Browsing by Author "Tarone, Aaron"
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Fisher II, Adrian Leon (2017-07-21)Honey bees (Apis mellifera) have been experiencing an ongoing decline in population over the last half century despite their tremendous importance to agriculture. A variety of environmental pressures have been implicated ...
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Zheng, Le (2017-05-03)Nutritional ecology provides a novel framework linking biotic factors, such as life-history traits of an animal, to abiotic factors, such as nutrients. Carrion serves as a nutrient-rich and ephemeral environment attracting ...
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Hayter, Jensen Todd (2022-07-21)Landscapes vary across space and through time, impacting many biological processes. Landscape ecology provides an investigative framework through which landscapes themselves can be characterized, and complex organismal ...
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Cosme, Luciano V (2015-12-15)When animals are exposed to new conditions they need to tune the expression of hundreds of genes in specific tissues and at a specific time requires the interplay of multiple processes. Females are required to locate ...
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McKenna, Claire Helen (2017-05-03)The green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) larvae are amongst the first colonizers of carrion and are well studied for their impact in forensics, decomposition ecology, and medicine. The larvae of L. sericata are the only FDA ...
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Jonika, Michelle Marie (2018-04-30)Calliphoridae is a large family of insects, and contains species Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Meigen), Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Fabricius) and Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) ...
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Fu, Shuhua (2015-05-13)As the advance in high-throughput sequencing enables the generation of large volumes of genomic information, it provides researchers the opportunity to study non-model organisms even in the absence of a fully sequenced ...
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Fu, Shuhua; Tarone, Aaron; Sze, Sing-Hoi (BMC Genomics, 2015)
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Javan, Gulnaz; Finley, Sheree; Can, Ismail; Wilkinson, Jeremy; J. Delton Hanson; Tarone, Aaron (Scientific Reports, 2016)
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King, Joan Theresa (2022-12-07)The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, is a globally invasive pest. Fire ant decapitating Pseudacteon flies (Diptera: Phoridae) are natural enemies of Solenopsis fire ants. They are parasitoids from the same native ...
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Davitt, Andrew John (2018-04-03)Nylanderia fulva, native to South America, is an ecologically dominant invasive ant in the U.S. that has spread to central Texas. This species is able to quickly form large colonies and displace established ant populations ...
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Flint, Casey Ann (2022-01-13)Biotic and abiotic factors that affect insect colonization of a carrion resource have been vastly studied. Such information is used to inform the time of colonization or post-colonization interval, which is crucial for ...