ESEB 2011 – Call for abstracts VIVIPARITY, PLACENTATION AND CONFLICT We invite submission for oral and poster presentations to this ESEB 2011 symposium – European Society for Evolutionary Biology meeting, 20-25 August 2011, Tuebingern (Germany).
*** Deadline for abstract submission: 28th of February *** Abstracts – 1700 characters max (about 200-250 words) - should only submitted at: http://www.eseb2011.de/call_for_abstracts.htm Viviparity evolved multiple times in the animal kingdom. Despite its fundamental role in viviparity, the placenta exhibits striking and still unexplained morphological variation. We welcome contributions on how and why viviparity and placental diversity evolved and we are particularly interested in contributions that examine the evolution of molecular, morphological and physiological aspects of placental diversity and viviparity, the role of sexual conflict and environmental pressures in driving the evolution of these traits, and the implications of viviparity and placentation for macroevolutionary patterns. Invited speakers: Prof. Derek Wildman (Wayne State University) Website: http://homopan.wayne.edu/index.html Prof. David Reznick (University of California, Riverside) Website: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~gupy/Reznick/ Organizers: Dr. Isabella Capellini (Queen’s University of Belfast, UK, and Durham University, UK) Email: [email protected] Prof. Robert Barton (Durham University, UK). Email: [email protected] --- -- Isabella Capellini, PhD **** NOTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS FROM JANUARY 2011 **** School of Biological Sciences Queen's University of Belfast 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT7 9BL (U.K.) Present address Department of Anthropology Durham University Dawson Building, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE (U. K.) http://www.dur.ac.uk/isabella.capellini/ http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/profile/?id=2366 Evolutionary Architecture of Reproduction website http://www.dur.ac.uk/reproductionproject/ Phylogeny of Sleep Database http://www.bu.edu/phylogeny/
