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Developing A Writing-Intensive Course In Animal Physiology, Tomasz Owerkowicz
Developing A Writing-Intensive Course In Animal Physiology, Tomasz Owerkowicz
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
The project details how Comparative Animal Physiology, a two-semester upper division biology elective, is transformed to meet writing-intensive discipline-appropriate criteria. Targeted and scaffolded assignments allow students to write about physiology in a variety of styles, and to help revise each other’s work to better understand the iterative process of writing. Assignments are aligned with WI student learning outcomes, to promote critical, reflective and effective communication skills.
The Effects Of Selection For High Voluntary Wheel-Running Behavior On Nutrient Canal Abundance And Size, Nicolas Lawrence Schwartz
The Effects Of Selection For High Voluntary Wheel-Running Behavior On Nutrient Canal Abundance And Size, Nicolas Lawrence Schwartz
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Variations in skeletal morphology have often been used to interpret an organism’s overall activity level when direct observation is not possible. Although skeletal change in response to exercise is well documented, the skeleton’s response to mechanical loading is modulated by several factors (e.g. age, hormones, sex). Additionally, variation in skeletal morphology is partially a result of genetic variation, which is rarely accounted for in inferences of locomotor activity from skeletal remains. However, blood flow to long bones serves as a proxy for bone metabolic activity, which can be used to infer locomotor activity. Long bones receive blood from three sources, …
Variable Levels Of Atmospheric Oxygen Do Not Affect Microanatomy And Limb Bone Geometry In Alligator Mississippiensis, Susan Lee Lujan
Variable Levels Of Atmospheric Oxygen Do Not Affect Microanatomy And Limb Bone Geometry In Alligator Mississippiensis, Susan Lee Lujan
Theses Digitization Project
Striking changes in atmospheric oxygen levels have occured since the beginning of the Phanerozic 542 million years ago. Alligators belong to a clade of vertebrates with a long evolutionary history spanning much of this variability in atmospheric oxygen. An investigation into the effects of hypoxia and hyperoxia on skeletal growth and physiology in alligators may help to reconstruct the life history of archosaurs, explain patterns in the fossil record, and broaden our understanding of the processes underlying long term success of this clade.
Postcranial Description And Reconstruction Of The Varanodontine Varanopid Aerosaurus Wellesi (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria), Valerie Ann Pelletier
Postcranial Description And Reconstruction Of The Varanodontine Varanopid Aerosaurus Wellesi (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria), Valerie Ann Pelletier
Theses Digitization Project
The postcranial skeleton of the varanopid synapsid aerosaurus wellesi is reconstructed based on several specimens including partly articulated material of an apparently fully adult specimen. Comparisons are made with other known varanopid taxa, reaffirming its position as a basal varanondontine.