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The number of posters are limited
and so will be restricted to one poster
per presenting author and be subject
to a selection procedure based on
submitted abstracts. Preference will
be given to new unpublished, or recently
published, work. Please send your
abstracts according to the guidelines
below by 4 September 2009. You will
receive an email by 11 September 2009
informing you whether or not your
abstract has been accepted as a poster.
Note there will be prizes awarded
for the best posters.
Poster abstracts will be published
in the symposium program and abstract
book and will be made available on
the symposium website.
Poster abstract guidelines
Format
- Abstracts should be no more than
200 words and should fill a space
no larger than half an A4 page
- Single spacing, Arial font, 10
point
- First line: title in bold lower
case
- Second line: the author(s)' name(s)
in upper case. Underline the name
of the author presenting the work
- Third line: full address of the
institution(s) where the work was
carried out, in italic lower case
- Leave a single line space after
the address
- Main text: provide concise details
of the background and objective(s)
of the investigation, methods used,
results and conclusions
Example abstract:
The origin of Helianthus
deserticola: survival and
selection in a desert habitat
GROSS, BL, KANE, NOLAN
C., LEXER, CHRISTIAN & RIESEBERG,
LOREN H.
Department of Biology, Indiana
University, Jordan Hall 142,
1001 East Third Street, Bloomington,
IN 47405, USA
The diploid hybrid species
Helianthus deserticola
inhabits an extreme environment
relative to its parental species
H. annuus and H.
petiolaris. Adaptation
to the arid desert floor may
have occurred via the acquisition
of novel phenotypes resulting
from transgressive segregation
in early hybrids. We have explored
this possibility through a field
experiment designed to test
the direction and intensity
of phenotypic selection, using
crosses between the parental
species as proxies for the ancestral
genotype of the ancient hybrid
species. Helianthus deserticola,
H. annuus, H. petiolaris,
and early-generation hybrids
between H. annuus and H.
petiolaris were all grown
in native H. deserticola
habitat, and a selection analysis
revealed that several traits
were subject to strong selective
pressures. Several of the traits
under selection were also extreme
or transgressive in H. deserticola,
and the range of variation present
in BC2 hybrids suggests that
many aspects of the H. deserticola
phenotype are easily recreated.
Thus, transgressive segregation
may have contributed to the
adaptation of H. deserticola
to the desert habitat.
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Poster guidelines
Posters should be no larger than
A0 size, portrait (118 cm high x 84
cm wide)
Poster abstracts should be formatted
as .DOC, .DOCX or .RTF files and submitted
using the online submission procedure.
Decisions on abstracts will be sent
by email by 11 September 2009 informing
you whether or not your abstract has
been accepted as a poster.
Please fill in the below details and
proceed to upload your poster abstract.
If you are applying for a grant please
do not submit your poster abstract
here but include this with your grant
application go to Grants
for more information.
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