- IDEALS Home
- →
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- →
- School of Integrative Biology
- →
- Dissertations and Theses - Biology
Dissertations and Theses - Biology
Browse by
Recent Additions
-
(2021-07-20)The guts of aquatic invertebrates host an array of microbes, yet how microbial communities assemble, and how particular microbial taxa influence their host, remains unresolved for many systems, particularly invertebrates. ...
application/pdf
PDF (1MB)
-
(2020-05-26)In our pursuit to understand how life’s diversity is shaped and maintained, color polymorphisms serve as a powerful tool to connect phenotypic variation with the ecological processes that influence them and the genomic ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)
-
(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 ...
application/pdf
PDF (8MB)
-
(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 ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)
-
(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 ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)