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Author:

Schroy, Pearl Lee

Title:

Factors that contribute to individual differences in responsiveness to cocaine and natural rewards in a reward comparison paradigm

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

cocaine
drug abuse
addiction
individual differences
saccharin
taste
reward comparison
corticosterone
inbred mouse strains
selective breeding
conditioned taste avoidance
conditioned taste aversion
anticipatory contrast
self-administration
sucrose
conditioning

File:

Download schroy.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Sue Grigson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Harold Bonneau, Committee Member
Matthew Mc Echron, Committee Member
Ralph Norgren, Committee Member
Richard Radcliffe, Committee Member

Author:

Rosier, Renee Louise

Title:

A behavioral ecology approach to the causes and consequences of sibling growth rate variation in the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

corticosterone
activity rates
boldness
feeding competition
reproductive tradeoff
body size
reproductive tradeoff
maturity

File:

Download Rosier_Jul16.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victoria Anne Braithwaite Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Special Member

Author:

Tennessen, Jennifer Beissinger

Title:

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of noise-induced acoustic habitat loss

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Noise
habitat loss
competition
stress
corticosterone
masking
North Atlantic right whale
Cuban treefrog
wood frog

File:

Download 1-Tennessen_Dissertation_4-24-15_SUBMITTED.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member
Michael John Sheriff, Committee Member
Susan Parks, Special Member

Author:

Mccormick, Gail L

Title:

Factors affecting the physiological consequences of stress in eastern fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus)

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

corticosterone
cross-generational stress
early life stress
Escherichia coli
evolutionary history
fire ant
hemagglutination

File:

Download McCormick_Dissertation_updates_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victoria Anne Braithwaite Read, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Danielle Paige

Title:

Effects of shale gas compressor noise on songbird reproduction and behavior

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

eastern bluebird
incubation
hatching success
noise
shale gas extraction
sound disturbance
reproductive success
Sialia sialis
Tachycineta bicolor
eastern bluebird
corticosterone
stress hormones
incubation
hatching success
noise
shale gas extraction
sound disturbance
reproductive sucess
sialia sialis
tachycineta bicolor
tree swallow

File:

Download Williams_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Margaret Brittingham-Brant, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julian D Avery, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Member

Author:

Ensminger, David

Title:

The causes and consequences of elevated glucocorticoids in wild animals

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

corticosterone
maternal stress
maternal programming
glucocorticoid
wild animal
Sceloporus undulatus
Cervus canadensis

File:

Download Ensminger_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Andrew Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
W. David Walter, Committee Member
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Tracy Langkilde, Outside Member

Author:

Evans, Jesse

Title:

A song of mice and fire: Effects of prescribed burns on tick host interactions involving Peromyscus leucopus and Ixodes scapularis

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Ixodes scapularis
Peromyscus leucopus
prescribed burn
Lyme disease
Borrelia burgdorferi
tickborne illness
tickborne pathogen
stress
corticosterone
blacklegged tick
white-footed mouse
tick-host interactions
fire
forest fire
landscape management
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Babesia microti

File:

Download 0715_Evans_ASongOfMiceAndFire_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Erika T. Machtinger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
John Tooker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jesse K Kreye, Committee Member
Andrea Darracq, Committee Member