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• Causes and consequences of microbiome formation in Culex mosquitoes 

  Schwing, Cameron D. (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. ...

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• A snapshot of color: Exploring the ecological and genetic basis of color variation in the Neotropical tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans (chrysomelidae:cassidinae) 

  Strickland, Lynette Renae (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 ...

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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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