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Author:: Quillen, Ellen Elizabeth
Title:: Investigating Genes Related to the Evolution of Indigenous American Skin Pigmentation
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: skin color
human evolution
natural selection
Colombia
pigmentation
population genetics
File:: Download Ellen_Quillen_eeq101_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark Shriver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Shriver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
David Andrew Puts, Committee Member
David John Vandenbergh, Committee Member
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member

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Author:: Norton, Heather Lynne
Title:: Human Skin Pigmentation Variation: A Phenotypic, Genotypic, and Evolutionary Perspective
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: Island Melanesia
natural selection
skin pigmentation
File:: Download Norton_master.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark Shriver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
Jeffrey Arnold Kurland, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member

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Author:: Liberton, Denise Kristen
Title:: An Investigation into Genes Underlying Normal Variation in Facial Morphology in Admixed Populations
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: facial variation
genetic ancestry
natural selection
population genetics
File:: Download Liberton_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark Shriver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Committee Member
David Andrew Puts, Committee Member
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member
David John Vandenbergh, Committee Member

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Author:: Miura, Sayaka
Title:: Evolutionary changes of microRNA genes and the population dynamics of mutant genes in varying environments
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: microRNA
Hox gene
teleost fish
natural selection
File:: Download ThesisSMfinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Masatoshi Nei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Axtell, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member

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Author:: Onofrio, Lauren
Title:: Adaptation to climate in Juglans nigra: exploring how home climate shapes growth patterns of natural populations
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: black walnut
Juglans nigra
tree populations
local adaptation
climate
climate change
spatial climate variability
temporal climate variability
early growth patterns
growth rates
natural selection
genetic differentiation
provenance test
dendrochronology
phenotypic plasticity
common garden
File:: Download OnofrioFinalMSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Laura P Leites, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kim C Steiner, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member

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