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Advancing Behavioural Genomics By Considering Timescale, Clare C. Rittschof, Kimberly A. Hughes
Advancing Behavioural Genomics By Considering Timescale, Clare C. Rittschof, Kimberly A. Hughes
Entomology Faculty Publications
Animal behavioural traits often covary with gene expression, pointing towards a genomic constraint on organismal responses to environmental cues. This pattern highlights a gap in our understanding of the time course of environmentally responsive gene expression, and moreover, how these dynamics are regulated. Advances in behavioural genomics explore how gene expression dynamics are correlated with behavioural traits that range from stable to highly labile. We consider the idea that certain genomic regulatory mechanisms may predict the timescale of an environmental effect on behaviour. This temporally minded approach could inform both organismal and evolutionary questions ranging from the remediation of early …
Employing Limited Next Generation Sequence Data For The Development Of Genetic Loci Of Phylogenetic And Population Genetic Utility, Lauren Evenstone
Employing Limited Next Generation Sequence Data For The Development Of Genetic Loci Of Phylogenetic And Population Genetic Utility, Lauren Evenstone
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Massively parallel high throughput sequencers are transforming the scientific research by reducing the cost and time necessary to sequence entire genomes. The goal of this project is to produce preliminary genome assemblies of calliphorid flies using Life Technologies’ Ion Torrent sequencing and Illumina’s MiSeq sequencing. I located, assembled, and annotated a novel mitochondrial genome for one such fly, the little studied Chrysomya pacifica that is central to one hypothesis about blow fly evolution. With sequencing data from Chrysomya megacephala, its forensically relevant sister species, much insight can be gained by alignments, sequence and protein analysis, and many more tools …