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Author:

Delphia, Casey Marie

Title:

Factors influencing the dynamics of plant-insect interactions in two solanaceous plants

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

inbreeding
plant volatiles
plant-insect interactions
Nicotiana tabacum
Solanum carolinense
genetic variation

File:

Download Delphia_Doctoral_Dissertation_041208.pdf

Committee Members:

Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark C Mescher, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member

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

Author:

Portman, Scott L

Title:

Variability in Host Plant Chemistry Effects Flight Muscle Development, Gene Expression, and Flight Capacity of Adult Lepidopteran Herbivores.

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

plant
insect
flight
metabolism
gene expression
dispersal
inbreeding
defense
endophyte

File:

Download Portman_Dissertation_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

James Harold Marden, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Special Member

Author:

Nihranz, Chad T

Title:

STRESSFUL MEMORIES: CONSEQUENCES OF HERBIVORY AND INBREEDING IN SOLANUM CAROLINENSE

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Solanum carolinense
Manduca sexta
herbivory
induced defenses
inbreeding
transgenerational induction

File:

Download Nihranz_-_Dissertation_in_Ecology.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew George Stephenson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
James Homer Tumlinson III, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Outside Member
Mark C. Mescher, Special Member

Author:

Mejia, Austin

Title:

Wolbachia densities in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Wolbachia
density
Aedes aegypti
mosquito
symbiont
Wolbachia
density
Aedes aegypti
mosquito
symbiont
artificial selection
inbreeding
biocontrol

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Austin.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Ann Mcgraw, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Laurence Rasgon, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Committee Member