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DEB Division Of Environmental Biology |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | November 21, 2013 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | November 21, 2013 |
| Award Number: | 1359537 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Samuel Scheiner
DEB Division Of Environmental Biology BIO Directorate for Biological Sciences |
| Start Date: | December 1, 2013 |
| End Date: | November 30, 2014 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $12,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $12,000.00 |
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321-A INGRAM HALL AUBURN AL US 36849-0001 (334)844-4438 |
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500 East 4th Street Austin TX US 78701-3720 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Animal Behavior |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.074 |
ABSTRACT
This award will support scientists to participate in a symposium at the 2014 meeting of the
Society of Comparative and Integrative Biology in Austin, Texas focused on unifying cellular and biochemical mechanisms with studies of mate choice and social interactions within the broader investigation of ornamental traits. It will bring together experts on the mechanisms that link condition, stress, and ornaments (and armaments). Over the past two decades, the hypothesis that ornamental traits signal the condition of animals has become a prominent paradigm in behavioral and evolutionary biology. This symposium wil integrate insights from physiological studies of stress response, particularly related to endocrine control, immune systems, and oxidative state, with evolutionary investigations of animal ornamentation.
By convening a symposium on a central topic in evolutionary and physiological ecology, information will be made available to the numerous graduate students, undergrads, postdocs, and faculty who attend SICB meetings. By filling half of the presentation slots with early career scientists including a majority of slots filled by women, the symposium will promote the development of a talented group of U.S. scientists. Through social events, students will have a chance to interact with prominent researchers.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.
This NSF award was to support a symposium “Stress, condition, and ornamentation” at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Austin, Texas in January, 2014. Ten faculty from three countries participated in the symposium including five women, two postdoc, and five early career faculty. Three hundred and twenty two scientists attended one or more of the talks, including an estimated two hundred graduate students and fifteen undergraduates. A post-meeting social gathering was held the following the symposium and 63 scientists attended the gathering and spent three hours discussing issues raised that the symposium. Each of the ten presenters at the symposium wrote an overview paper that was published in special volume of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology (vol 54, 2014). The volume included:
Pg. 539 Early-Developmental Stress, Repeatability, and Canalization in a Suite of Physiological and Behavioral Traits in Female Zebra Finches Vincent Careau, William A. Buttemer and Katherine L. Buchanan
Pg. 555 Developmental Stress, Song-Learning, and Cognition Susan Peters, William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki
Pg. 568 Developmental Stress, Condition, and Birdsong: A Case Study in Song Sparrows Kim L. Schmidt, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Shawn P. Kubli and Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton
Pg. 578 The Evolution of Honest Communication: Integrating Social and Physiological Costs of Ornamentation Elizabeth A. Tibbetts
Pg. 591. Condition-Dependent Ornaments, Life Histories, and the Evolving Architecture of Resource-Use Nathan I. Morehouse
Pg. 601 Testing the Hamilton–Zuk Hypothesis: Past, Present, and Future Susan L. Balenger and Marlene Zuk
Pg. 614 Heightened Condition-Dependent Growth of Sexually Selected Weapons in the Rhinoceros Beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) A. Johns, H. Gotoh, E. L. McCullough, D. J. Emlen and L. C. Lavine
Pg. 622 Physiological Correlates of Urbanization in a Desert Songbird Mathieu Giraudeau and Kevin J. McGraw
Pg. 633 Melanin-Based Color of Plumage: Role of Condition and of Feathers’ Microstructure Liliana D’Alba, Caroline Van Hemert, Karen A. Spencer, Britt J. Heidinger, Lisa Gill, Neil P. Evans, Pat Monaghan, Colleen M. Handel and Matthew D. Shawkey
Pg. 645 Cellular Respiration: The Nexus of Stress, Condition, and Ornamentation Geoffrey E. Hill
Last Modified: 01/29/2015
Modified by: Wendy Hood
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