Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Genetic Diversity of the Pathogen Streptococcus parauberis Isolated from Bovine and Piscine Hosts, Stephen Douglas Cole
Searching for the Seed Plant Ethylene Pathway in a Basal Plant Lineage: A Genomic Approach, Ashley R. DeCarme
SUMO-Dependent Substrate Targeting of the SUMO Protease Ulp1, Zachary Cole Elmore
An Investigation of the Polymorphic arsS Gene of Helicobacter pylori, Daniel Ross Hallinger
Behavioral and Mechanical Particle Selectivity in a Suspension-Feeding Detritivorous Fish, Matthew Kyle Heidman
The Effects of Methylmercury on Corticosterone and Thyroid Hormones in a Breeding Songbird Model Organism, Sarah Ross Lemelin
The Influence of Golf Course Landscapes on the Occupancy and Reproductive Success of Eastern Bluebirds, Marie Louise Pitts
The SUMO-Targeted Ubiquitin Ligase Subunit Slx5 Functional Interacts with the SUMO E3 Ligase Siz1, Jason William Westerbeck
Mate-Guarding in the Australian Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia guttata: for Males, Protecting Paternity is More Important Than Extra-Pair Copulations, Leah Catherine Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Flow Cytometric Analyses on the Activation, Proliferation, and Differentiation State of B Cells in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Maggie Jeanne Barr
The Lateral Extent and Spatial Variation of Mercury Exposure in Birds and their Prey Near a Polluted River, Mikaela Gioia Selene Howie
Survival in an Urbanized Landscape: Radio-Tracking Fledgling Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) on Golf Courses, Allyson Kathleen Jackson
Assessing the Functional Status of Created Wetlands in Eastern Virginia Via a Soil and Vegetative Developmental Trajectory, Sara Elizabeth Kreisel
In Vitro Application of Gold Nanoprobes in Live Neurons for Phenotypical Classification, Connectivity Assessment, and Electrophysiological Recording, Karl C. Mendoza
The Pax-5 Gene is Alternatively Spliced in Trout B Cells, Raaj Mahendra Talauliker
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Targeting the Sodium Iodide Symporter for in Vivo Detection and Characterization of Mammary Tumors in the Murine Model using a Novel Gamma Camera, Randall Eric Blue
Evolutionary Analysis of the Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase 67 Immediate Upstream Region in African Clawed Frogs, Jonathan Lomax Boyd
Songbirds, Pesticides, and Golf Courses: Exposure and Effects, Ryan Brennan Burdge
Using an Occupancy Modeling Framework to Test the Effects of Habitat Variables on Pond Occupancy of Mabee's Salamander (A mabeei) and Marbled Salamander (A opacum), Christy Michelle Fairman
Water Quality in Headwater Streams: A Test of Best Management Practices, Jonathan Worth Holley
Female Plumage Coloration in Eastern Bluebirds, Sialia sialis: Is it a Sexually Selected Trait?, Joanna Kay Hubbard
Mud and Mucus: Feeding Selectivity in a Suspension-Feeding Detritivorous Fish, Marie Louise Lammons
Prey Utilization and Energy Demand of a Breeding Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) Population, Elizabeth Claire Long
Previous Experience Shapes Mate Preferences of Female Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata), Kelly Caroline Minton
Mortality of Diamondback Terrapins in Blue Crab Traps: Population Changes and Conservation in Southeastern Virginia, Megan Ann Rook
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Mercury Levels in Newly Independent Songbirds, Anne Moire Condon
Broad Spatial Trends in Osprey Provisioning, Reproductive Success, and Population Growth Within Lower Chesapeake Bay, Kenneth andrew Glass
Nuclear Export of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor [Alpha], Matthew Edward Grespin
Interactions between Feather-Degrading Bacteria and Feather Coloration, Alexander Rahn Gunderson
Effects of Urban Development on Breeding Bird Diversity: The Role of Diet and Migration, Elise Anne Larsen
Analysis of Sequence Variation at Two Helicobacter pylori Genetic Loci Potentially involved in Virulence, George Warren Liechti
Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor, Vincent R. Roggero
Status, Distribution and Reproductive Rates of American Oystercatchers in Virginia, Alexandra Lee Wilke
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The Effects of Mercury on the Nesting Success and Return Rate of Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), Rebecka L. Brasso
Inactive Sulfide Mounds of the Manus Basin: Invertebrate Composition and Potential for a Chemoautotrophic Food Web, Kristin Lynn Erickson
Mercury Exposure in Terrestrial Insectivorous Birds, Scott Lawrence Friedman
Repeatability of Mate Preferences and Mate-Choice Copying in Female Zebra Finches, Amanda Karen Houck
Effects of Mercury on Condition and Coloration of Belted Kingfishers, Ariel Elizabeth White
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Community Structure and Biogeography of Mussel Bed Communities at Pacific Hydrothermal Vents: Lau and North Fiji Back-Arc Basins, 32° S---East Pacific Rise, and 38° S---Pacific Antarctic Ridge, Elizabeth Anne Blake
The Influence of Predation on the Nesting Ecology of Diamondback Terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Victoria Ann Ruzicka
Particle Retention in Suspension-Feeding Fish: Kinematics, Oral Flow Speed, and Particle Retention during Tilapia Suspension Feeding with Gill Rakers Intact vs Removed, Jennifer Claire Smith
Variation in Egg Size and Number in Drosophila subobscura, Minyoung Janet Yi
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The Effects of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide on the Neurons of the Preoptic Anterior Hypothalamus: A Mechanism of a Hot Flash, Daniel Cameron Braasch
Kinematics and Fluid Dynamics of the Ventilatory Cycle in Carp (Cyprinus carpio), William Todd Callan
Characteristics of Vesicomyid Clams and their Environment at the Blake Ridge Cold Seep, Taylor Perrine Heyl
Effects of Human Disturbance on the Breeding Success of Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis), Caitlin Rebecca Kight
Effects of Salinity and Nitrogen on the Distribution and Growth of Phragmites australis along the Rappahannock River, Carmen Rebekah Packett
Response to Selection of Peromyscus leucopus: Response of Spermatogenesis and Reproductive Behavior to Selection on Gonadal Development in an Outbred Population of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus), Kathleen Rathbun Sharp
Reproductive Attributes of Polynoid Polychaetes from Hydrothermal Vents on the East Pacific Rise, Jessica Lynn Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Effects of Overexpressing Alternative Isoform Pax-5E in Vivo, Suzanne Elizabeth Cole
Energetically Costly Mate Sampling and Female Zebra Finch Choice, Timothy Ryan Crabtree
Stability at Hydrothermal-Vent Mussel Beds: Dynamics at Hydrothermal Vents: Evidence for Stable Macrofaunal Communities in Mussel Beds on the Northern East Pacific Rise, Jennifer Carolyn Dreyer
Neuronal Responses to Melatonin in Peromyscus leucopus: A Candidate Mechanism for Circadian and Seasonal Temperature Regulation, Christopher Robert Fetsch
Do Sulfide-Oxidizing Bacteria Produce Light?, Rachel Elizabeth Ann Horak
Bird Conservation Value of Golf Courses, Joshua Elliott LeClerc
Specification and Determination of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Neural Phenotypes in Xenopus laevis, Mei Li
The Influence of Salinity on Diet Composition, Provisioning Patterns, and Nestling Growth in Bald Eagles in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Ann Catherine Markham
Sperm-Oocyte Membrane Interactions during Fertilization in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, Alissa Gale Richmond
Parasitism in Deep-Sea Chemosynthetic Mussels: Parasitism in Bathymodiolus Mussels from Deep-Sea Seep and Hydrothermal Vents, Megan E. Ward
Plumage as a Habitat for Bacilli, Justine M. Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Characterization of the xGAT-1 Gene in Xenopus laevis, Lisa Layne August
Role of the Cytoskeleton in Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor, Mandi Leigh Payne Brock
Avian Communities of Created and Natural Wetlands: Saltmarshes of Southeast Virginia, David William DesRochers
Analysis of Prey Selection in Black Skimmer, Rynchops niger, Adults and Chicks using Continuous Video Monitoring, Renae Joyce Held
Homing Success of Migrants Versus Nonmigrants: Do Differences in Spatial Memory Generalize Across Spatial Scales?, Jeffrey T. Keiser
Comparison of Mussel-Bed Faunas at Blake Ridge and Florida Escarpment Seeps, Kathleen Elizabeth Knick
Metal Concentrations in Deep-Sea Mussels from a Hydrothermal Vent and Cold Seep, Shana Rapoport
Transmission and Nutritional Contribution of Dual Bacterial Symbionts in Deep-Sea Mussels, Jennifer L. Salerno
Cloning and Functional Characterization of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1alpha Upstream Regions in Xenopus laevis, Conor W. Sipe
Use of Ponds and Lakes by Resident Canada Geese, Phillip D. West
Distribution, Abundance, and Home Range of the Whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus) in a Managed Forest Landscape, Michael Daniel Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Effects of Prostaglandin E2 on the Neurons of the Ventromedial Preoptic Area of the Hypothalamus: A Mechanism of Fever, Heather J. Ranels
Patch use of Winter Resident and Migrant American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) in the Coastal Plain of Virginia, Rhonda Lynn Hardesty Sipe
Comparisons of Community Structure between Seep and Vent Mussel-Beds, Mary Parker Turnipseed
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Age-Related Differences in the Prey-Dropping Behavior of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus), Eric G. Dunlavey
Allozyme Variation in American Ginseng, Panax quinquefolius L (Araliaceae): Implications for Management of Wild and Cultivated Populations, Holly Jean Grubbs
Differential Migration, Molt and Departure Date in White-Throated Sparrows, Zonotrichia albicollis, Kendell Jenkins
Adrenal Expression of cyp17 and hsd3b1 mRNA in Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii, Brian Thomas Lovitt
TR Phosphorylation & Nuclear Import, James B. Nicoll
The Energetics of Seasonal Reproductive Inhibition in White-Footed Mice, Michelle E. Rightler
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Suboptimal Foraging Behavior by Herring Gulls, Jennifer R. Gamble
Function and Regulation of Alternative Isoforms of the Transcription Factor Pax-5 during B Lymphocyte Differentiation, Marina A. Lowen
Plant Species of the Virginia Coastal Plain Flora that Are Disjunct from the Mountains: their Distribution, Abundance and Substrate Selectivity, Leah E. McDonald
Quantitative Analysis of Oral Movements in a Mouthbrooding Chichlid, Orcochromis esculentus, Erin Van Lieu
Stopover Ecology of the Blackpoll Warbler, Dendroica striata, during Spring Migration on the Coastal Plain of Virginia, Magill Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Frequencies of Suspension-Feeding Actions Vary with Prey Type in Oreochromis niloticus (Pisces: Cichlidae), K. Lara Ackermann
Phylogenetic Implications of Sporangial Ultrastructure in the Subfamily Lithophylloideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta), Mark T. Bedell
Reproductive Success of Black Skimmers on an Artificial Island: Effects of Hatching Date and Feeding Rate, Christopher Alan Gordon
Timing of Spring Migration in White-Throated Sparrows, Karen M. Johnson
Circadian Rhythms and Melatonin Receptors as Sources of Individual Variation in Reproductive Photoresponsiveness, Sean Bradford Majoy
Characterization of the Defensive Efficacy of the Sternal Secretion of Eurycotis floridana (Walker) (Dictyoptera: Blattidae), Matthew William Turnbull
Nest Site Selection of the Brown-Headed Nuthatch in Virginia, Valerie A. Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Ethanol Preference in Peromyscus: An Association with Compromised Ethanol Metabolism, James Scott Lowman
The Effects of Increased Inundation and Wrack Deposition on Photosynthesis and Respiration in a Virginia Salt Marsh, W. David Miller
Cell-Cell Interactions in the Development of the Vascular System of Xenopus, Krista Marie Stimson
Variation between Sparrows in the Ability to Extract Buried Seed, David Michael Whalen
Calcium as a Limiting Factor in the Distribution of the Amphipod Gammarus pseudolimnaeus, John Kinsley Zehmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Day and Night Differences in Water Regulation of Peromyscus leucopus, Haejin Erin Chae
