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• Overcompensation of Ipomopsis aggregata following ungulate herbivory: getting to the root of it 

  Allsup, Cassandra (2015-01-21)

  The idea that some plants benefit from being eaten is counterintuitive, yet there is now considerable evidence demonstrating enhanced fitness following herbivory, i.e., plants overcompensate. The mechanistic underpinnings ...

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• Molecular mechanisms underlying avian metabolic variation: a genomic approach 

  Stager, Maria (2014-09-16)

  Physiological adaptive acclimatization allows an organism to balance the competing demands of its life cycle and environment. This thesis seeks to further our understanding of the processes underlying physiological acclimation ...

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• The role of the Dgk1 and Pah1 in lipid interconversion on saccharomyces cerevisiae vacuole physiology, homeostasis, protein sorting and fusion 

  Stoy, Colin (2014-09-16)

  A variety of factors are needed for the homotypic fusion of the yeast vacuole, including a number of proteins and regulatory lipids. The deletion of the phosphatidic acid (PA) phosphatase gene Pah1, which converts PA in ...

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• Evolution and ecology of body size in North American terrestrial mammals during the Paleocene and Eocene transition 

  Birlenbach, David (2014-09-16)

  One of the largest turnovers in mammalian history occurred during the transition from the Paleocene to the Eocene. Paleocene communities in North America were comprised of small endemic archaic mammals. In the late Paleocene ...

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• Effects of diversity on community assembly dynamics in newly formed pond communities 

  Holmes-Singh, Christopher (2014-05-30)

  Theory suggests that the initial level of genetic or species diversity in a new habitat will influence community assembly dynamics. Previous studies have shown that species diverse communities can buffer against invasion ...

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