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Creator:: Brawner, Michael D.
Abstract:: Anthropogenic climate change is threatening biodiversity as I currently understand it. There is now a large body of work highlighting species responses, globally, to this threat. Importantly, responses at the species level emerge from responses at lower levels of biological organization (individuals and populations) across a species’ geographic range. For...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Rebecca C. Terry

Creator:: Hanson, Chloe C.
Abstract:: Evolve & Resequence (E&R) experiments subject laboratory populations to environments controlled by investigators, who then document the phenotypic and genomic changes that take place over many generations. These experiments provide powerful tools for testing of a wide variety of evolutionary questions, especially questions about the nature of adaptive traits. While...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Chloe C. Hanson for the degree

Creator:: Glidden, Caroline K.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ......................................................................167 APPENDIX B – CHAPTER 3 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES AND FIGURES ..........168 APPENDIX C – CHAPTER 4

Creator:: Wasala, Wasala Mudiyanselage Sulochana K.
Abstract:: Plant-parasitic nematodes cause more than US $100 billion in annual agriculture loss worldwide. Thorough knowledge of their genetic diversity, and interactions with endosymbionts and environment have the potential to provide valuable insights into the basic biology of these animals, and assist future efforts aimed at management of these plant parasites....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ………………………..….180 Appendix C: Supplementary material for Chapter 4…………………..……….185

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