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• Untangling the coevolutionary history between doves and their parasitic lice 

  Sweet, Andrew Donald (2018-04-09)

  In host-parasite systems, any given host species can be associated with multiple types of parasites, each of which can have a unique ecological relationship with the host. However, it remains unclear how these ecological ...

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• Reinforcement and cascade reinforcement in the lucania system: the effects of experimental design, sex, and heterospecific pairings on mate preference 

  St John, Michelle Emilie (2017-07-19)

  Reinforcement and cascade reinforcement are potentially very potent evolutionary forces (Butlin 1987; Servedio and Noor 2003; Fuller 2016; Pfennig 2016). Their pervasiveness in nature, however, can only be determined through ...

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• The ecology of color: how color affects visual behaviors in aquatic habitats in a sexually dimorphic species (Lucania goodei) and their major predator (Micropterus salmoides) 

  Mitchem, Lisa D (2017-07-17)

  Aquatic ecosystems consist of a complex array of fish coloration and patterning that are mediated by a balance of predation and sexual selection. Optimal coloration presumably increases conspicuousness to conspecific mates ...

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• Ultrasensitive quantification of circulating disease biomarkers through enzymatic labeling and single molecule counting 

  Smith, Lucas David (2017-05-26)

  The focus of my graduate research is on the development of simplified and ultrasensitive methods for quantifying low abundance biomarkers with the ultimate goal of developing robust tools for advancing disease diagnosis. ...

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• Behavioral freeze avoidance in an Antarctic fish 

  Grobelny, Mateusz (2017-04-28)

  Freeze avoidance is vital for the survival of Antarctic notothenioid fishes inhabiting the ice-laden waters of the high-latitude Southern Ocean. Most notothenioids avoid freezing primarily by the action of their blood-borne ...

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