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Full-Text Articles in Biology
Relating Occupancy Patterns To Multi-Life-History Scales For Pond-Breeding Anurans In Eastern Virginia, Patrick A. Hardner
Relating Occupancy Patterns To Multi-Life-History Scales For Pond-Breeding Anurans In Eastern Virginia, Patrick A. Hardner
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Amphibians are experiencing population declines worldwide due to a multitude of factors, including habitat loss. Therefore, assessments of breeding habitat occupancy are important to determine which environmental characteristics are crucial for conservation of amphibians. While most research assesses habitat conditions at the breeding site (i.e., pond or wetland), for many species this misrepresents annual habitat use as many migrate to terrestrial habitats once breeding is completed. To provide a comprehensive assessment of annual habitat use, we evaluated how anuran (i.e., frog and toad) breeding site occupancy related to three life-history scales: breeding, migration and dispersal. Basically, the three scales define …
Climate Change And Conservation Of Milkweed: Evidence Of Extensive Admixture Between Common Milkweed And Poke Milkweed, Elizabeth Davies
Climate Change And Conservation Of Milkweed: Evidence Of Extensive Admixture Between Common Milkweed And Poke Milkweed, Elizabeth Davies
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Global climate change can drive many changes in species interactions. One primary way it affects species is by changing climates, causing species to expand their ranges and allowing them to interact with species from whom they were previously isolated. In plants, new species interactions can result in hybridization – the creation of hybrid offspring between two separate species. This hybridization can increase gene flow between the species and lead to introgression, the transfer of genetic material from one species to another through hybrid backcrossing with the parent species. My thesis investigates hybridization in the model system Asclepias (milkweed) by analyzing …
The Characterization Of The Type I Dna Methyltransferase Hsdm1 (Hp0463) In Helicobacter Pylori, Elise Zimmerman
The Characterization Of The Type I Dna Methyltransferase Hsdm1 (Hp0463) In Helicobacter Pylori, Elise Zimmerman
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative spiral-shaped bacterium that colonizes the gastric epithelium and is the leading cause of gastric adenocarcinoma globally. For both H. pylori and many other bacterial species, there is an increasing body of evidence that methylation by restriction-modification systems regulates gene expression in addition to its traditional role in genome protection. The study aimed to further elucidate the mechanisms through which H. pylori achieves methylome plasticity. We demonstrated that the Type I DNA methyltransferase hsdM1 (HP0463) is regulated by the main acid sensing mechanism of H. pylori, the two-component system (TCS) ArsRS. ArsRS induces hsdM1 …
Investigating The Effect Of Longhorned Milkweed Beetle Larval Root Feeding On Resprouting In Common Milkweed, Margaret Donnan
Investigating The Effect Of Longhorned Milkweed Beetle Larval Root Feeding On Resprouting In Common Milkweed, Margaret Donnan
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Clonal reproduction is an important form of reproduction for many plants, and plants can grow clonally through a variety of methods, such as belowground stems, specialized organs, or adventitious buds on their roots (Herben and Klimešová 2020). In plants that reproduce via buds on their roots, researchers have shown that damage to roots can stimulate bud production and sprouting (Bartušková and Klimešová 2010). Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is a root- sprouting perennial plant that receives yearly damage to its roots via the feeding of the larvae of the specialist longhorned milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus) (Erwin et al. 2013). In this …
Carrying Capacity Of Cultured Bivalves In Cherrystone Inlet, Va, And The Implications Of Spatial Distribution And Environmental Change, Sophia Chirico
Carrying Capacity Of Cultured Bivalves In Cherrystone Inlet, Va, And The Implications Of Spatial Distribution And Environmental Change, Sophia Chirico
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Aquaculture is a growing industry internationally. In the United States, aquaculture of bivalves occurs throughout the Chesapeake Bay. Cherrystone Inlet, a tidal inlet on the Virginia Eastern Shore, is the location of intensive hard clam culture, and recently oyster aquaculture has become common there as well. Given the intensive culture in Cherrystone and similar systems in the Chesapeake, it is important to understand the carrying capacity of the respective bivalves and how they can be grown together. Carrying capacity is defined here as the largest population of individuals that can be supported that allows individuals to reach a harvestable size …
Honey As A Biomonitor For Air Pollutant Deposition In The Eastern United States Using Ion Chromatography And Scanning Electron Microscopy, Cole Cochran
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Anthropogenic activities generate metal, acid, and particulate air pollutants which negatively impact human and ecological health. In the United States, power plant, industrial, and vehicle emissions are leading causes of air pollution, however, the measurement of air pollution at high-resolution spatial regimes remains a challenge. Honey has emerged as a powerful biomonitoring tool to effectively quantify contaminants without the need for a large array of monitoring instruments. I hypothesized that honey could be used to effectively measure and map modern air pollutant spatiotemporal relationships over the Eastern U.S. Using ion chromatography with sulfate as an indicator for air pollution and …