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  • From Microbes to Megafauna: The Ecology of Gut Microbiomes in Wild Herbivores

    Creator:
    Couch, Claire E.
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    All mammals host communities of commensal microbes in and on their bodies. Recent technological advances, combined with experimental studies in laboratory animals, are beginning to reveal the ubiquitous links between the gut microbiome and host disease, metabolism, immunity, and numerous other host functions. A new challenge of microbiome research is...
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    Claire E. Couch, Morgan A. Movius, Anna E. Jolles, M. Elena Gorman, Johanna D. Rigas, Brianna R

  • Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

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    Devan-Song, E. Anne
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    Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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    DISSERTATION OF E. Anne Devan-Song for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Integrative Biology

  • Trade-offs in a pathogen-rich world : genetic and maternal drivers of variation in costly resistance and immunity in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

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    Tavalire, Hannah F.
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    Disease acts as a powerful selective force in natural systems, driving the rapid evolution of resistance in the host. In the face of a myriad of pathogenic challenges in natural systems, hosts must balance the energetic needs of maintenance and reproduction with costly resistance mechanisms. In this dissertation I will...
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    ) Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Anna E. Jolles Disease

  • Individual Host to Population Scale Dynamics of Parasite Assemblages in African Buffalo of Kruger National Park, South Africa

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    Glidden, Caroline K.
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    The last century has experienced a marked increase in emerging infectious disease (EID, hereafter) – jeopardizing human, domestic animal, and wildlife health. EIDs are commonly associated with spillover from one host species into a novel host species, with many destructive diseases, for both livestock and wildlife, emerging at the wildlife-livestock...
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    : ___________________________________________________________ Anna E. Jolles The last century has experienced a marked increase in emerging infectious

  • Investigating variation in immunity and infection risk in wild ungulates

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    Dugovich, Brian S.
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    In the midst of the sixth mass extinction, understanding wildlife disease spillover is critical to maintaining protected wildlife areas. Studying ecoimmunology and wildlife disease ecology helps to understand immune and disease traits in an ecological context, which is invaluable in preventing pathogen spillover between livestock and wildlife. To investigate this...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Anna E. Jolles Brian P. Dolan In the midst of the sixth mass extinction