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Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

EMPIRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO LIFE-HISTORY TRADE-OFFS: THE SIZE AND NUMBER OF OFFSPRING IN BROODS OF A PARASITOID WASP, Yoriko Saeki

THE ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY EFFECTS OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS ON SEXUALLY SELECTED TRAITS IN MALE GUPPIES, Kausalya Shenoy

ECOLOGY OF MATING PATTERNS AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN DICKCISSELS BREEDING IN MANAGED PRAIRIE, Bridget Frances Sousa

THE EFFECTS OF SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF POPULATIONS ON THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SEXES IN A CLONAL ORGANISM, Christopher Stieha

THE BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF BRUCELLOSIS IN YELLOWSTONE BISON, John Joseph Treanor

WHEN MOLECULES AND MORPHOLOGY CLASH: REVISITING SPECIES TREE RECONSTRUCTION OF AMBYSTOMATID SALAMANDERS USING MULTIPLE NUCLEAR LOCI, Joshua Steven Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

THE ROLE OF CO-INFECTION IN THE SPREAD OF HIV IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Diego Fernando Cuadros

CIRCADIAN AND HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION OF SLEEP IN CAST/EiJ AND C57BL/6J MICE, Peng Jiang

COOPERATIVE AND ANTAGONISTIC ROLES FOR HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEINS IN TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF THE DROSOPHILA SEX DETERMINATION MASTERSWITCH GENE, Hui Li

THE ECOLOGY OF DISTURBANCES AND GLOBAL CHANGE IN THE MONTANE GRASSLANDS OF THE NILGIRIS, SOUTH INDIA, Madhusudan P. Srinivasan

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATORS lin-11 AND let-711, IN MODULATING THE RATE OF AGING AND LIFESPAN, IN C. elegans., Tseten Yeshi Jamling

Dissertations from 2010 2010

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON BEHAVIOR AND PHYSIOLOGY IN CRAYFISH, Sonya M. Bierbower

SHELTER AVAILABILITY, OCCUPANCY, AND RESIDENCY IN SIZE-ASYMMETRIC CONTESTS BETWEEN RUSTY CRAYFISH, ORCONECTES RUSTICUS, Nathan M. Klar

ANALYSIS OF THE CRMP GENE IN DROSOPHILA: DETERMINING THE REGULATORY ROLE OF CRMP IN SIGNALING AND BEHAVIOR, Deanna Hardt Morris

Theses from 2009 2009

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LARVAL GENE EXPRESSION BETWEEN A PAEDOMORPHIC AND METAMORPHIC SPECIES OF AMBYSTOMATID SALAMANDER, Meredith A. Boley

FURTHERING PHARMACOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE GLUTAMATERGIC RECEPTORS AT THE DROSOPHILA NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION, Junyoung Lee

PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF SPINAL CORD AND LIMB REGENERATION IN A SALAMANDER, THE MEXICAN AXOLOTL, James Robert Monaghan

TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES DURING THYROXINE-INDUCED METAMORPHOSIS OF THE MEXICAN AXOLOTL AND AXOLOTL-TIGER SALAMANDER HYBRIDS, Robert Bryce Page

THE DISTRIBUTION OF UNPAIRED DURING DROSOPHILA OOGENESIS, Travis Sexton

Theses from 2008 2008

HYPOTHALAMIC MEDIATION OF ACUTE INCREASES IN ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND RENAL SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY DURING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE LAMINA TEMRINALIS, Samuel Paterson Carmichael II

THE INFLUENCE OF Ca2+ REGULATION IN SYNAPTIC FACILITATION OF MOTOR NERVE TERMINALS IN CRAYFISH AND DROSOPHILA AS WELL AS IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATION OF LARVAL DROSOPHILA HEART, Mohati Desai-Shah

TOWARDS CLONING THE CLK-3 GENE IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS, Suchita Umesh Desai

CLONING, CHARACTERIZATION AND SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF THE N (NUCLEOCAPSID) AND P (PHOSPHOPROTEIN) PROTEIN OF THE SYDV (POTATO YELLOW DWARF VIRUS SANGUINOLENTA STRAIN), Debasish Ghosh

COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY OF SEED DORMANCY-BREAK AND GERMINATION IN CONVOLVULACEAE (ASTERIDS, SOLANALES), Kariyawasam Marthinna Gamage Gehan Jayasuriya

FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UPD3 IN DROSOPHILA DEVELOPMENT, Liqun Wang