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Showing 1 to 20 of 725 for “"Evolutionary biology"”.
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Evolutionary biology of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense
… groupings. In this thesis, we investigated the evolutionary relationships among VCGs using multi-gene sequencing and MAT genotyping. A PCR-RFLP fingerprint discriminating the Foc lineages and a PCR primer that identified Foc ‘subtropical’ race 4 isolates, was developed. Nine microsatellite …
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Evolutionary biology of the Armillaria mellea species complex
DNA-DNA hybridization experiments were used to examine the genetic variation that has accumulated with the North American Biological Species (NABS) of Armillaria. Forty strains including nine of the ten NABS and A. tabescens were used in this study. The normalized percent hybridization values …
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The Evolutionary biology and taxonomic review of Zambian riverine haplochromine cichlids
This study aimed at reconstructing the phylogenetic relationships among Zambian riverine haplochromine cichlids and at reviewing their taxonomic status. The riverine haplochromines used were from the Zambezi River and the Luapula-Congo River systems. The target taxa were from two major groups: the …
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MODERN MORPHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES AND THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF SEPSIDAE (DIPTERA)
… by conducting a series of studies on the evolutionary biology and taxonomy of Sepsidae (Diptera), using various bioimaging techniques such as microcomputered-tomography, photomicrography and scanning electron-microscopy. First, I document how de-novo appendages evolved from male sternites …
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Systematics and evolutionary biology of the Weevils associated with cycads in Australia
… across various groups of organisms instead of coevolutionary diversification. The present thesis also provides first-hand observations in the wild and during laboratory rearing, new host plant records and developed a method for rearing mature larvae of cycad weevils in the laboratory. This thesis …
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Systematics and evolutionary biology of the Weevils associated with cycads in Australia
… across various groups of organisms instead of coevolutionary diversification. The present thesis also provides first-hand observations in the wild and during laboratory rearing, new host plant records and developed a method for rearing mature larvae of cycad weevils in the laboratory. This thesis …
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Inherit the Policy: A Sociocultural Approach to Understanding Evolutionary Biology Policy In South Carolina
<p>South Carolina biology Indicator 5.6 calls for students to 'Summarize ways that scientists use data from a variety of sources to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory' (South Carolina Department of Education, 2006). Levinson and Sutton (2001) offered a sociocultural …
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"Evo in the News": A Pedagogical Tool to Enhance Students' Perceptions of the Relevance of Evolutionary Biology
… evolution in a sample of undergraduate non-major biology students at a large, private research university. In addition, this study looked at the initial attitudes of the students and their knowledge of evolution before beginning a second semester introductory biology course. Both the initial …
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Aspects of the evolutionary biology of the proteaceae, with emphasis on the genus Leucadendron and its phylogeny
This thesis has been written up as a series of stand alone chapters, in the form that they have, or are to be, submitted for publication. Therefore there is a degree of repetition. Because the scale of my investigation has been fairly broad and crude, and because the genus is so large, I have …
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Evolution Acceptance, Religiosity, and Nature of Science in an Undergraduate Population
<p>Decades of research into the acceptance of evolutionary biology have revealed a number of factors that are related to an individual’s choice to accept or reject evolutionary biology. This work seeks to extend that work in the following key ways: (1) Use a longitudinal time frame, along with …
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Phylogenetic revision of the North American Asidini (Coleopters : Tenebrionidae)
… State University. Entomology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, 2010
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Interactions among invading ticks, wildlife, and zoonotic pathogens
… University. Fisheries and Wildlife - Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, 2010
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Circadian and environmental modulation of arousal and reward systems of a diurnal brain
… University. Department of Psychology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, 2010
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Decision-making in a changing environment : a look at the foraging behavior of honeybees and bumblebees as they respond to shifts in resource availability
… University. Department of Zoology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, 2010
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The vertical distribution of phytoplankton : observations, theory, experiments
… D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Plant Biology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, 2010
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Element & Origin
… other subjects: the natural world, myth, human evolutionary biology, the landscape of the imagination, the American West, and the Atlantic coast.
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Element & Origin
… other subjects: the natural world, myth, human evolutionary biology, the landscape of the imagination, the American West, and the Atlantic coast.
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Morphometric approaches to systematics and microevolution: Applications from paleozoic bryozoa
… is a significant paleontologic contribution to evolutionary biology. Paleomicroevolutionary studies require accurate stratigraphic resolution over a large geographic area, through changing environments, over a sustained period of time, with an abundant, complex, eurytopic fossil group. The …
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The Nurture of Nature: Biology, Psychology and Culture
… consequences taking development seriously in evolutionary considerations will have for how we understand the evolution of psychology and culture. I first explicate the relationship between development and evolution that informs a number of approaches to evolution, including neo-Darwinian …
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