Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Cai, James"
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Zhou, Fangting (2022-07-10)Causal relationship, rather than statistical association, provides the basic understanding of nature. Learning causal structure from observational data is one of the most fundamental ways to explore causality, and the ...
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Purkayastha, Purboja (2022-08-29)Mechanical properties such as pressure, viscosity and substrate stiffness are inherent components of a cell's environment. Mammalian cells respond to such mechanical cues by altering their behavior. Mechano-responsive ...
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Xu, Lahong (2022-06-26)Plant roots are organs with multiple zones and cell types grown underground, which are constantly exposed to various pathogen attacks. Root cells can initiate pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) after recognition of elicitor ...
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Li, Jin (2018-10-03)A large volume of gene expression data is being generated for studying mechanisms of various biological processes. These precious data enabled various computational analyses to speed up the understanding of biological ...
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Jevit, Matthew John (2022-11-07)Despite the unique genetic contribution of sex chromosomes, their studies generally lag behind the rest of the genome. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to advance the assembly, annotation of sex chromosomes in domestic ...
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Wang, Gang (2016-05-09)Variation and variability of gene expression are central concepts in biology. Variation refers to differences among individuals, whereas variability refers to the potential of a population to vary. The advent of next-generation ...
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Li, Jingjia (2020-12-03)Drought, a major threat to the health and productivity of both natural ecosystems and agriculture, is expected to increase in frequency and intensity across many regions as a consequence of climate change and repurposing ...
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Zhang, Linying (2022-06-07)As a prototypic ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila harbors two functionally and physically distinct nuclei within a shared cytoplasm. During the vegetative phase of the life cycle, the S phases of the diploid ...
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Hollenbeck, Christopher Michael (2016-04-26)Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) is an economically important marine fish species that supports a large recreational fishery in the United States and is cultured for both restoration and commercial purposes. Characterizing ...
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Identification and Morphological Variation of an Invasive Parasite in Introduced and Native Lizards Sakla, Andrew John (2018-11-23)Exotic species can threaten biodiversity by introducing parasites to native hosts. Thus, it is critical to identify if the same parasite species is infecting both native and exotic hosts. Developmental or environmentally ...
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Xing, Yue (2018-11-16)Copy number variants (CNV) are insertions or deletions of 1 kb or larger in a genome with variable number of copies compared to a reference genome that can affect phenotypic expression. Methods for identifying and applying ...
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Liu, Fan (2018-11-06)Jasmonic Acid (JA) is one of the important substances that associates with stomatal closure under drought stress for maize. In this project, we performed multiple network analyses to identify the expression patterns of JA ...
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Li, Guanxun (2022-07-27)Significant progress has been achieved in computer inference for Bayesian models during the past few decades. There has been continuous improvement in a wide variety of computational tools. In this thesis, we extend several ...
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Mason, Victor Christian (2016-05-06)The ability to uncover the phylogenetic history of archived museum material with molecular techniques has rapidly improved due to the reduced cost and increased sequence capacity of next-generation sequencing technologies. ...
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Zhong, Yan (2021-03-12)Datasets with a large number of observations and variables, called large datasets, become ubiquitous as a consequence of the development of technology. To deal with large datasets, data scientists face challenges such as ...
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Ghosh, Sharmila (2014-07-30)This is a study of copy number variations (CNVs) in the horse genome to gain knowledge about the role of CNVs in equine biology, and their contribution to complex diseases and disorders. We constructed a 400K whole-genome ...
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Blandon, Ivonne Rodriguez (2018-12-10)Southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) provides important commercial and recreational fisheries opportunities on the Texas coast. The economic impact of this fishery is negatively affected by recent declines in harvest ...
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He, Wenliang (2019-03-25)Enterocytes, the major absorptive cells in small intestine, have high rates of growth and turnover at the early stage. These properties make the cells have a high demand for energy. An integrated knowledge on metabolic ...
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Little, Sara Victoria (2019-08-28)Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is a major opportunistic canine pathogen that has been associated with an increasing number of human infections. As an opportunist, S. pseudintermedius causes a wide range of infections, ...
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Wang, Meichen (2016-05-24)Pregnane X receptor (PXR) is a ligand-activated nuclear receptor that regulates gene expression of the metabolizing enzymes that are involved in detoxification of endogenous and exogenous compounds in the gastrointestinal ...