Programme
Programme at a glance
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Reviews on involved disciplines |
Current research presentations |
Current research presentations |
Current research presentations |
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work group reports and overall discussion |
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Welcoming Reception, |
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Event Evening, 5:30 pm |
Farewell Party, 8 pm |
Information for speakers
Invited reviews are scheduled for a duration of 30 min. and 10 min. discussion.
Current research presentations are scheduled for a duration of 15 min. and 5 min. discussion.
Abstracts
Abstracts will be published in our in-house journal Zitteliana. The volume will be provided with the conference package and will be available open-access through OpenAccessLMU on the journal's website.
Scientific programme
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
Session: Exploring ruminant phylogenetics
Reviews on involved disciplines
Current taxonomy and diversity of crown ruminants above the species level
C. P. Groves
Genomics
J. F. Taylor, R. D. Schnabel, J. E. Decker
Developmental genetics
R. M. Roberts
Cytogenetics
L. Ianuzzi
Skeletodental morphology
C. M. Janis & J. M. Theodor
Soft tissue biology
M. Clauss
Behavioural biology
P. Deleporte, H. Cap
Session: Mining and recycling of ruminant phylogeny estimates
Reviews on outcome and application of ruminant phylogeny estimates
Rocks versus clocks or rocks and clocks: how can we solve the riddle of ruminant relationships?
L. Helbig, P. Price, O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds
Ruminant macroevolution: a phylogenetic approach based on extant faunas
M. Hernández Fernández, J. L. Cantalapiedra
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Session 3: Phylogenetic Patterns in Ruminantia
Phylogenetic patterns and diversity of embryonic skeletal ossification in Cetartiodactyla.
D. Koyabu
Dental eruption in ruminants and other mammals
R. Asher
Characterization of the gene family encoding for the pregnancy associated glycoproteins in ruminant ungulates
J. Green
Morphological aspects of the evolution of the ruminant placenta
K. Klisch, A. Mess
A comparison of vestigial zeugopodal and autopodal elements in ruminants and their potential use in establishing phylogenetic relationships
W.J. Silvia, C.H. Hamilton, W.F. Silvia
Histological insights into the deep homology of ruminant cranial appendages
B.L. Beatty, N. Solounias
Session 4: Phylogenetic Implications from Basal Hornless Ruminantia
Basicranial and ear morphology characters among basal ruminants
J.M. Theodor
Eocene-Oligocene selenodont artiodactyls from Asia and their bearing on the phylogeny and paleobiogeography of early ruminants
G. Métais
Reassessment of early European Ruminantia: implications for the diversity and evolution of the group
B. Mennecart
The fossil tragulids of the Siwalik Formations of Southern Asia
J.C. Barry
Phylogeny of the Tragulidae (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla, Ruminantia)
I.M. Sánchez, V. Quiralte, M. Ríos, J. Morales
New insights into tragulid phylogeny of Europe: Dorcatherium naui from the latest Middle Miocene of Austria
M. Aiglstorfer, M. Böhme, G.E. Rössner
Session 5: Phylogenetics in Cervidae
Systematics of the endemic Pleistocene deer of Mediterranean islands
A. Lister, M. Breda
Fossil taxa and molecular clock calibrations in Cervidae phylogeny: the challenge of the Middle-Late Miocene muntjac-like deer
B. Azanza, D. DeMiguel
A revision of cervid phylogeny using a total evidence approach
N.S. Heckeberg, G.E. Rössner, R.J. Asher, G. Wörheide
Separating phylogenetic signals from trophic convergence in cervid dentition – implications from tooth morphology and 3D surface texture analysis
E. Schulz, N.S. Heckeberg, G.E. Rössner
Late Miocene Cervavitus novorossiae (Cervidae, Artiodactyla) from Lantian, Shaanxi Province
L. Wang, Z. Zhang
Fossil remains of family Cervidae from the Siwaliks of Pakistan
A. Ghaffar
Deer from Plio-Pleistocene of Western Eurasia: matching fossil record and molecular phylogeny data
R. Croitor
Morphology of articular surfaces can solve a phylogenetic issue: one instead of two ancestors for Candiacervus (Mammalia: Cervoidea)
A.A. Van Der Geer, G. Lyras, J. De Vos, H. Drinia
Extinction-recolonization events in Crimean red deer populations during Late Pleistocene
K. Doan, E. Sandoval-Castellanos, L. Dalen, A. Stankovic
Geographic variation in body size of Japanese sika deer: Bergmann’s rule revisited
M. Kubo, S. Takatsuki
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Session 6: Phylogenetic Relationships of Basal Pecora, Palaeomerycidae, Giraffidae, and Moschidae
On the phylogenetic position of the hornless pecoran Amphimoschus – an example of arising challenges with the incorporation of fossils in extant combined frameworks
G.E. Rössner, E.V. Bärmann, N.S. Heckeberg, R.J. Asher, D. Erpenbeck, G. Wörheide
The petrosal bone and inner ear of Micromeryx (Moschidae, Miocene)
L. Costeur
New Late Miocene North American dromomerycine artiodactyl from the Amazon Basin: implications for interchanged dynamics
D.R. Prothero, K.E. Campbell, Jr., B.L. Beatty, C.D. Frailey
The interrelationships of the Giraffidae
N. Solounias, S. Hou
New giraffoid fossils from the later Early Miocene Lothidok Formation (West Turkana, Kenya): implications for early giraffoid diversity
A. Grossmann, N. Solounias
Mitilanotherium (Artiodactyla: Giraffidae) skull from the Lower Pleistocene locality of Sésklo (SE Thessaly, Greece)
A. Athanassiou
Session 7: Phylogenetics in Bovidae
The evolution of body size, horn shape and social behaviour in crown Antilopini - an ancestral character state analysis
E.V. Bärmann
Neogene Bovidae from China: a review
Z. Zhang, G. Chen
The anatomy and paleoecology of the boselaphine Miotragocerus pannoniae from the late Miocene Höwenegg locality (Hegau, Germany)
D. Wolf, R.L. Bernor, G.M. Semprebon
Horn development in living boselaphines and their fossil relatives; implications for phylogenetic reconstructions
D.S. Kostopoulos
The phylogenetic relationships of the Mio-Pliocene gazelles of Europe
M. Andrés Rodrigo, B. Azanza, J. Morales, E.V. Bärmann
Revision of the Ovibovini Gill 1872 (Bovidae, Caprinae) through a cladistic analysis based on morphological characters
F. Fack
Evolutionary patterns in insular fossil bovids
R. Rozzi, M.R. Palombo, M.V. Lomolino
Morphological evidence on the origin of Bison and the Cephalophini
J. van der Made
The evolutionary meaning of Raphicerus-like morphology in the dentitions and postcrania of Antidorcas bondi (Antilopini)
J.S. Brink, F.C. De Beer, J. Hoffman, L. Bam
The possible role of hybridization in adaptive radiations
Y. Moodley
Geographic differentiation of domestic ruminants
J.A. Lenstra
Friday, September 6th, 2013
Session 8: Related Aspects and Future
Taxonomic inflation in ruminants and its bearing on evolutionary biology and conservation
F. E. Zachos
Evolutionary relationships between environments and locomotion in extant ruminants
G.M. Alcalde, J.L. Cantalapiedra, M. Hernández Fernández, B. Azanza, M.T. Alberdi
Evolutionary rates for ruminants based on fossils and phylogenies
J.L. Cantalapiedra, M. Hernández Fernández, B. Azanza, J. Morales
Toward a phylogeny of ruminants: combining morphology, molecules, fossils, and living taxa
F. Bibi
Phylogenomics and adaptive genomics of ruminants
M. Hofreiter