AAS Annual Meeting Abstract Preparation

Please read these instructions before preparing and submitting your abstract.

Abstract deadlines -- 7 June (SATURDAY) -- Abstracts received after 9 MAY not appear for up to ten days because Ken Prestwich will be away on a trip and then needs to moves his lab south during this period. Sorry, please be patient -- and IDEALLY, SUBMIT EARLY!
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and the preferred means of submission is via e-mail to Ken Prestwich (see below). If absolutely necessary, CD or 3.5" disks (or typed abstracts) may be mailed (see address below).Within a week of receipt (except see note in red immediately above) your abstract will be posted on the AAS website.

Please don't write asking if it the abstract has been received unless it has been longer than a week early in the game (again, please see note in red above) and you have not seen it posted.
Note that we do not send notification until web publication. Notification is via e-mail. All abstracts are arranged alphabetically by first author. When your abstract appears, if there are mistakes, please contact Ken Prestwich immediately. Please try to get it right the first time as changes are time consuming. I (Ken Prestwich) make enough mistakes on my own!

Document Format	Sample	Computer File Types
Filenames	Submission Instructions	Information on Student Paper Presentation Award

Format:

Submissions must be in English.

For the entire document, please use 12 point text, either Arial or Helvetica. The web administrator's eyes aren't so great!

TITLE: All boldface, Capitalize the first word and names, only (i.e. please do not capitalize each word or all of the title). Please make your title brief and descriptive.

AUTHORS & INSTITUTIONS: List each author by first name or initials and last name. Please provide the institution, department, and city, state/provence and country with each author unless all authors are from the same institution (see example below).

ABSTRACT: Please limit your abstract to 250 words.

Italicize scientific and gene names (Note: if using a plain text file, the editor will endeavor to figure this out -- please do not add characters to indicate italics as these generally take more effort to place (by you) and remove (by me) than they are worth -- you will have a chance to review the abstract on line). Please avoid sub- and super-scripts and do not underline. Accent marks certainly should be used where required but please keep in mind that they are hand-coded by the web administrator who also has a real job! (i.e., please avoid them unless absolutely needed) .
Note that standard Greek symbols are fine and will probably show up on most browsers but writing out a symbol such as "micron" instead of mm also works well.

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED INORMATION -- Beneath the abstract and within the same file, please indicate the following:

PRESENTER'S NAME
TALK (15 mins) or POSTER -- please indicate, we will assume talk if no preference is provided. Note: the posters must be able to fit into a 6 ft high by 42 inch wide area.
STUDENT COMPETITON -- it is only necessary to include this IF the paper is to be considered in the competition for the best student paper.(more information on the student competition is here)
IF YOU REQUIRE ANY SPECIAL AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT BEYOND A COMPUTER FOR POWERPOINT, A 35 MM SLIDE PROJECTOR (PLEASE BRING YOUR SLIDES IN A CAROUSEL, IF POSSIBLE), OVERHEAD PROJECTOR, OR VCR PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR REQUEST.

HERE IS A SAMPLE FILE, MODIFIED FROM A SUBMISSION TO THE NORMAN, OK MEETING (2004).

Evidence for repeated one-way introgression in Geolycosa wolf spiders in Florida

Samuel D. Marshall
J. H. Barrow Field Station, Environmental Studies Program
Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio USA

W. Randy Hoeh
Ting Wu
Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University
Kent, Ohio USA

Gail Stratton
Department of Biology, University of Mississippi
Oxford, Mississippi USA

Pat Miller
Department of Biology, Northwestern Mississippi Community College
Senatobia, Mississippi USA

Currently, 18 species of Geolycosa have been described based on a limited number of morphological characteristics. The state of Florida has nine Geolycosa sp., seven living in scrubs and sandhills across the state. We have studied the phylogeny of this genus to: 1. test for any biogeographic signal in the tree topologies and 2. to test for the monophyly of morphospecies. We used cytochrome c-oxidase subunit I (COI) in a cladistic analysis. Total DNAs were extracted, amplified, and sequenced from 150 individuals representing the species G. escambiensis , G. micanopy , G. patellonigra , G. x. xera , G. x. archboldi , G. hubbelli , G. ornatipes , G. wrighti , G. rafaelana, G. turricola, G. rogersi, G. fatifera, G. missiouriensis, G. riogrande, Lycosa carolinensis, Sosippus placidus, Pardosa milvina, and lycosid species South Africa and lycosid species Australia. Results to date suggest that: 1. North American Geolycosa is a monophyletic group, within in which the Floridian Geolycosa + Eastern US Geolycosa are a monophyletic assemblage. We also found evidence for repeated introgression events wherein G. micanopy females mated with males of G. hubbelli, G. pattellonigra, G. x. xera, and G. x. archboldi. This conclusion is based on a lack of congruence between the mtDNA trees and trees generated using morphology and nuclear markers. These past hybridization events apparently occurred in one area in southeast Florida.

PRESENTER: SAM MARSHALL
TALK
MOVIE PROJECTOR

SUPPORTED COMPUTER FILE TYPES -- Please use one of the following

Microsoft Word ("doc" file)
Rich-text format (".rtf")
Text ("txt") -- without line breaks except where they are inserted because the end of the title, paragraph, etc. has been reached. Note -- if you use text format please DO NOT add characters that indicate what should be italicized etc. Let me guess -- you will have a chance for corrections later.

Filenames -- please name your files using the following format:

FIRSTAUTHOR'SLASTNAME_AAS.extension -- for example, Rick Vetter would submit his always first abstract as: vetter_AAS.doc

If you make multiple submissions, please put a number after your name.

E-MAIL AND POSTAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please e-mail the file containing the abstract and other information to Ken Prestwich (alternative e-mail prestwic@ufl.edu) and put "AAS abstract" in the subject line.
Sorry to have to say this, but please show a little common courtesy in your e-mails-- you will not be communicating with a machine. Ken does not appreciate e-mails that only contain attachments.

Snail Mail Submission:
Please try to avoid this, but If you must mail your abstract, MAIL IT TO THE ADDRESS BELOW NO LATER THAN 3 JUNE. THE ABSTRACT MUST ARRIVE BY 7 JUNE TO BE CERTAIN TO BE INCLUDED.

It is best to contact Ken Prestwich first if you are going to use this option so he can be on the lookout for your abstract. Please send it to:

Dr. Ken Prestwich
Department of Biology
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610 USA
Phone (508) 793-2578

Press here to obtain a printable set of these instructions.