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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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A microscopic, transcriptomic, and phylogenetic investigation of the contractile vacuole of Reclinomonas americana (Jakobida, Discoba)
DownloadSpring 2023
The origin and timing of characteristic eukaryotic organelles is one of the key questions in the evolution of life on Earth. For the most part, widespread eukaryotic organelles (e.g., Golgi, mitochondria) have been inferred to be present in the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) by examining...
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Fall 2022
Affinity maturation is the process to improve antibody affinity for an antigen during an adaptive immune response; it is mediated by the immunoglobulin mutator enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). This process is crucial to produce high-affinity memory B-cells and plasma cells. In...
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Fall 2018
Vertebrate vision is mediated through the absorption of light by the rod and the cone photoreceptors. Early jawed vertebrates initially had four cone subtypes, which sampled different regions of the visual spectrum to allow colour vision, and a single rod type which enabled vision in dim light....
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Systematics of Clupeomorpha (Osteichthyes:Teleostei) with methodological considerations for morphological phylogenetics
DownloadFall 2020
Here I conduct a systematic revision of Clupeomorpha, a group of bony fishes that includes over 500 living and extinct species of herrings, sardines, anchovies, and their relatives. Despite a long history of research on clupeomorph fishes, evolutionary relationships within the group remain poorly...
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Fall 2024
The taxonomic rank of species remains a fundamental unit in the study of biodiversity. However, speciation processes are diverse, making it challenging to delimit species. This difficulty is conflated by methodological issues including the use of too few characters, low sample sizes, and prior...