While current theories describing the insect-plant interaction
have emphasized the biochemical aspects of the relationship,
morphological components can also play a significant role in
determining which plants or tissues are susceptible to insect attack.
Xylem sap on which spittlebugs feed may lack many of the plant
compounds responsible for host...
A numerical solution to Hodgkin and Huxley's partial differential
system for the propagated action potential is presented. In
addition a three dimensional demonstration of the absolute refractory
period is given. Lastly, theoretical evidence supporting
Rushton's hypothesis is presented.
A primary goal of population genetics is to identify the role of
microevolutionary forces in producing observed patterns of molecular and phenotypic
variation. I conducted four studies in the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens, to
determine just how mutation, migration, genetic drift, and selection influenced,
genetic structure of mitochondrial DNA...
Epichloë typhina, a fungal endophyte of
cool season grasses, is heterothallic and an obligate
out-crosser. In areas of endemism, its spermatia are
moved between stromata of the two opposite mating
types through egg-laying activities of Botanophila flies.
In western Oregon, where the fungus was inadvertently
introduced into seed-production fields of...