Contributions to the Icebio2021

Arnar Pálsson, 22/12/2021

The lab had several contributions to the biannual Biology in Iceland conference. These were, in no particular order.

Talks

Experimental tests of unicoloniality in Hypoponera species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) living underground Reykjavík
Marco Mancini, Andreas Guðmundsson, Mariana Lucia Tamayo, James K. Wetterer, Arnar Pálsson

Diversity in the internal functional feeding elements of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, morphs in Lake Thingvallavatn, Iceland.
Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir, Finnur Ingimarsson, Sigurður Sveinn Snorrason, Sarah Elizabeth Steeleand Arnar Pálsson

Correspondence of morphological divergence across genotypes in response to diet follows evolutionary divergence of ecologically specialized morphs
Sarah E. Steele, Arnar Pálsson

DNA methylation patterns separate sympatric morphs of Arctic charr
Sébastien Matlosz, Benjamín Sigurgeirsson, Arnar Pálsson, Sigríður R. Franzdóttir, Zophonías O. Jónsson

New wine in old bottles: Geometric morphometric analysis revealed shape and allometric variation among sympatric Arctic charr morphs in Lake Thingvallavatn
Han Xiao, Arnar Pálsson, Sigurður S. Snorrason, Zophonías O. Jónsson

Transcriptional rewiring following compensatory selection of major mutations
Baldur Kristjánsson, Dagný Á. Rúnarsdóttir, Sudarshan Chari, Ian Dworkin, Arnar Pálsson

Dragging skeletons on wings: the effects of strong selection on transcriptional landscapes
Arnar Pálsson, Baldur Kristjánsson, Lea Jerman Plesec, Dagný Ásta Rúnarsdóttir

 

Posters

Food availability of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in rivers of Northeast Iceland Sum Yi Lai, Jón S. Ólafsson, Arnar Pálsson, James Rosindell, Guðni Guðbergsson, Ingi Rúnar Jónsson, Hlynur Bárðarson

Population genetics of stream populations of Arctic charr in North Iceland Sabrina Carli , Sabrina Carli, Irem Dogruoglu, Han Xiao, Marcos Lagunas, Dagny Ásta Rúnarsdóttir, Stefán Óli Steingrímsson, Sarah E. Steele, Arnar Pálsson

A region of ATG7 evolved in vertebrates and might account for a new function Valgerður Jakobína Hjaltalín, Margrét Helga Ögmundsdóttir, Arnar Pálsson