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Genetic and phenotypic variation associated with the resistance gene SOD1 in Biomphalaria glabrata, an important intermediate host of Schistosomiasis

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Bonner, Kaitlin M.

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Schistosomiasis afflicts 200 million people and is responsible for 200,000 deaths per year. The infection is caused by a digenean trematode in the genus Schistosoma. The parasite must cycle through both a vertebrate (human) and invertebrate (snail) host to complete the life cycle. My dissertation focuses on the genetic mechanisms...

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_____________________________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kaitlin M. Bonner
Population genetics of ranid frogs : investigating effective population size and gene flow

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Phillipsen, Ivan C.

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This dissertation focuses on the evolutionary forces of genetic drift and gene flow in frog populations. The balance of these two forces and the force of mutation largely determine the amount of neutral genetic variation within populations as well as the degree of genetic similarity among populations. The stochastic evolutionary...

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about trivial nonsense. Kaitlin Bonner has been a great, supportive friend who brought a lot of
Adaptive diversity and divergence at frog antimicrobial peptide loci

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Tennessen, Jacob A.

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In this dissertation I study evolutionary patterns at genes encoding antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in frogs. AMPs are short, amphipathic, cationic, secreted proteins that kill bacteria and other pathogens through a non-catalytic mechanism that involves binding to and disrupting the microbial cell membrane. In many animal taxa, positive selection is much...

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especially like to thank Hitoshi Araki, Kaitlin Bonner, Angela Brandt, Mark Christie, Charles Criscione