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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"environmental modulation"”.
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Environmental modulation of microbial communities
… interactions with each other as well as abiotic environmental conditions, making it difficult to surmise which forces drive community dynamics. In this thesis, I describe the "bottom-up" approach my colleagues and I use to build microbial communities in the laboratory. By using tractable …
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Genetic and Environmental Modulation of the Chickpea - Mesorhizobium Symbiosis
… related to both rhizobia and host plant, and environmental conditions are likely to influence plant growth and defence, and chickpea-Mesorhizobium symbiosis. The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the effects of genetic and environmental factors, and their interactions, on …
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Variable methylation of endogenous retroviruses: epigenetic inheritance, environmental modulation, and genetic modifiers
… epigenetic inheritance, susceptibility to environmental exposures, and strain-specific modulation. A recent screen conducted in the C57BL/6J mouse strain identified a subset of IAPs that show variable methylation levels across genetically identical individuals. This thesis characterises …
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Circadian and environmental modulation of arousal and reward systems of a diurnal brain
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Psychology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, 2010
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Towards bioengineered ecosystems: Three studies in invasion biology
… community invasibility were identified: environmental modulation, and community structure. The first factor, community structure, describes the set of species in an ecosystem and how they are trophically and otherwise related. While the majority of work in invasion biology has focused on …