With Evolution 2018 kicking off this Saturday in Montpellier, we are putting out a last minute call for bloggers to help us cover the 9 anole talks/posters! Will you be attending? Want to contribute to the blog? Send me a message at kmwinchell@wustl.edu! We are happy to have you join the team whether or not you have blogged for us before!

For those of you following along at home, here’s a sneak peek of the action:

Kicking off the anole posters during the first poster session on Sunday will be Winter Beckles (“Habitat partitioning and signal divergence among non-native bark anoles in South Florida”), Colin Donihue (“How does an adaptive radiation begin? Contingency and determinism in Anolis sagrei ecological specialization”), and Timothy Thurman (“Phenotypic change in response to introduced predators and competitors: a field experiment with Anolis lizards”).

Monday starts off bright and early with a talk by Guin Wogan (“Replicated landscape level epigenomics and genomics of two Greater Antillean trunk-ground Anolis lizards”), followed by an afternoon talk by Carlos Infante (“Regulatory evolution, development, and convergence among Anolis lizards”). There is also a talk slated for Monday afternoon by Tony Gamble on “Sex chromosome evolution in lizards and snakes,” which I hear may feature some anoles, but will focus more generally on squamates.

All the rest of the anole action happens on Tuesday, starting with a talk by Shane Campbell-Staton (“Selection on thermal plasticity facilitates adaptation of city lizards to urban heat islands”), and ending with 3 posters during the evening poster session by Claire Dufour (“Evolution of the agonistic behavior as a first response to the recent interspecific competition between the invasive species –Anolis cristatellus– and the native–Anolis oculatus– in Dominica”), Kristin Winchell (“Urban Evolution Mid-Stride: Morphology and Performance of Urban Lizards”), and Yann Bourgeois (“Population genomics of green anole (Anolis carolinensis) reveals evolutionary forces shaping diversity in a reptile”).

Check back during the meeting as we rev up our blogging machine to cover all of this exciting new research! Also, make sure to follow along on Twitter by following Anole Annals (@AnoleAnnals) and the Evolution 2018 hashtag (#Evol2018)!

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