Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Biology
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Lifetime Stability, Maternal Effects, and Fitness Outcomes of Socio-Ecological Strategies in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins
(Georgetown University, 2021)Individuals within a population differ in behavior along both social and ecological axes. These differences are proposed to be governed by niche theory at the individual level, but empirical evidence is sparse, especially ... -
Assessing the Function of SOX21 in Xenopus laevis Neurogenesis: Exploring Homeolog Sub-Functionalization
(Georgetown University, 2021)Neurogenesis is a tightly controlled developmental process through which neural progenitor cells progress to committed neurons. While the SoxB1 transcription factors are well characterized to have functions in the induction ... -
No Longer Forgotten: Pupation as a Critical Link in the Lepidopteran Life Cycle
(Georgetown University, 2021)Holometabolous insects, those that undergo complete metamorphosis, owe their tremendous evolutionary success in large part to an efficient division of labor between a larval phase that focuses on feeding, and an adult phase ... -
The Interplay between Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Dynamics
(Georgetown University, 2021)Human behavior and infectious disease are related in a dynamic feedback loop. This integral and ubiquitous relationship is often ignored in epidemiological modeling, leading to findings that overlook a crucial element in ... -
Pseudophosphatases Enhance Siw14, an Inositol Pyrophosphate Phosphatase that Negatively Regulates the Environmental Stress Response through Msn2
(Georgetown University, 2021)Inositol pyrophosphates are high energy signaling molecules found across eukaryotes that are important for diverse cellular processes like phosphate homeostasis, the immune response, fungal pathogenicity, endocytosis, ...
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