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A comprehensive assessment of peroxisome biology: ER-dependent peroxisome proliferation control, evolution of organelle inheritance in yeast and a Drosophila model system of Zellweger syndrome
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The modern eukaryotic cell is a meshwork of encapsulating membranes that compartmentalize many distinct biochemical processes. It is complex. This complexity facilitates the many unique and diverse processes that aid the eukaryote in its growth, division and adaptation to its environment. A...
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A molecular assessment of range expansion of the northern or virile crayfish (Orconectes virilis), crayfish-based community co-structure, and phylogeny of crayfish-affiliated symbionts
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Geographical limits of a species’ range are determined in part by the environmental tolerances of that species, and also by its past and current ability to colonize new areas. Range shifts are a common occurrence in the evolutionary history of almost all taxa; however, anthropogenically-mediated...
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2015-10-27
Jayaraman, Dhileepkumar , Zhang, Yong , Radhakrishnan, Guru V , Sederoff, Heike Winter , Malbreil, Mathilde , Sekimoto, Hiroyuki , Surek, Barbara , Delaux, Pierre-Marc, Ané, Jean-Michel , Roux, Christophe , Sussman, Michael R , Dunand, Christophe , Rothfels, Carl J , Oldroyd, Giles ED , Cheema, Jitender , Wong, Gane Ka-Shu , Stevenson, Dennis W , Melkonian, Michael , Pokorny, Lisa , Morris, Richard J , Nishiyama, Tomoaki , Volkening, Jeremy D
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An ancestral role in de novo peroxisome assembly is retained by the divisional peroxin Pex11 in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
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This thesis is on peroxisome evolution and reports my findings with regard to two major aspects of this process. First, I investigated the evolution of a peroxisomal protein family for which large expansions had been noted in diverse eukaryotes from a comparative genomic perspective and combined...
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Analyzing taphonomic deformation of ankylosaur skulls using retrodeformation and finite element analysis
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Taphonomic deformation can make the interpretation of vertebrate fossil morphology difficult. The effects of taphonomic deformation are investigated in two ankylosaurid dinosaur taxa, Euoplocephalus tutus (to investigate effects on our understanding of intraspecific variation) and Minotaurasaurus...
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Fall 2017
Flaviviruses are important human pathogens that have an enormous impact on global health. Examples that have been studied in my research include dengue virus (DENV), West Nile virus (WNV) and most recently, Zika virus (ZIKV). Currently, there are very few vaccines against or therapeutic...
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Comparative Analysis of the Anatomy of the Myxinoidea and the Ancestry of Early Vertebrate Lineages
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The question of whether a hagfish is a true vertebrate or not has profound implications about the ancestry of the clade. New anatomical evidence allows a test of their systematic position. With dissections and serial sections of original specimens, and with a literature review, a comparative...
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2003
Jiang, Tao, Lin, Guohui, Chen, Zhi-Zhong
Technical report TR03-06. Given a set of species and their similarity data, an important problem in evolutionary biology is how to reconstruct a phylogeny (also called evolutionary tree) so that species are close in the phylogeny if and only if they have high similarity. Assume that the...