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Author:: Wallace, Andre George
Title:: MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF INVERSION BREAKPOINT REGIONS IN DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Chromosomal inversion
breakpoints
gene conversion
Drosophila pseudoobscura
Population Genetics
Recombination
File:: Download Wallace_Dissertation_11-22-2010-agw125.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Poss, Committee Member
Avery August, Committee Member

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Author:: Marcus, Adam I
Title:: Structural and Mechanochemical Microtubule-Associated Proteins in Plant Cell Function
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: meiosis
spindle
ATK1
KATA
mitosis
guard cell
kinesin
File:: Download eTd.pdf
Committee Members:: Richard Cyr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Simon Gilroy, Committee Member
Hong Ma, Committee Member

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Author:: Bliss, Barbara Joanne
Title:: INVESTIGATING EVOLUTION OF PLANT DEVELOPMENT IN BASAL ANGIOSPERMS
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: AAGP
FGP
horticulture
TCP
basal angiosperms
Aristolochia fimbriata
genome size
transformation
regeneration
File:: Download DissertationBJBliss.pdf
Committee Members:: Hong Ma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Siela Maximova, Committee Member
Paula Mc Steen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Feng, Baomin
Title:: TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND POST TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION IN ARABIDOPSIS REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: reproductive
Arabidopsis
anther
proteomics
transcriptional
File:: Download Thesis_Baomin_7-16-08.pdf
Committee Members:: Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Paula Mc Steen, Committee Member

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Author:: Hayes, Clair Nelson
Title:: Factors affecting the magnitude of inbreeding depression in male and female function in Cucurbita pepo spp. texana (Cucurbitaceae)
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: inbreeding
inbreeding depression
mating systems
Cucurbita
pollen
male function
File:: Download hayes_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Alan Winsor, Committee Member
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

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Author:: Duarte, Jill Marie
Title:: The Impact of Gene Duplication on Molecular Evolution in Flowering Plants
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: regulatory genes
basal angiosperms
phylogenomics
454
pyrosequencing
ESTs
angiosperms
single copy nuclear genes
gene duplication
expression divergence
File:: Download DuarteDissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member

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Author:: Nam, Jongmin
Title:: Evolution of two gene families controlling the fundamental processes of eukaryotic development: MADS-box gene family and homeobox gene family
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: MADS-box gene
Homeobox gene
Molecular evolution
comparative genomics
functional differentiation
File:: Download etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Masatoshi Nei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Member
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member

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Author:: Cui, Liying
Title:: Disparate modes of evolution in chloroplast and nuclear genomes
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: genome evolution
algae
flowering plants
gene expression
statistical method
File:: Download Thesis_Cui.06.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Hiroshi Akashi, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member

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Author:: Quan, Li
Title:: FUNCTIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES OF KINESIN AND MEIOTIC GENES IN PLANTS
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: kinesin
meiosis
spindle
gene duplication
homologous recombination
functional divergence
File:: Download Dissertation-Li_Quan.pdf
Committee Members:: Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Zhi Chun Lai, Committee Member

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Author:: Wall, P. Kerr
Title:: COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN PLANT COMPARATIVE GENOMICS
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Transcriptomics
Phylogenomics
Evolutionary Biology
Gene Family Evolution
Comparative Genomics
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Next Generation Sequencing
File:: Download P._Kerr_Wall_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member

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