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Tuesday, July 20th

Tuesday, July 20th, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm · Virtual/Virtual
Session MACROI: Contributed Papers: Macroevolution I
Presiding: Andrea Berardi, Harvard University
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MACROI001July 20th 12:30 pmVirtual/VirtualEvolution of pollinator cues across the sand verbenas
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Oral PaperLoPresti, Eric; Weber, Marjorie.macroevolution
Abronia
Nyctaginaceae
pollination
floral traits
MACROI002July 20th 12:45 pmVirtual/VirtualThe origin and drivers of Neotropical plant and tetrapod diversification
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Oral PaperMeseguer, Andrea S.; Michel, Alice; Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A.; Chomicki, Guillaume; Riina, Ricarda; Antonelli, Alexandre; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Delsuc, Frédéric; Condamine, Fabien L..Diversity dynamics
Speciation
Extinction
plants
tetrapods
climate
Andes
Cenozoic
MACROI003July 20th 1:00 pmVirtual/VirtualEvolution of red flower color in North American Silene
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Oral PaperBerardi, Andrea.floral traits
color
anthocyanin
carotenoids
Silene
MACROI004July 20th 1:15 pmVirtual/VirtualPhylogenetic relationships among members of the subfamily Arbutoideae (Ericaceae) inferred from genome-wide SNPs
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Oral PaperRamadoss, Niveditha; McElwee-Adame, Alexandra; Gunther, Kyle; Parker, V. T.; Gonzalez Elizondo, Socorro; Litt, Amy; Flores-Renteria, Lluvia.Arbutoideae  
Ericaceae  
phylogenetics
monophyly
MACROI005July 20th 1:30 pmVirtual/VirtualOn the use of databases in paleobotanical research: triumphs, pitfalls, and good and bad examples
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Oral PaperSimpson, Andrew; Korasidis, Vera.Databases
Paleobotany
Meta-analysis
Review
Bias
MACROI006July 20th 1:45 pmVirtual/VirtualTotal-Evidence dating analysis yields a Late Devonian origin of the complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiopsida, Marchantiophyta) and suggests that current morphological diversity was reached by the Late Mesozoic
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Oral PaperFlores, Jorge R; Bippus, Alexander.Bryophytes
fossils
macroevolution
morphology
Total-evidence dating
Tuesday, July 20th, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm · Virtual/Virtual
Session P2: Contributed Posters: Macroevolution Posters
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P2MC001July 20th 5:00 pmVirtual/VirtualBroad variation in rates of polyploidy and dysploidy across flowering plants is correlated with lineage diversification
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Poster: MacroevolutionZhan, Shing H.; Otto, Sarah P.; Barker, Michael S..polyploidy
Dysploidy
chromosome number
diversification
P2MC002July 20th 5:00 pmVirtual/VirtualMolecular cytogenetic evidence indicating evolutionary relationship between American lymegrass species and their Eurasian and Asiatic relatives
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Poster: MacroevolutionBjornsdottir, Snaedis; Thorsson, Aegir Thor; Sveinsson, Saemundur; Anamthawat-Jonsson, Kesara.Allopolyploidy
Leymus
cytogenetics
Ns genome
Psathyrostachys
Poaceae
Triticeae
P2MC003July 20th 5:00 pmVirtual/VirtualDiversity of western hemisphere Justicia (Acanthaceae) animal pollinator groups
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Poster: MacroevolutionRodriguez, Josephine; Kiel, Carrie; Fisher, Amanda.Justicia
plant-pollinator interactions
Pollination syndromes
flowering plant evolution
pollination
Plant diversity
pollinator visitation

Thursday, July 22nd

Thursday, July 22nd, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm · Virtual/Virtual
Session MACROII: Contributed Papers: Macroevolution II
Presiding: Nora Heaphy, Yale University
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MACROII001July 22nd 12:30 pmVirtual/VirtualDiversification dynamics and evolution of old biodiversity hotspots – the Australian temperate flora has no global analogue
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Oral PaperNge, Francis; Waycott, Michelle; Biffin, Ed; Thiele, Kevin.diversification
macroevolution
Australian flora
radiation
BAMM
GeoHiSSE
biodiversity hotspot
Speciation
tropical rainforests
MACROII002July 22nd 12:45 pmVirtual/VirtualClimate niche evolution in Portulaca, the C4-CAM plant
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Oral PaperHeaphy, Nora; Edwards, Erika J..Portulaca
CAM
C4
Photosynthesis
climate niche
Caryophyllales
MACROII003July 22nd 1:00 pmVirtual/VirtualRocks, climate, substrate, shoots: reconstructing the history of soil and climate preference in the four o’clock tribe (Nyctaginaceae tribe Nyctagineae)
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Oral PaperHumphreys, Emily; Edwards, Caroline; Last, Noah; Tasca, Julia A.; Brunner, Anna; Mikenas, Jessica; Henzler-Lhasawa, Chamden; Douglas, Norman; Flores, Hilda; Ochoterena, Helga; Hernández-Ledesma, Patricia; Nosratinia, Sonia; LoPresti, Eric; Weber, Marjorie; Thulin, Mats; Petersen, Gitte; Friis, Ib; Smith, Stephen; Moore, Michael.Nyctaginaceae
Mirabilis
Commicarpus
Abronia
Boerhavia
Acleisanthes
Gypsophile
Gypsum
edaphic endemism
climate niche
edaphic niche
MACROII004July 22nd 1:15 pmVirtual/VirtualIn defense of Apocynaceae: what can we say about evolution of pyrrolizidine alkaloids from evolution of homospermidine synthase?
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Oral PaperSmith, Chelsea R.; Teisher, Jordan; Kaltenegger, Elisabeth; Moore, Abigail; Straub, Shannon; Livshultz, Tatyana.Apocynaceae
Gene duplication
specialized metabolism
pyrrolizidine alkaloid
tests for selection
MACROII005July 22nd 1:30 pmVirtual/VirtualA comparative approach to understanding floral adaptation to climate and pollinators during Silene diversification
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Oral PaperMiladin, Jenna; Steven, Janet; Collar, David.pollination
floral traits
climate
Silene
macroevolution
MACROII006July 22nd 1:45 pmVirtual/VirtualIntegrating fossil flowers into a large-scale angiosperm phylogeny using model-based approaches
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Oral PaperLópez Martínez, Andrea Monserrath; Magallon, Susana; Jürg, Schönenberger; von Balthazar, Maria; Gonzalez Martinez, Cesar; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Sauquet, Hervé.fossil flowers
phylogenetic analysis
floral morphology
total evidence

Friday, July 23rd

Friday, July 23rd, 10:00 am to 11:45 am · Virtual/Virtual
Session MACROIII: Contributed Papers: Macroevolution III
Presiding: Jonathan Spoelhof, University Of Florida; Heather Kates, University Of Florida
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MACROIII001July 23rd 10:00 amVirtual/VirtualGeitonogamy blurs the distinction between autogamy and allogamy: a case study in Epipactis (Orchidaceae)
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Oral PaperBateman, Richard Mark.Allogamy
Autogamy
Epipactis
floral morphology
geitonogamy
Speciation
MACROIII002July 23rd 10:15 amVirtual/VirtualStigma shape shifting in sages (Salvia: Lamiaceae) – hummingbirds guided the evolution of New World floral features
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Oral PaperKriebel, Ricardo; Drew, Bryan; González-Gallegos, Jesús; Celep, Ferhat; Antar, Guilherme; Pastore, José Floriano Barêa; Uría, Rolando; Sytsma, Kenneth.evolutionary constraint
evolutionary shift
hummingbird
Morphometrics
pollination
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck
secondary pollen presentation
stigma
MACROIII003July 23rd 10:30 amVirtual/VirtualInsights into the evolutionary ecology of grass awns and spikelets within the Andropogoneae
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Oral PaperPetersen, Kurt B.; Minx, Patrick; Biang, Kathrines; Clewell, Sarah; Bookout, Bess; McAllister, Chrissy; McKain, Michael; Kellogg, Elizabeth.Grasses
Ecology
phylogenetics
floral evolution
Dispersal
establishment
seeds
C4  grasses
evolutionary ecology
evolution
MACROIII004July 23rd 10:45 amVirtual/VirtualEvolutionary rate heterogeneity in chromosome count evolution: an application of the ‘hidden rates model’
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Oral PaperSpoelhof, Jonathan; Soltis, Douglas; Soltis, Pamela.chromosome number
Dysploidy
Gymnosperm
modeling
polyploidy
Ancestral State reconstruction
MACROIII005July 23rd 11:00 amVirtual/VirtualIs chromosome number positively correlated with post-zygotic reproductive isolation?
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Oral PaperFinch, Geoffrey; Yang, Yang; Barker, Michael S..chromosome number
Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller Incompatibility
hybridization
MACROIII006July 23rd 11:15 amVirtual/VirtualThe surprising morphological and interspecific variation among stigmas in New World Justicia: Is this remarkable diversity associated with pollination syndromes?
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Oral PaperKiel, Carrie; Tripp, Erin; Fisher, Amanda; McDade, Lucinda.Acanthaceae
Morphological variation
plant-pollinator interactions
Micromorphology
ddRADseq
MACROIII007July 23rd 11:30 amVirtual/VirtualUsing a 13,000-species phylogeny of the nitrogen-fixing clade to reconstruct the origins and evolution of a critical symbiosis
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Oral PaperKates, Heather; O'Meara, Brian; Folk, Ryan; Guralnick, Robert; Soltis, Douglas; Soltis, Pamela.rosids
nitrogen fixation
large phylogeny
Ancestral State reconstruction
hidden markov models

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