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Author:: Nalim, F. Ameena
Title:: STUDIES IN MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS OF FUSARIUM SPECIES
Graduate Program:: Plant Pathology
Keywords:: internal transcribed spacer
lisianthus
stem rot
tuber rot
biological species concept
phylogenetics species concept
multiple gene genealogy
genealogical concordance
stem rot
Sri Lanka
Haematonectria
Nectria haematococca
Fusarium solani species complex
Eustoma grandiflorum
DNA sequencing
caladium
crown rot
beta-tubulin
nuclear large subunit
ribosomal RNA
translation elongation factor 1-alpha
File:: Download etdFAN.pdf
Committee Members:: David Michael Geiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gretchen Anna Kuldau, Committee Member
Daniel J Royse, Committee Member
Wakar Uddin, Committee Member
Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Member

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Author:: McNeal, Joel Robert
Title:: SYSTEMATICS AND PLASTID GENOME EVOLUTION IN THE PARASITIC PLANT GENUS CUSCUTA (DODDER)
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Cuscuta
dodder
Convolvulaceae
chloroplast
parasitic plants
photosynthesis
File:: Download McNeal_finthesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member

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Author:: Petko, Joshua Stanton
Title:: Ultra-Wideband and Interleaved Polyfractal Antenna Arrays
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: ultra-wideband
autopolyploidy
genetic algorithm
array
antenna
polyfractal
fractal
multi-beam
interleaved
File:: Download Petko-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Member
John Douglas Mitchell, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Nam, Jongmin
Title:: Evolution of two gene families controlling the fundamental processes of eukaryotic development: MADS-box gene family and homeobox gene family
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: MADS-box gene
Homeobox gene
Molecular evolution
comparative genomics
functional differentiation
File:: Download etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Masatoshi Nei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Member
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member

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Author:: Schulze, Mark
Title:: Ecology and behavior of nine timber species in Pará, Brazil: links between species life history and forest management and conservation
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: tropical forest dynamics
population ecology
tree life history
Brazil
Amazon
logging
tropical forest management
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Uhl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Member
Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Member
Jim C Finley, Committee Member

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Author:: Meisel, Richard P
Title:: GENE DUPLICATION AND CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENT IN DROSOPHILA GENOMES
Graduate Program:: Genetics
Keywords:: population genetics
genomics
chromosomal rearrangement
gene duplication
Drosophila
meiotic drive
sex chromosomes
File:: Download __meisel_thesis_2008_07_08_.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Hiroshi Akashi, Committee Member
Bruce A Mc Pheron, Committee Member
Wojciech Makalowski, Committee Member

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Author:: Hu, Wei
Title:: EVOLUTIONARY AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF A ZINC FINGER HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN FAMILY
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: floral ESTs
MIF
ZHD
zinc finger homeodomain proteins
gene family evolution
plant hormones
seedling development
shoot meristem
leaf serration
Arabidopsis
File:: Download Disseration-WeiHu-for-Submission.pdf
Committee Members:: Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Member
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Paula C Mc Steen, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhang, Yan
Title:: Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Plastid Genomes in Nonphotosynthetic Angiosperms and Cancer Cell Lines
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Plastid genome
parasitic plant
molecular evolution
cancer cell lines
File:: Download 1-Zhang.Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude W De Pamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhang, Yeting
Title:: Horizontal Gene Transfer Studies in Parasitic Plants of the Orobanchaceae
Graduate Program:: Genetics
Keywords:: Horizontal gene transfer
Parasitic plants
Orobanchaceae
File:: Download yetingDissertationOri.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude W De Pamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas Carlo, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member

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Author:: Yang, Zhenzhen
Title:: studying parasite evolution using comparative transcriptomic and phylogenomic analyses
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: parasitic plants
haustoria
transcriptome
phylogenomic
gene duplication
co-option
horizontal gene transfer
File:: Download ZhenzhenYang_dissertation_final_14April2016.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude W De Pamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Special Member

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