHI, Akihiko2, (1)Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, (2)Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0392, Japan, (3)Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Saitama, 359-1192, Japan, agarcia9@ucla.edu
1:45 PM
EMBRYOS AND ANCESTORS: RECONSTRUCTING GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS AND EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT IN ANCESTRAL ECHINOIDS (Invited Presentation)
ERKENBRACK, Eric M., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 850 West Campus Dr, ISTC 112, West Haven, CT 06516 and THOMPSON, Jeffrey R., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, eric.erkenbrack@yale.edu
Handouts
  • gsa2016.pdf (14.8 MB)
  • 2:05 PM
    PALEOGENOMICS OF ECHINOIDS AND THE EVOLUTION OF ECHINOID GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS
    THOMPSON, Jeffrey R., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, ERKENBRACK, Eric M., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 850 West Campus Dr, ISTC 112, West Haven, CT 06516, PETSIOS, Elizabeth, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Pkwy Zumberge Hall of Science, University Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740 and BOTTJER, David J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, thompsjr@usc.edu
    2:20 PM
    UNCOVERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAMBRIAN CINCTAN ECHINODERMS
    RAHMAN, Imran Alexander, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, United Kingdom, O'SHEA, James, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom and ZAMORA, Samuel, Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, C/Manuel Lasala, 44, 9ºB, Zaragoza, 50006, Spain, imran.rahman@oum.ox.ac.uk
    2:35 PM
    A MECHANISM FOR REPEATED EVOLUTION OF AMBULACRAL COVER PLATE ELEMENTS IN ECHINODERMS
    SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 EPS, 1412 Circle Dr., Knoxville, TN 37996-1410 and AUSICH, William I., School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 155 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1398, csumrall@utk.edu
    2:50 PM
    THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSES OF THE RECENT TEREBRATULIDINA (BRACHIOPODA, TEREBRATULIDA) LOOP
    SCHREIBER, Holly A., LOPEZ-CARRANZA, Natalia and CARLSON, Sandra J., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, haschultz@ucdavis.edu
     
    3:05 PM
    Break
    3:20 PM
    PALEOGENOMICS AND PLATE TECTONICS: REVOLUTIONS IN THE EARTH AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
    BOTTJER, David J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, dbottjer@usc.edu
    3:35 PM
    ECOLOGICAL, CONSTRUCTIONAL, AND BIOTIC CONTROLS ON LONG-TERM TRENDS IN AMMONOID SHELL DISPARITY
    CLAPHAM, Matthew E., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, mclapham@ucsc.edu
    3:50 PM
    TESTING FOR CONSISTENCY IN MORPHOLOGICAL SHIFTS ACROSS ENVIRONMENTS FOR AMMONITES OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY
    CHANG, Lucy M., Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780 and YACOBUCCI, Margaret M., Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, 190 Overman Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403, luchang@berkeley.edu
    4:05 PM
    HOW CAN A CHARACTER BE “THE SAME UNDER EVERY VARIETY OF FORM AND FUNCTION”? A GENE REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE (Invited Presentation)
    WAGNER, Gunter Paul, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, gunter.wagner@yale.edu
    4:25 PM
    WHEN DOMES ARE SPANDRELS: ON SEPTATION IN TURRITELLIDS AND OTHER GASTROPODS
    ANDERSON, Brendan Matthew and ALLMON, Warren D., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850; Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, 1142 Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850, bma53@cornell.edu
    4:40 PM
    PROTEIN AND POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION PRESERVATION IN CASTOROIDES OHIOENSIS FROM NEW YORK
    CLELAND, Timothy Paul, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712, SCHROETER, Elena R., Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, FERANEC, Robert S., Research and Collections, New York State Museum, 3140 CEC, Albany, NY 12230 and VASHISHTH, Deepak, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th St, Troy, NY 12182, tcleland27@gmail.com
    4:55 PM
    BABIES WERE BIGGER IN THE JURASSIC: SIZE EVOLUTION IN EARLY DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF CYCLOSTOME BRYOZOANS
    TAYLOR, Paul D., Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom and JENKINS, Helen, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, United Kingdom, p.taylor@nhm.ac.uk
    5:10 PM
    THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON LEAF ARCHITECTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF UNIQUELY HIGH LEAF VEIN DENSITIES IN ANGIOSPERMS
    BARESCH, Andres, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall Bldg 320, Stanford, CA 94305, CRIFÒ, Camilla, University of Washington, Department of Biology, Box 351800, Seatle, WA 98195, JARAMILLO, Carlos, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, APO AA 34002, Balboa, Ancon, Panama and BOYCE, C. Kevin, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 320, Stanford, CA 94305, abaresch@stanford.edu
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