Earlier this year we brought you coverage of urban evolution talks from SICB, and just last week we covered the International Urban Wildlife Conference. Up next, we will be bringing you urban evolution talks live from the annual Evolution meeting in Providence, Rhode Island from June 22nd – 25th!
It seems hard to believe almost a year has passed since the last Evolution meeting. This conference usually has a strong representation of urban evolution research, and this year is no different. We’ve gone through the schedule and tried to pick out the talks readers here would probably want to check out. We were pretty liberal in what we thought might be related to urban evolution because we didn’t want to miss out on any. Here’s what you have to look forward to each day:
Saturday:
- The strength of plant-pollinator interactions varies across an urbanization gradient (Rivkin, Nhan, Weiss, Johnson)
- A test for transgenerational plasticity in the adaptive divergence of acorn ant thermal tolerance across an urban-rural temperature cline (Martin, Chick, Yilmaz, Diamond)
- Domestic pigeon’s checkered past: using comparative genomics to identify a link between wing color patterning, introgression, and hereditary blindness (Vickrey)
- Urban plant evolution: A case-study with Capsella bursa-pastoris in New York City (Panko & Bunker)
Sunday:
- Assessing the evolutionary response of eastern oyster larvae to exposure to coastal acidification and sewage effluent: a CASE study (Puritz, Harvey, Lotterhos)
- Urbanization influences gene flow and genetic drift (Miles, Rivkin, Munshi-South, Johnson, Verelli)
- Lizards rocked by a hurricane: The ecological and evolutionary aftermath of Hurricane Maria across natural and urban habitats in Puerto Rico (Aviles-Rodriguez & Revell)
- Pavement ants to population genomics: using citizen science to benefit invasion science (Lucky)
- Evolution takes flight: population genetics of feral pigeons (Columba livia) in the Northeastern United States (Carlen)
- The Global Urban Evolution Project: Parallel Adaptation To The World’s Urban Jungles (Santangelo)
- The effect of urbanization on white clover (Trifolium repens) in Los Angeles (Poulos)
- Urbanization shapes differential transcriptomic patterns across populations of a human health pest, the western black widow spider (Miles, Haney, Garb, Ayoub)
- Effects of urbanization on toe pad shape and lamellae size in Anolis cristatellus (Howell, Hagey, Winchell)
Monday:
- Massive behavioral and genomic variation in Aedes aegypti across sub-Saharan Africa (Rose, Sylla, Ayala, Badolo, Akorli, Aribodor, Lutomiah, Ibe, Mutebi, Sang, Crawford, White, McBride)
- Evolution of heavy metal tolerance in a mycorrhizal fungus (Bazzicalupo, Ke, Ruytinx, Coninx, Colpaert, Nguyen, Vilgalys, Branco)
- Landscape-specific effects of host relatedness and connectivity in shaping viral spread and evolution (Fountain-Jones)
- Biogeography of shell morphology in over-exploited shellfish suggests adaptation on human-inhabited islands and incipient lineage bifurcation (Hamilton, Selwyn, Bird, Hamner)
- Urban adaptation in anole lizards of the Greater Antilles (Winchell)
- Human land use impacts gene flow in the biodiversity hotspot Cape Floristic Region, South Africa (Miles, Tassone, Rosenberg, Dyer, Verelli)
- Landscape genetics of an invasive species in an urban-rural landscape (Reed)
- Biodiversity and Invaders on Marine Artificial Structures (Tschijevski)
- Population structure and genetic diversity of Mediterranean geckos (Hemidactylus turcicus) at three separate invasions in central Oklahoma (Thomas, Houmam, Falcon, Kimmel, Fenwick)
- Cities in the Spotlight: Does Tolerance of Artificial Light at Night Promote Urban Invasions? (Thawley, Kolbe)
- Genetic and Seasonal Structure of Weedy Dandelions in Three Massachusetts Populations (Mazumder, Kesseli)
- Urban coyotes are genetically distinct from and less diverse than coyotes in natural habitats (Adducci, Jasperse, Riley, Brown, Honeycutt, Monzon)
Tuesday:
- Pedal to the metal: cities power evolutionary differentiation in acorn ants by accelerating metabolic rate while diminishing its thermal sensitivity (Diamond, Chick, Waters)
- Human influences on Darwin’s finches (Gotanda)
- Predicting evolutionary responses to increasing availability of a micronutrient: multivariate effects of sodium on butterflies (Kobiela, Snell-Rood)
- Evolutionary rescue from extreme chemical pollution enabled by recent adaptive introgression of highly advantageous haplotypes (Whitehead, Oziolor, Reid, Yair, Lee, Jeffrey, Guberman VerPloeg, Bruns, Shaw, Matson)
- Responses to chronic exposure to ionizing radiation in Chernobyl frogs (Orizaola)
Did we miss any? If so, let us know in the comments so we can be sure to add it to our schedules! We will be live blogging the meeting as usual, so check back starting June 22nd to hear about the latest in urban evolutionary research. And if you are attending the meeting, consider blogging a talk or poster for us (new contributors welcome!). Just send me an email and I will fill you in on all you need to know.
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Also Tuesday:
Pedal to the metal: cities power evolutionary differentiation in acorn ants by accelerating metabolic rate while diminishing its thermal sensitivity
(Diamond, Chick, Waters)
Thanks! Will add it to our list!
Thank you! I added this talk and a few more Tuesday talks that I recently found to the blog post above.