Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Subject "Teiidae"
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Microbial Diversity and Immunogenetics of Whiptail Lizards (Aspidoscelis)
(2022-08-10)Whiptail lizards of the genus Aspidoscelis are a complex of both sexual and asexual species with distributions in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. The parthenogenetic lineages arose through hybridization ... -
Origins and Maintenance of Diversity in a Vertebrate Parthenogen
(2017-01-02)Clonal lineages are expected to experience a decline in fitness over time due to their inability to decouple deleterious and beneficial alleles. Individually, however, asexual populations pass twice as much of their DNA ...