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- ALPINE AND SUBALPINE LANDSCAPE RESPONSE TO POST-GLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS: A COMPARISON OF NEW LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS
- Author
- Johnson, Bradley
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Geomorphology, Paleoclimatology
- Description
- Post-glacial interactions between climate, landscapes, and soils remain poorly understood, especially in alpine and sub-alpine areas. Here, I aim to increase understanding of the dynamic interactions between climate, landscape evolution, and soil ...
- Title
- ANCESTRAL COMPLEXITY AND LINEAGE SPECIFIC EXPANSIONS OF THE ANIMAL BZIP INTERACTOME
- Author
- Kane, Eric
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Bioinformatics, Evolutionary developmental biology
- Description
- Protein-protein interactions are central to the regulation and function of transcription factors in time- and cell-specific regulation of the genome. Increases in interactome complexity may serve as a mechanistic driver for evolutionary novelty. T...
- Title
- An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
- Author
- Ford, Colby
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Mathematics, Genetics
- Description
- "Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The migration of the Bantu people, which occurred around 3,000 years ago, was in...
- Title
- CELLULAR BIOMARKER RESPONSES OF THE ASIAN CLAM, CORBICULA FLUMINEA, NEAR A COAL ASH POND
- Author
- Thomason, Travis
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology
- Description
- The storage of coal combustion residuals (CCR) in aquatic surface impoundments has been a common practice across the United States for decades. Typically these aquatic surface impoundments are designed to allow the upper portion of the ash-basin w...
- Title
- Comparative analysis of Nitrosococcus genomes; isolation, physiological and genomic characterization of the new ammonia-oxidizing species Nitrosococcus wardiae, strain D1FHST; and molecular studies towards a better understanding of ammonia-dependent chemolithotrophy
- Author
- Wang, Lin
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Biology, Genetics
- Description
- Obligate aerobic chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidzing bacteria (AOB) derive energy and reductant needed for growth solely from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite thereby facilitating the process of nitritation. A strain of an ammonia-oxidizing ...
- Title
- EFFECT OF CADMIUM AND SEASONALITY ON CRITICAL TEMPERATURES OF AEROBIC METABOLISM IN EASTERN OYSTERS, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791
- Author
- Bagwe, Rita
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology
- Description
- Cadmium (Cd) and elevated temperatures are common stressors in estuarine and coastal environments affecting intertidal mollusks such as oysters. Cd and elevated temperature can raise the metabolic demands of oysters due to the increase cost of det...
- Title
- INVESTIGATING THE ECOLOGICAL, PATHOGENIC, AND DORMANT LIFESTYLES OF THE ESTUARINE BACTERIUM, VIBRIO VULNIFICUS
- Author
- Williams, Tiffany
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Microbiology, Bioinformatics
- Description
- Vibrio vulnificus is ubiquitous in estuarine and coastal waters worldwide and associates naturally with a variety of aquatic organisms. Notably, it is a highly invasive human pathogen capable of causing septicemia and multi-organ failure in person...
- Title
- Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Essential Oils on Human Health
- Author
- Uppal, Aneeta
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Botany
- Description
- The essential oil (EO) industry continues to grow as consumers search for more alternative and complementary therapies. When possible, EO users often turn to EOs for basic medical ailments instead of traditional medications/pharmaceuticals. With t...
- Title
- Phenotypic Plasticity and Genetic Variation in Two Diverse Groups of Mollusks
- Author
- Furr, Denise
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Natural history--Classification, Physiology, Zoology
- Description
- Mollusks are a highly diverse phylum with some of the most extremes of body forms from wormlike Aplacophora to tentacled cephalopods. The relationship between phenotype and phylogeny is studied here in two very different groups of mollusks, the bi...
- Title
- Polystyrene particle uptake and their potential to act as a trojan horse to oysters (Crassostrea virginica)
- Author
- Gaspar, Tamara
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Ecology, Cytology
- Description
- The global annual usage of plastics has increased dramatically over the last decade. Polystyrene is the fourth most common plastic material produced annually due to its many versatile applications. Consequently, there has been a coinciding increas...
- Title
- RECIPROCAL REGULATION OF MYC AND MICRORNA MIR-308 DURING DROSOPHILA EMBRYOGENESIS
- Author
- Daneshvar, Kaveh
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Biology, Genetics
- Description
- Myc is a conserved transcription factor with a role in the regulation of genes that are involved in growth and development. The abundance of Myc protein in the cells must be exquisitely controlled to avoid growth abnormalities caused by too much o...
- Title
- TISSUE SPECIFIC RESPONSES OF THE ESTUARINE BIVALVE SPECIES CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA AND GEUKENSIA DEMISSA TO HYPOXIA
- Author
- Khan, Bushra
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology
- Description
- Aquatic ecosystems are exposed to multiple stressors simultaneously. Many estuarine sites which show diurnal dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH fluctuations are also exposed to metals which can be toxic to marine organisms. Bivalve mollusks serve as goo...
- Title
- The ecology of C-genotype and E-genotype strains of the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus and their interactions with the American oyster Crassostrea virginica
- Author
- Froelich, Brett
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology, Microbiology
- Description
- Vibrio vulnificus is a pathogenic bacterium, routinely found in waters of estuarine environments as part of the normal microflora. This organism can be divided into two genotypes, a C-type associated with clinical isolation, and an E-type associat...
- Title
- The in-vivo Evolution of Burkholderia multivorans in a Cystic Fibrosis patient
- Author
- Harrison, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
- Description
- ABSTRACT Burkholderia multivorans is an opportunistic pathogen that poses a health risk to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The use of broad-range antibiotics to combat chronic bacterial lung infections has led to the evolution of antibiotic-re...
- Title
- The influence of wastewater treatment on community dynamics among antibiotic-resistant bacteria during treatment, stream release, and biosolids land application.
- Author
- Sorgen, Alicia
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Ecology
- Description
- Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are a key link between anthropogenic activity and the environment, facilitating the development and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance among populations of commensal environmental microorganisms and cli...