Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Climate Change Impacts on Dryland Ecosystems, Tanner Tainui Aiono
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Linking Individual Behavior with Physiology to Understand Complex Life Histories, Doreen Cabrera
"The Trees Act Not as Individuals"--Learning to See the Whole Picture in Biology Education and Remote Sensing Research, Rebeka A.F. Greenall
Assessing the Role of Hybridization in the Evolution of Two Common Lineages of Lichen-Forming Fungi, Rachel Keuler
Taxonomic Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the philadelphicus Group in the Genus Proctacanthus (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae), and Key to All Proctacanthus North of Mexico, Teagan Marie Mulford
Gene Dive: Assessing the Diversity of Perchlorate Reducing Genes in Mars Analog Environments, Colin Michael Robinson
Food Web of Icy Strait, Alaska: Comparison of Position, Size, and Overlap of Trophic Niche Among Fish Species, Andrew D. Suchomel
Bridging the Gaps: Characterizing Alzheimer's Disease in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Populations, Justina P. Tavana
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Influence of Predation Environment on the Sensory Ecology of Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora, Alexandra Grace Duffy
Understanding the Ahupua'a: Using Remote Sensing to Measure Upland Erosion and Evaluate Coral Reef Structure, Logan Kalaiwaipono Ellis
Acceptance Finds a Way: How to Teach and Use Evolution's Explanatory Power, Daniel George Ferguson
Effect of Climate History on the Genetic Structure of an Antarctic Soil Nematode, Abigail C. Jackson
A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Stick and Leaf Insects (Insecta: Phasmatodea) Reveals Widespread Taxonomic Incongruence, Jackson B. Linde
Does Predation Environment Affect Repeated Responses to Predation Cues in the Fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?, Madeleine S. Nate
Quantifying Shape Variation in an Antisymmetrical Trait in Xenophallus umbratilis, Mary-Elise Johnson Nielsen
The Effects of Curricular Change on Student Learning and Well-Being in Biomedical and Clinical Education, Rachel Jalaire Tomco Novak
Biophysical Factors Control Invasive Grass Hot Spots in the Mojave Desert, Tanner Corless Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Saprotrophic Capacity of Endophytic Fungi, Emily L. Davis
Restricted Microbial Presence, Activity, and Community Structuring Within Dry Valley Soils of Antarctica, Scott Fillerup George
Using Phased Whole Genome Sequence Data to Better Understand the Role of Compound-Heterozygous Variants in Pediatric Diseases, Dustin B. Miller
Applications of and Algorithms for Genome Assembly and Genomic Analyses with an Emphasis on Marine Teleosts, Brandon D. Pickett
Phylogeny and Visual System Evolution in Sap Beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Nitidulidae), Gareth S. Powell
Taxonomy and Phylogenetics of Island Damselflies (Odonata: Coenagrionidae: Vanuatubasis), Natalie Anne Saxton
Test-Enhanced Learning in Post-Secondary Biology Courses: The Effect of Cues and Incentives on High-Level Learning, Bryn Ellen St. Clair
Increasing Introductory Biology Students' Modeling Mastery Through Visualizing Population Growth Models, Samantha Rae Wasson
Saprotrophy Among Endophytic Fungi, Emily Marissa Weatherhead
Synthesizing Phylogeography and Community Ecology to Understand Patterns of Community Diversity, Trevor J. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Designing and Assessing New Educational Pedagogies in Biology and Health Promotion, Kristian Ciarah Cook
A Morphological Phylogeny of Odonatoptera: Examining Missing Data in a Group with a lot of "Naturally" Missing Data, Robert James Erickson
Characterization of Hemicellulose Biosynthesis Genes in Avena, Melissa Coon Fogarty
Climate Change, Increased Wildfire Frequency, and Rodent-Exclusion Create Opportunities for Exotic Grass Invasion and Alter the Timing and Availability of Soil Water, Joshua Clark Gilman
Predation Environment Does Not Predict Life History in Morphologically-Constrained Fish Alfaro cultratus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), Kaitlyn Beard Golden
Diagnosis and the Role of Chemokine Receptors in Alzheimer's Disease, Josue David Gonzalez Murcia
Pedagogical Approaches and Instructional Content that Predict Increased Acceptance of Biological Evolution in University Students, Clinton Thomas Laidlaw
Analyzing Metacommunity Models with Statistical Variance Partitioning: A Review and Meta-Analysis, Kevin Vieira Lamb
Advances in the Systematics and Evolutionary Understanding of Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Gavin Jon Martin
A Lake Divided: Regional Shifts in Trophic Niche Structure of Lake Powell Fishes Corresponding to the Invasion of Quagga Mussels, Nathan Richard St Andre
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Transformation of the Dental Faculty to Promote Changes in Dental Educaiton, Clark A. Dana
Adversarial Deep Neural Networks Effectively Remove Nonlinear Batch Effects from Gene-Expression Data, Jonathan Bryan Dayton
Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Poeciliopsis Fishes, Andrea J. Roth
Resolving Relationships and Revealing Hybridization in Aliciella Subsection Subnuda (Polemoniaceae), Theresa Conley Saunders
Heterotrophic Protists as Useful Models for Studying Microbial Food Webs in a Model Soil Ecosystem and the Universality of Complex Unicellular Life, Andrew Robert Thompson
Mechanism of Positive, Non-Additive Litter Decomposition, Na Yin
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Genetic Basis for Elevated Rheumatic Heart Disease Susceptibility in Samoa, John Bowen Allen
Species Delimitation Predictions Using Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences from the Heteromys pictus-spectabilis Species Complex, Joanna Rosa Bateman
Small Mammal Diversity, Rattlesnake Demographics, and Resource Utilization in the Great Basin: Implications for Management and Stable Isotope Proxies, Bryan T. Hamilton
Diversity in Tiller Suppression of Domesticated Cereals: MorphologicalVariance Observed in Maize, Sorghum, and Setaria, Muriel Tahiameiani Longstaff
Analyzing Codon Usage and Coding Sequence Length Biases Across the Tree of Life, Justin B. Miller
The Evolutionary Significance of Body Size in Burying Beetles, Ashlee Nichole Momcilovich
Ecomorph Convergence in Stick Insects (Phasmatodea) with Emphasis on the Lonchodinae of Papua New Guinea, Yelena Marlese Pacheco
Biotic Filtering in Endophytic Fungal Communities, Kevin Daniel Ricks
Analysis of Whole Exome Sequence Data in Affected Cousin Pairs from High-Risk Alzheimer's Pedigrees, Lyndsay Ann Staley
Molecular Evolution of Odonata Opsins, Odonata Phylogenomics and Detection of False Positive Sequence Homology Using Machine Learning, Anton Suvorov
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Phylogenetic Relationships, Species Boundaries, and Studies of Viviparity and Convergent Evolution in Liolaemus Lizards, Cesar Augusto Aguilar
Integrative Analysis to Evaluate Similarity Between BRCAness Tumors and BRCA Tumors, Weston Reed Bodily
Integrative Analysis to Evaluate Similarity Between BRCAness Tumors and BRCA Tumors, Weston Reed Bodily
Role of Terrestrial Organic Matter in Food Webs of the Rocky Intertidal Zone, Douglas O. Fairbanks
Assessing and Improving Student Understanding of Tree-Thinking, Tyler A. Kummer
Bacterial Community Ecology of the Colon in Mus musculus, Rachel Marie Nettles
Response to Drought of a Stream Fish Assemblage in a High Elevation Stream in the Intermountain West, Richard M. Simkins
Lake Powell Food Web Structure: Predicting Effects of Quagga Mussel, Joshua A. Verde
Understanding Community and Ecophysiology of Plant Species on the Colorado Plateau, Hannah Elizabeth Yokum
Understanding Community and Ecophysiology of Plant Species on the Colorado Plateau, Hannah Elizabeth Yokum
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Anal Fin Pigmentation in Brachyrhaphis Fishes is Not Used for Sexual Mimicry, Kandace Mary Hugentobler
Accepting Evolution and Believing in God: How Religious Persons Perceive the Theory of Evolution, Katherine F. Manwaring
The Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera): Phylogeny, Origins, and Leaf-Like Crypsis, Joseph D. Mugleston
Phylogenetic Relationships of Cottids (Pisces: Cottidae) in Upper Snake River Basin of Western North America, Sun Yeong Oh
Molecular Studies of South American Teiid Lizards (Teiidae: Squamata) from Deep Time to Shallow Divergences, Derek B. Tucker
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Rab Proteins and Alzheimer's: A Current Review of Their Involvement in Amyloid Beta Generation with Focus on Rab10 Expression in N2A-695 Cells, Ivan Arano Rodriguez
Virulence of Photorhabdus spp.: Examining the Roles of Environment, Evolution, and Genetics in Insect Mortality, Dana Blackburn
Delimiting Species and Varieties of Cycladenia humilis (Apocynaceae), Holly Kathryn Brabazon
Water Use of Four Commonly Planted Landscape Tree Species in a Semi-Arid Suburban Environment, Michael Cameron Bunnell
Environmental and Adaptive Buffers that Mediate the Response of Subalpine Ecosystems to Environmental Change, Lafe G. Conner
Repeated Trait Evolution Driven by Divergent Natural Selection at Early and Late Stages of Speciation, Spencer J. Ingley
Latitudinal Variation in Lifetime Survival and Reproduction in a Burying Beetle, Clinton T. Laidlaw
Bioinformatics for the Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Cotton (Gossypium) Polyploid Complex, Justin Thomas Page
Exploring the Antibacterial, Antioxidant, and AnticancerProperties of Lichen Metabolites, Gajendra Shrestha
Evolution and Biogeography of Mesoamerican Small Mammals: With Focus on the Genus Handleyomys and Related Taxa, Ana Villalba Almendra
Diversification and Speciation Across Sundaland and the Philippines: The Effects of 30 Million Years of Eustatic Flux, Luke J. Welton
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Understanding the Diversification of Central American Freshwater Fishes Using Comparative Phylogeography and Species Delimitation, Justin C. Bagley
Perceptions and Influences Behind Teaching Practices: Do Teachers Teach as They Were Taught?, Stephanie Elizabeth Cox
Role of Epistasis in Alzheimer's Disease Genetics, Mark T. Ebbert
Generality of the Terminal Investment Hypothesis: Effects of Extrinsic Mortality and Resource Availability on Age-Related Reproductive Investment, Allystair Jones
A Molecular Phylogeny of Lampyridae with Insight into Visual and Bioluminescent Evolution, Gavin Jon Martin
Variation in Resource Utilization and Cost of Reproduction for Two Burying Beetle Species, Peter J. Meyers
Small Mammals Matter? Linking Plant Invasion, Biotic Resistance, and Climate Change in Post-Fire Plant Communities, Rory Charles O'Connor
Spatial Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Metabolism in a Shallow Wetland, Daniel Riley Rackliffe
The Interaction of Aeolian and Fluvial Processes in Dry Washes on the Colorado Plateau, USA, Beau Jensen Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Application of Next-Generation Transcriptomic Tools for Non-Model Organisms: Gene Discovery and Marker DevelopmentWithin Plecoptera (Insecta), Nicholas Gregory Davis
Biogeography and Evolution of Neotropical Small Mammals, with Emphasis on Hystricognath Spiny Rats of the Genus Proechimys (Family Echimyidae), Rafael do Nascimento Leite
Personhood and Cloning: Modern Applications and Ethics of Stem Cell and Cloning Technology, Sariah Cottrell McCarrey
The Effects of Isolation on Endemic Cozumel Island Rodents: A Test of the Island Rule, Brittany Marie Nuttall
Mitochondrial Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease and Aging, Perry Gene Ridge