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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:: Lazzaro, Brian Paul
Title:: A population and quantitative genetic analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster antibacterial immune response
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Drosophila melanogaster
population genetics
quantitative genetics
innate immunity
antibacterial
SNP
association study
pathogen
bacteria
File:: Download thesis.PDF
Committee Members:: Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Whittam, Committee Member
Andrew Clark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hiroshi Akashi, Committee Member
Diana Lynn Cox Foster, Committee Member

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Author:: Govenar, Breea
Title:: Factors affecting the epifaunal community associated with Riftia pachyptila at deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: hydrothermal vent
East Pacific Rise
tubeworm
Riftia pachyptila
marine benthic
community ecology
File:: Download govenar_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member

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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:: Firth, Cadhla Brooke
Title:: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Origin and Spread of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: nucleotide substitution rates
codivergence
phylogeography
DNA viruses
RNA viruses
emerging infectious diseases
File:: Download Firth.Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Benjamin Edward Holmes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Fraser Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bryan T Grenfell, Committee Member
Anton Nekrutenko, Committee Member
Edward C Holmes, 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:: Fang, Cheng
Title:: Structural and Functional Modulation of Inhibitory Synapses by GODZ-mediated Palmitoylation of GABAA Receptors
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: trafficking
synaptogenesis
inhibitory synapses
palmitoylation
GABAA receptors
DHHC-CRD proteins
File:: Download Cheng_Thesis_April17.pdf
Committee Members:: Bernhard Luscher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Cavener, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna Rose, Committee Member

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Author:: Pedersen, Christian
Title:: THE RESPONSE OF ARCTIC VEGETATION TO CLIMATE WARMING IN AN UNGULATE GRAZING SYSTEM
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: climate change
herbivory
phenology
ungulates
arctic
vegetation
grazing
reproduction
flowering
File:: Download Chr_Pedersen_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Committee Member

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