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Abstract submission deadline – 25 Aug 2004
All participants are invited to present a poster on their research – please
submit your abstract by 25 Aug 2004. All abstracts will be published
in the symposium program and will be made available on the symposium
website.
Poster prizes
There will be two prizes of 250 US dollars awarded for the best
posters. Every participant at the meeting will have an opportunity
to vote for the poster that they judge to be the best, based on the
science presented in the best way in poster format.
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, BRIANA L., 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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Submission
Abstracts should be formatted as .DOC or .RTF documents and emailed
as an attachment to Holly Slater (newphytol@lancaster.ac.uk). In
the subject header of the email write 12th NPS Abstract – followed
by the name of the author presenting the work (e.g. 12th NPS Abstract – SlaterH).
Receipt of abstracts will be notified by email.
Poster guidelines
Poster display size is 78 cm wide by 119 cm high.
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Illustrations: Poplar genomics logo by Sam Day. Male catkins of Populus trichocarpa near Corvallis, OR, courtesy of Amy Brunner.
P. trichocarpa on the Willamette River,
OR, and P. trichocarpa female catkins by the Columbia River, OR, courtesy of
Stephen DiFazio.
Snowy poplars and rust infected poplar courtesy of Francis Martin. Functional genomics
of environmental adaptation in Populus is sponsored by the New
Phytologist Trust.
Last updated:
October 15, 2005
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