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Recent Submissions
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Pruett, Kasey Noelle; 0009-0004-3871-847X (2023-08-14)
The Chiloquin Dam was removed from the Sprague River in 2008 to restore the natural hydrology of Upper Klamath Lake (UKL), allow fish access to historical spawning grounds, and alleviate the effects of long-term eutrophication. ...
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Bradley, Kelly Allison; 0000-0001-8468-5534 (2022-06-03)
In an effort to combat the current extinction crisis, conservation biologists have developed a diverse set of tools, including conservation physiology. This scientific discipline applies physiological concepts and tools ...
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Dhamala, Santosh (2022-05-17)
The R2 Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements (LINEs) is a widely distributed site specific non-LTR retrotransposons that integrates exclusively into host genome’s 28s rRNA genes and replicate by a process called Target ...
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Lee, Alicia (2021-08-10)
Clean and safe drinking water is a human right. Global, federal, and state agencies that monitor the source and quality of drinking water are limited in power and oversight. Historically, human groups have replaced wetland ...
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Greene, Harry Walter (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 1973-05-01)
This thesis considers the food habits and feeding behavior of New
World venomous coral snakes, with emphasis on Micrurus fulvius a species
that is found in the southeastern United States and northern Mexico. Literature
records ...
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Long, Nicholas A.; 0000-0002-4559-5816 (2016-09-16)
The formation of new species results from reproductive isolation, or the barrier to successful mating between organisms of divergent populations. The degree of reproductive isolation can be measured by the reduction in ...
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Boyles, Amanda M. (Biology, 2015)
The evolutionary consequence of heated effluent on the Western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, was studied at Lake Fairfield, in Freestone County, Texas. The Lake Fairfield reservoir receives heated effluent from Luminant’s ...
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Holmes, Julian; 0000-0002-5148-3140 (2015-12-08)
Global temperature increases are predicted to quicken in pace this century, and with them so will the likely impact on natural populations. The extent to which organisms will be able to keep pace with and adapt to these ...
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Leonard-Whittington, Deirdre (Biology, 2014-12)
In natural environments, organisms face multiple stressors that threaten their persistence. Aquatic organisms respond to a change in environmental conditions by adaptively modifying the expression of traits (i.e., ...
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Beach-Letendre, Joshuah Myron (Biology, 2014-09-17)
Coral reefs provide numerous ecological and economic functions and are critical to biodiversity in marine environments. Critical to coral reef health and diversity is the microbial consortium within the coral host along ...
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Jagdish, Athena (Biology, 2014-03-10)
Non-LTR retrotransposons encode a conserved cysteine histidine motif of undetermined function. The spacing of the cysteines and histidine residues in the motif is CX₃CX₇HX4C. The site specific non-LTR retrotransposon R2Bm ...
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Thaweethawakorn, Anchana (Biology, 2013-10-23)
Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a nitrogen-fixing bacterium that can establish a symbiotic relationship with the soybean plant. To be a successful symbiont, B. japonicum must have an effective mechanism to deal with plant ...
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Soulsby, Karen Sloane (Biology, 2013-07-22)
Wild elephants spend approximately 90% of their day actively foraging. Reduced activity in captive elephants may increase the risk of obesity and the formation of stereotypical behaviors. In order to evaluate and enhance ...
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Walton, Jayme L. (Biology, 2012-07-25)
Succession describes the process of community change over time after a disturbance. Understanding these processes allows ecological restoration projects to take advantage of natural community trajectories. Reclamation ...
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Rich, Matthew E. (Biology, 2012-07-25)
Recent global warming, which has been severe in the Arctic, has caused advancement in the timing of snowmelt and expansion of shrubs into open tundra. Such an altered climate may directly and indirectly (via effects on ...
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Taw, May Nyan (Biology, 2012-07-25)
The GntR family is one of the most widely distributed and prolific groups of the helix-turn-helix (HTH) transcription factors. In particular, microorganisms that live in complex, fast-changing environments such as soil ...
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Foster, Briony L.L. (Biology, 2012-04-11)
Nanoflagellates provide an important link in aquatic food webs by consuming bacterial biomass and subsequently providing nutrients to higher trophic levels by becoming prey themselves and regenerating nutrients consumed ...
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Shivram, Haridha (Biology, 2012-04-11)
Restriction-like endonuclease (RLE) bearing non-LTR retrotransposons are site-specificelements that integrate into the genome through target primed reverse transcription (TPRT). RLE-bearing elements have been used as a ...
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Ingrasci, Matthew John (Biology, 2011-10-11)
Although previous studies have addressed issues relating to the systematics and taxonomy in the snake genus Ninia, the evolutionary history of the group remains largely unknown. Preliminary morphological studies have been ...
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Thompson, Blaine K. (Biology, 2011-07-14)
Non-LTR Retrotransposons (NLRs) are selfish mobile genetic elements which parasitize the genomes of many organisms including humans. These elements transpose through an RNA intermediate and integrate directly into their ...
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