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Author:

Quan, Li

Title:

FUNCTIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES OF KINESIN AND MEIOTIC GENES IN PLANTS

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

kinesin
meiosis
spindle
gene duplication
homologous recombination
functional divergence

File:

Download Dissertation-Li_Quan.pdf

Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Zhi Chun Lai, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Xiaofan

Title:

UNDERSTANDING EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY USING MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS: FROM GENES TO GENOMES

Graduate Program:

Cell and Developmental Biology

Keywords:

genome duplication
gene duplication
histone demethylase
epigenetics
evolution
tree of life
single-copy gene

File:

Download ZhouX_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Zhi Chun Lai, Committee Member
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Xianting

Title:

The role of barren inflorescence genes, barren inflorescence2 (bif2), barren stalk1 (ba1)and suppressor of sessile spikelet1 (sos1), in maize inflorescence development

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

barren inflorescence
maize
inflorescence development

File:

Download Xianting_Wu_Ph.D_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Paula Mc Steen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Zhi Chun Lai, Committee Member
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Zhenguo

Title:

THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF HIGHLY CONSERVED GENE FAMILIES CONCERNED WITH BASIC CELLULAR AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

evolution
origin
DNA repair
development
RAD51
recA
MutS
MutL
Hox

File:

Download LinZ_PhD_Thesis_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Masatoshi Nei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Zhi Chun Lai, Committee Member