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Author:

Shahid, Saima

Title:

Discovery of endogenous plant small RNAs and their role in trans-species gene regulation

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

miRNA
siRNA
plant small RNAs
Amborella
Physcomitrella
Triphysaria
Cuscuta
Parasitic plants
trans-species gene regulation

File:

Download Dissertation_Saima_Shahid_final_111717.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Axtell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Outside Member

Author:

Johnson, Nathan

Title:

Function and maintenance of trans-species small RNAs in the Cuscuta genus of parasitic plants

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Small RNAs
Parasitic plants
Small RNA alignment
Trans-species small RNAs
Cuscuta

File:

Download Dissertation_-_v3.2.9_-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Axtell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Cristina Rosa, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wafula, Eric

Title:

Computational methods for comparative genomics of non-model species: a case study in the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Computational biology
Evolutionary biology
Bioinformatics
Comparative genomics
Next-generation sequencing
de novo assembly
Genome annotation
Gene expression
Whole genome duplication
Gene duplication
Phylogenomics
Ancestral reconstruction
Transcriptomics
Orthogroups
Gene family evolution
Parasitic plants
Orobanchaceae
Striga

File:

Download Eric_wafula_dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Istvan Albert, Outside Member
Naomi S Altman, Outside Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Huiting

Title:

phylogenetic and functional studies on parasitism genes in Orobanchaceae and Convolulaceae

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Parasitic plants
cell wall
phylogenomics
transcriptome
molecular biology
host-induced-gene-silencing

File:

Download Huiting_Zhang_umi_agreement_papersub_submit.pdfDownload CertificateOfCompletion.pdfDownload Huiting_Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Axtell, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair