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Row, Kristopher Warren; 0000-0001-7921-763X (2023-08-11)
Humans are significantly altering the environment at an alarming pace, leading to a reduction in species diversity. This transformation has created modified habitats where some species struggle to survive, while a few ...
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Ahmed, Feroz; 0009-0002-9482-0933 (2023-08-14)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 08/01/2025** Acinetobacter baumannii is particularly problematic in hospital settings, where infections can occur in a range of tissues. This bacterium can endure extreme ...
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Murray, Alexander H (2023-08-10)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2024** ABSTRACT: The extent of human influences on the environment and biodiversity has led to naming our current time period the Anthropocene. A primary way in which ...
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Green, Michelle Lynn; 0000-0002-3795-3396
Globally, the human population continues to grow and move into urban areas causing a range of effects on local ecosystems. Elevated temperatures, altered hydrology, and higher concentrations of atmospheric pollutants in ...
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O'Connell, Kyle Anthony; 0000-0002-0464-9259
This dissertation seeks to understand the geological and climatological processes that have promoted diversification on continental and island systems. Using molecular genetic data generated using Sanger sequencing and ...
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Thammachoti, Panupong
Scincid lizards are one of the most diverse group of squamate reptiles,
found from tropical to temperate habitats worldwide. In the tropical rain forests of Java, Sumatra, and other parts of the Sunda Shelf biological ...
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Mruzek, Joseph Leonardo; 0000-0002-8067-3824 (2022-08-16)
Niche and dispersal processes are major ecological drivers of freshwater communities but their relative roles across latitudinal gradients, scales, and organismal groups are not well understood. Thus, we performed three ...
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Ruma, Fatema; 0000-0001-9021-8211 (2022-05-17)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/17/2024** ABSTRACT: Transposable elements or TEs, are selfish genetic elements that represent a major component of a eukaryotic genome. They are genetic units that can ...
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Currie, Kathleen; 0000-0003-4350-6338 (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 ...
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Howell, Kaitlyn J; 0000-0002-3214-1225 (2022-05-18)
Neurosensory structures (i.e., brain and eye size) vary extensively across taxa. The evolution of large neurosensory structures has long been an area of interest for scientists, but focus has largely been placed on ...
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Larson, Thornton Robert (2021-12-21)
The cryptic species complex, Limnonectes kuhlii, previously was considered to have a large range across Southeast Asia. Recent works have started to identify species within the complex using primarily genetic methodologies. ...
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Ghaffari, Soroush; 0000-0002-9744-6687 (2021-12-21)
Immunotherapy, the treatment of diseases via targeted immune system activation, has recently shown extraordinary success in clinical trials for multiple malignancies. In contrast to a routine therapeutic regimen for cancer, ...
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Jacobs, Justin Lawrence; 0000-0002-4657-438X (2021-12-20)
Elapidae is an extremely diverse family of venomous snake that have a nearly global distribution. To conquer such wide swaths of territory the initially fossorial snakes evolved many successful strategies pertaining to ...
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Mirsalehi, Seyedeh; 0000-0003-0900-9928 (2021-08-13)
Among several mechanisms, whole gene duplication is one of the major sources for the generation of new genes. A large portion of young genes that emerged through whole gene duplication in Drosophila are specifically expressed ...
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Rose, Meaghan Alyssa; 0009-0002-4214-155X (2023-05-19)
The formation of specialized root organs known as nodules is the most defining characteristic of leguminous plants due to the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen to bioavailable forms enabled by rhizobial endosymbionts. This ...
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Westfall, Aundrea Kristene (2023-05-11)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/11/2024** ABSTRACT: Snakes have captured evolutionary biologists’ attention for decades as extreme examples of adaptive evolution models for studying how novel and ...
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Nikolakis, Zachary Lamar; 0000-0002-7412-2508 (2023-05-10)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/10/2025** ABSTRACT: The field of population genomics has been mainly applied to questions centered around understanding molecular variation, impacts of evolutionary ...
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Freeman, Angela H; 0000-0002-7508-745X (2023-05-11)
Today, about a quarter of the world’s population are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and therefore, are at risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease. Tuberculosis, on average, takes about six months to ...
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Joglekar, Isha; 0000-0001-7930-5533 (2023-05-01)
Caspases, a class of cysteinyl proteases, are well known for their roles in apoptosis or programmed cell death. However, at lower levels of activation in the body, they also play other non-apoptotic roles in cell proliferation, ...
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Karadi Giridhar, Mithun Nag; 0000-0003-0520-5921 (2023-04-25)
Caspases are a class of cysteine proteases that play a crucial role in programmed cell death (apoptosis). We complete an evolutionary picture of folding of caspases in the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis. The folding models ...
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