Noonan,
J. P. et al. 2008. Sequencing and analysis of
Neanderthal genomic DNA. Science 314:1113-1118. [poster topic:
Neanderthal DNA]
Gheselli, F. et al. 2007.
The Leptynia
hispanica species complex (Insecta Phasmida):polyploidy,
parthenogenesis,
hybridization and more. Mol. Ecol. 16: 4256-4268. [poster topic:
speciation by
polyploidy in insects]
Espinoza, R. E. et al. 2004.
Recurrent evolution of herbivory
in small, cold-climate lizards: Breaking the ecophysiological rules of
reptilian herbivory. PNAS USA 101: 16819-16824. [Poster topic: origin
of
herbivory in lizards]
Blackledge,
T. A. and R.
G. Gillespie. 2004.
Convergent evolution of behavior in an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian
web-building spiders. PNAS USA 101: 16228-16233. [Poster topic:
evolution of
web-building behavior in spiders]
Britten, R. J. 2006.
Almost all human genes
resulted from ancient duplication. PNAS USA 103: 19027-19032. [Poster
topic:
gene duplication in humans]
Byers,
J. A. and L. Waits.
2006. Good genes
sexual selection in nature. PNAS USA 103: 16343-16345. [Poster topic:
good
genes hypothesis]
Harlin-Cognato,
A. et al. 2006. Gene cooption
without duplication during the evolution of a male-pregnancy gene in
pipefish.
PNAS USA 103: 19407-19412. [Poster topic: evolution of male pregnancy
in
pipefish]
Jordan, L. A. et al. 2008. Cheating honeybee workers produce royal offspring. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 275: 345-351. [Poster topic: cooperation and conflict in social insects]
Wiens, J. J. et al. 2006. Rapid diversification, incomplete isolation, and the ‘speciation clock’ in North American salamanders (genus Plethodon): testing the hybrid swarm hypothesis of rapid radiation. Evolution 60: 2585-2603. [Poster topic: rapid speciation in salamanders]
Silberman, J. D. et al.
2002. Retortamonad
flagellates are closely related to diplomonads- Implications for the
history of
mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19:
777-786.
[Poster topic: origin of amitochondrial eukaryotes]
Salzburger, W. et al.
2005. Out of
Tanganyika: Genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and
phylogeography
of the haplochromine cichlid fishes. BMC
Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:17. [Poster topic: rapid
speciation of cichlids in East Africa]
Charmantier, A. et
al. 2006. Quantitative genetics of age at reproduction in wild swans:
Support
for antagonistic pleiotropy models of senescence. PNAS USA 103:
6587-6592.
[Poster topic: evolution of senescence]
Sogin, M. L. et
al. 2006. Microbial diversity in
the deep sea and the underexplored ‘rare biosphere.’ PNAS USA 103:
12115-12120.
[Poster topic: estimating global biodiversity]
Gompert,
Z. et al. 2006.
Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat. Science 314:
1923-1925.
[Poster topic: hybrid speciation]
Wilde, S. A. et al. 2001. Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago. Nature 409: 175-178. [Poster topic: dating the oldest rocks on the planet]
DaCosta, J. M. and J. Klicka. 2008. The Great American
Interchange in birds: a phylogenetic perspective with the genus Trogon. Molecular Ecology 17: 1328-1343. [Poster
topic: Great American Interchange]
Good, J. M. et
al. 2008. Ancient hybridization
and mitochondrial capture between two species of chipmunks. Molecular
Ecology
17: 1313-1327. [Poster topic: hybridization in mammals]
Remigio, E. A.
and T. F. Duda, Jr. 2008. Evolution
of ecological specialization and venom of a predatory marine gastropod.
Molecular Ecology 17: 1156-1162. [Poster topic: evolution of ecological
specialization]
Voje, K. L. et
al. 2009. Climatic change as an
engine for speciation in flightless Orthoptera species inhabiting
African
mountains. Molecular Ecology 18: 93-108. [Poster topic: climate change
and
speciation]
Pal,
C. et al. 2007. Coevolution with viruses drives the
evolution of bacterial mutation rates. Nature 450: 1079-1081. [Poster
topic:
evolution of mutation rates]
Thewissen,
J. G. M. 2007. Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls
in the Eocene epoch of India. Nature 450: 1190-1194 (plus supplement).
[Poster
topic: fossil whales]
Carbonell,
E. 2008. The first hominin of Europe. Nature
452: 465-469 (plus supplement). [Poster topic: first European
humans]
Santorelli, L. A. et al.
2008. Facultative cheater
mutants reveal the
genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae. Nature 451:
1107-1110
(plus supplement). [Poster topic: cooperation and conflict in social
amoebae]
Simmons, N. B. et al. 2008. Primitive Early Eocene bat from
Wyoming and the evolution
of flight and echolocation. Nature 451: 818-821 (plus supplement).
[Poster
topic: evolution of flight in bats]
Martin,
F. et al. 2008. The genome of Laccaria bicolor
provides insights into mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature 452:
88-92 (plus supplement). [Poster topic: evolution of mycorrhizal
symbioses]
Gaucher, E. A. et al. 2008. Palaeotemperature trend for
Precambrian life inferred
from resurrected proteins. Nature 451: 704-707 (plus supplement).
[Poster
topic: early microbial cellular life]
Idnurm,
A. et al. 2008. Identification of the sex genes
in an early diverged fungus. Nature 451: 193-196 (plus supplement).
[Poster
topic: mating systems in fungi]
Mulkidjanian, A. Y. et al. 2006. The cyanobacterial genome core and the origin of photosynthesis. PNAS USA 103: 13126-13131. [Poster topic: origin of photosynthesis]
Hofmann, H. J.
et al. 2008. Ediacaran
biota on Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of
Paleontology 82:
1-36. [Poster topic: Ediacaran fauna]
Angielczyk, K. D. and M. L. Walsh. 2008. Patterns in the evolution of nares size and secondary palate length in anomodont therapsids (Synapsida): implications for hypoxia as a cause of end-Permian tetrapod extinctions. Journal of Paleontology 82: 528-542. [Poster topic: End-Permian mass extinctions]
Skinner,
A. et al. 2008.
Rapid and repeated
limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 310.
[Poster topic:
limb loss in lizards and snakes]
Hasan, A. U. et al. 2008.
Genetic diversity
in two sibling species of the Anopheles punctulatus group of mosquitoes on Guadalcanal
in the Solomon Islands. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 318. [Poster topic: sibling
species]
Carmona, F. D.
et al. 2008. The molecular basis
of defective lens development in the Iberian mole. BMC Biology 6: 44.
[Poster
topic: pax6 genes and eye development]
Lalueza-Fox,
C. et al. 2008. Genetic
characterization of the ABO blood group in Neandertals. BMC Evol. Biol.
8: 342.
[Poster topic: evolution of human ABO blood groups]
Friedman,
M. 2008. The evolutionary origin of flatfish
asymmetry. Nature 454: 209-212. [Poster topic: how did flatfish get
flat?]
Marín, I. 2008. Ancient Origin of the Parkinson Disease Gene LRRK2. Mol. Evol. 67: 41-50. [Poster topic: origin of human genetic diseases]
Adler,
D. S. et al. 2008. Dating the
demise: Neandertal extinction and the
establishment of modern humans in the southern Caucasus. J. Human Evol.
55:
817-833. [Poster topic: Neanderthal extinction in Europe]
Halverson, M. S.
and D. A.
Bolnick. 2008. An ancient
DNA test of a
founder effect in Native American ABO blood group frequencies. Am. J.
Phys.
Anthropol. 137: 342-347. [Poster topic: population genetics of Native
American
populations]
Carrier, D. R. 2007. The
short legs of great
apes: evidence for aggressive behavior in Australopiths. Evolution 61:
596-605.
[Poster topic: comparative behaviors of Hominins and Australopithecines]
Rumphoa, M. E.
et al. 2008. Horizontal gene
transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica. PNAS USA 105:
17867–17871. [Poster topic: symbiosis and
horizontal gene transfer]
Eckhart,
L. 2008.
Identification of reptilian
genes encoding hair keratin-like proteins suggests a new scenario for
the
evolutionary origin of hair. PNAS USA 105: 18419–18423. [Poster topic:
origin
of mammals]
Hershberg, R. 2008. High functional diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis driven by genetic drift and human demography. PLoS Biol 6: 311. [Poster topic: evolution in Mycobacterium tuberculosis]
Brazeau,
M. D. 2009. The braincase and jaws of a Devonian
‘acanthodian’ and modern gnathostome origins. Nature 457: 305-308.
[Poster
topic: early jawed vertebrates]
Christiansen, P. and J. H.
Mazák. 2009. A
primitive Late Pliocene cheetah, and evolution of the cheetah lineage.
PNAS USA
106: 512-515. [Poster topic: evolution and conservation of the cheetah
lineage]
Gentile,
G. 2009. An
overlooked pink species
of land iguana in the Galápagos. PNAS USA 106: 407-511. [Poster
topic: Galápagos
iguanas]
Xu, X. et al. 2009. A new feather
type in a nonavian theropod and the
early evolution of feathers. PNAS USA 106: 832-834. [Poster
topic:
feathered dinosaurs]