Browsing by Author "Honeycutt, Rodney L."
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Gilad, Oranit (2009-05-15)Conservation biologists have used reintroduction as a method to reestablish extirpated species in their native habitat. Three important aspects of a successful reintroduction effort include: (1) a habitat suitability study ...
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Matson, Cole Wesley (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The Caspian region and specifically the Apsheron peninsula of Azerbaijan is known to be polluted with a variety of environmental contaminants, making risk assessment difficult. The wetlands of Sumgayit contain particularly ...
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Sweny, Jason Michael (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Sequence variation was examined for the Zinc-finger Y (zfy) gene and the mitochondrial control region for two species of pinnipeds, the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) and harbor seal (Phoca vitulina). The two species ...
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Scherer, Andrew Kenneth (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)In this dissertation I examine population history and structure in the Maya area during the Classic period (A.D. 250-900). Within the Maya area, archaeologists have identified regional variation in material culture between ...
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Hunter, Devra Denise (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This study reexamines the nuclear microsatellite analysis by Rooney et al. (1999a) of Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) to determine if this population underwent a genetic bottleneck as a ...
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López-Fernández, Hernán; Winemiller, Kirk O.; Montaña, Carmen; Honeycutt, Rodney L.; Crandall, Keith A. (PloS One, 2012)
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Tobler, Mathias Werner (2009-05-15)The objectives of my research were twofold: 1) to evaluate new technologies (camera traps and a new type of GPS collar) for studying large mammals in tropical forests, and 2) to study the ecology of the lowland tapir ...
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Ingram, Colleen Marie (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Microsatellites are repetitive DNA characterized by tandem repeats of short motifs (2 â 5 bp). High mutation rates make them ideal for population level studies. Microsatellite allele genesis is generally attributed ...
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Adkins, Ronald Mark (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The genetics of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COII) gene was examined in an array of primates, rodents and representatives of other orders of placental mammals. Among primates these phylogenetic ...
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Chirhart, Scott Edward (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Given the distribution and probable evolutionary history of the Peromyscus maniculatus species group, an interspecific comparison of microsatellite variation among these species would be logically based (at least initially) ...
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Crouse, Amanda Louise (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Genetic analyses of two endangered species of mammals in the Lower Keys of Florida (Lower Keys marsh rabbit, LKMR, Sylvilagus palustris hefneri; silver rice rat, SRR, Oryzomys palustris natator) were performed to evaluate ...
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Seabury, Christopher Mark (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are a group of inevitably fatal neurodegenerative diseases that occur in mammalian species. Ovine susceptibility to scrapie, the prototypical TSE, is ...
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Huebinger, Ryan Michael (2009-05-15)Bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, are large baleen whales that are characterized by an Arctic distribution. In order to provide proper management recommendations to the International Whaling Commission, a panel of ...
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Ruedas, Luis Alberto (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)In this study, intra- and interspecific genome size variation was assessed among species within the Order Chiroptera. Outgroup taxa from the Orders Dermoptera and Primates also were examined. This study additionally addressed ...
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Frabotta, Laurence John (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This dissertation has two major sections. In Chapter II, complete mitochondrial (mt DNA) genome sequences were used to construct a hypothesis for affinities of most major lineages of rodents that arose quickly in the Eocene ...
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Proudfoot, Glenn Arthur (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Sequences of the cytochrome b gene and genotypes from 11 polymorphic microsatellite loci were used to assess phylogeographic variation in ferruginous pygmy-owls (Glaucidium brasilianum) from Arizona, Mexico, and Texas. ...
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Walker, Mindy Lynn (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Intraspecific phylogeography and the phylogenetic relationships of recently-diverged taxa are best assessed with the use of a genetic marker that coalesces rapidly and thus provides phylogenetically informative characters ...
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Harlin, April Dawn (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This study presents evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear loci that there is genetic divergence among and within geographic populations of Lagenorhynchus obscurus. The effect of seasonal variation on the genetic structure ...
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Morales, Juan Carlos (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Phylogenetic relationships among some members of the bat genus Lasiurus were investigated using a restriction enzyme analysis of the ribosomal genes of the mitochondrial molecule. A new restriction site mapping strategy ...
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López-Fernández, Hernán; Arbour, Jessica; Willis, Stuart; Watkins, Crystal; Honeycutt, Rodney L.; Winemiller, Kirk O.; Higgs, Dennis M. (PloS One, 2014)