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Spring 2019
Rapid advances in sequencing technologies and analysis methods have greatly increased our understanding of genomic architecture in non-model organisms. The mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a non-model organism that has received intensive genomic study and is of great...
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Population structure and associated larval host variation of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria
DownloadFall 2020
The forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria (M. disstria) Hübner, is a major forest defoliator with regional differences in host association across its range, but the factors shaping its population structure are poorly understood. In eastern Canada, M. disstria primarily feeds on maple (Acer...
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Speciation and hybridization in the Old World swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) species complex
DownloadSpring 2016
Species delimitation is fundamental to evolutionary biology. However the process is far from straightforward in systems with complex evolutionary histories, and the concept of species as taxonomic hypotheses is often overlooked in many biological disciplines. Here I investigate species...