It seems hard to believe almost a year has passed since the last Evolution meeting. Last year we brought you coverage of the anole talks and posters in Montpelier, France. This year, we’re coming to you live from Providence, Rhode Island from June 22nd – 25th! This year there are eight talks and eight posters scheduled *(searching the schedule for keywords “anole” and “Anolis“). There’s some pretty fascinating topics on the schedule – here’s what you have to look forward to each day:

Saturday: 

  • Habitat use, competition, and phylogenetic history shape the evolution of claw morphology in Lesser Antillean anoles (Yuan, Jung, Wake, Wang)
  • Estimating premating isolation among allopatric Anolis sagrei populations (Poster board #152) (D’Agostino, Geneva, Donihue, Losos)
  • Morphological assessment reveals candidate species of Anolis lizards to be truly cryptic (Poster board #175) (Meyers, de Mello, Glor)

Sunday:

  • Mountaintop endemics and climate change: is warming always a problem? (Farallo, Muñoz)
  • Sexual signal diversity and population genetic structure in Amazonian anole lizards (Prates, D’Angiolella, Melo-Sampaio, Rodrigues, de Quieroz, Bell)
  • The effects of volcanic activity on the phylogeographic history of the Plymouth Anole, Anolis lividus, on Montserrat (Poster board #72) (Jung, Yuan, Wang, Frederick)
  • Identification and assembly of an anole sex-chromosome: Rapid degeneration since autosomal fusion? (Poster board #160) (de Mello, Hime, Glor)
  • Effects of urbanization on toe pad shape and lamellae size in Anolis cristatellus (Poster board #174) (Howell, Hagey, Winchell)

Monday: 

  • Using archival DNA to elucidate anole phylogeny (Mayer, Gamble)
  • Comparative landscape genetics and epigenetics of two trunk-ground anoles (Wang, Wogan, Yuan, Mahler)
  • Ancient hybridization in the adaptive radiation of Anolis lizards on Puerto Rico (Wogan, Yuan, Wang)
  • Urban adaptation in anole lizards of the Greater Antilles (Poster board #7) (Winchell)
  • Cities in the Spotlight: Does Tolerance of Artificial Light at Night Promote Urban Invasions? (Poster board #97) (Thawley, Kolbe)
  • Sex-specific mortality and senescence in a wild population of brown anole lizards (Poster board #102) (Reedy, Kahrl, Seears, Wittman, Bhave, Cox, Schwartz)
  • Adaptive radiation in the multidimensional phenotype (Bodensteiner, Muñoz)
  • Patterns of morphological diversity in Draconura clade anole lizards (Huie, Prates, Bell, de Quieroz)

 

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 anole 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.