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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Investigating Behavioral Responses To Lead (Pb) Exposure In A Cosmopolitan, Urban Songbird, Joseph Francis Di Liberto

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Egg Vibrations In Response To Parental Calls: Scrambled Eggs Or Genuine Feedback?, Liz Rose Ellott

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Hybridization As A Tool For Rapid Adaptation To Novel Environments In Virginia Asclepias, Casey Hensen

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Disentangling Directed Dispersal: Seed Traits, Shade Toelrance, And Squirrel Caching Decisions, Patrick Lynch

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Microbes Mediate Plant-Insect Interactions In Asclepias Syriaca, Ivan Munkres

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Exploring The Role Of Mk-Styx In The Cellular Stress Response, Jonathan Smailys

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Slow Apparent Recovery Of An Eastern Coastal Plain Forest After Intense Deer Browsing, Olivia Smith

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Is Diversity Dammed? Analysis Of Fish Diversity In Dammed And Undammed Estuary Streams Within The Virginia Peninsula Using Environmental Dna (Edna), Melinda Ann Spence

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Food Supplementation Increases Reproductive Performance Of Ospreys In The Lower Chesapeake Bay, Michael Academia

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Understanding The Function Of A MAPK-"STYX"-Domain Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Emma Marie Wilber Hepworth

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Following The Frogs: The Terrestrial Habitat Of Virginian Anurans, Matthew Sinnwell Kane

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Ecosystem Enriching and Efficient Solar Energy: Exploring the Effects of Pollinator-Friendly Solar Facilities on Ecosystem Function and Solar Panel Efficiency, Jordan Martin

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Exploring A Connection Between MK-STYX And GSK3, Andrew M. Mattei

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Nitric Oxide Affects Gene Expression In The Gastric Pathogen Helicobacter Pylori Via The CrdRS Two-Component System, Madison McKinsey

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Using Multimodal Cues To Mitigate Avian Window Collisions, Moira Elizabeth Meehan

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Impact Of Isoforms Of ArsS On Acid-Regulated Gene Expression In Helicobacter Pylori, Elisabeth Huntley Polanshek

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Altered Intranuclear Dynamics Of Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptors In Resistance To Thyroid Hormone, Hannah Page Tofil

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Mediator Subunit Med1 Differentially Modulates Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Localization And Intranuclear Mobility, Moyao Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Endangered Species Act: Quantifying Threats Impacting Listing, Delaney Costante

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Bird-Window Collisions And Reflection As A Daytime Risk Factor, Lauren Celeste Emerson

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Evaluating The Use Of Acoustic Warning Signals To Reduce Avian Collision Risk, Robin Grace Thady

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Chemical Warfare And Biofilm Formation In Multi-Strain Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Communities, Meredith Andersen

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Reducing Avian Collisions With Human-Made Structures: A Sensory Ecology Approach To Open-Air Settings, Timothy James Boycott

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Semester-Long Instruction In Drawing For Biology Changes Study Habits, Motivation To Draw, And Approaches To Problem-Solving, Jessica Rose Burns

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Effects Of Dietary Methylmercury Exposure On Tissue-Specific Telomere Dynamics In The Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Guttata), Rachel Leigh Davis

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A Comparison Of Shorebird Habitat Use Between Living Shorelines And Natural Fringing Marshes, Robert Michael Galvin

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Female Aggression Level Mediates The Impact Of Anthropogenic Noise Pollution In Eastern Bluebirds, Heather Violet Kenny

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Within-Flight-Period Dynamics Driven By Phenology And Transect Quality, Not Patch Size Or Isolation, In A Specialist Butterfly, Panoquina Panoquin, Sam Mason

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Mercury Exposure And Chronic Food Stress Elevate Corticosterone In Blood But Not Feathers, Casey Lee McLaughlin

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The Effect Of Slow Release Cortisol Implant On Humoral Immune Responses And Infection Prevalence Following Experimental Challenge With Flavobacterium Psycrophilum In Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss), Fatima Quddos

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Speciation Dynamics Of Diverging Allopolyploid Monkeyflower (Mimulus), Caroline Victoria Schlutius

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The K. Marxianus Small Protein Modifier Sumo Enhances Stress Tolerance In The Mesophilic Yeast S. Cerevisiae, Yasaman Setayeshpour

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Invasive Species Research in Compensatory Wetland Mitigation: Investigating Plant Community Composition and Environmental Correlates with Three Invasive Plants, Dakota Hunter

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Acetylation Controls Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Localization and Intranuclear Mobility, Cyril S. Anyetei-Anum

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Range-Wide Variation in Common Milkweed Traits and its Effect on Larvae of the Monarch Butterfly, David De La Mater

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Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Songbird Social Networks, Carly Elizabeth Hawkins

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The Effects of Dietary Mercury Exposure on Male Fertility in the Zebra Finch, Ananda Menon

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Carry-Over Effects in Complex Life Cycles: Linking Larval Food Supply with Juvenile Recruitment Success in Sea Stars, Emily Richardson

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Ecology and Evolution of Common Milkweed, Angela Ricono

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Investigating the Spatiotemporal Distribution of a Tick-Borne Pathogen, Ehrlichia Chaffeensis, Dylan Simpson

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Immune Changes in the Anterior Kidney of Spawning Sockeye Salmon, Meaghan K. Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Superoxide Dismutase in Songbirds: Effects of Mercury, Exercise, and Sex on an Enzymatic Antioxidant, Juan Mateo Botero

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Subcellular Localization Dynamics of Thyroid Hormone Receptor and Mediator Complex Subunit 1, Matthew Robert Femia

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Integration of Undulatory Swimming Kinematics and Ram Suspension Feeding in A Model American Paddlefish, Grant Emerson Haines

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Predicting the Impact of Sea Level Rise on the Distribution of Phragmites Australis and Spartina Alterniflora and Changes in Community Compositions in Tidal Freshwater Marshes of James City County, Va, Abbey Humphreys

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Misregulation of Genomic Imprinting Drives Abnormal Seed Development in Hybrid Monkeyflowers (Mimulus), Taliesin Kinser

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Discovery and Characterization of Novel Sperm Development Patterns in the Nematode Rhabditis Sp. Sb347, Caitlin M. McCaig

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The Effects of Timing of Mercury-Induced Developmental Stress on Songbird Reproductive Success, Ohad Jonathan Paris

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Functional Analysis of Chinmo, A Presumed Transcriptional Regulator of Cell Fate and Behavior in Drosophila., Leanna Rinehart

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Differences in Sockeye Salmon Antibody Composition: Testing The Immunological Imprinting Hypothesis, Maxwell Elliott Chappell

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Impacts of Invasive Phragmites Australis on Diamondback Terrapin Nesting, Cassandra Cook

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Floristic Change Spanning 45 Years of Global Change in the College Woods, Williamsburg, Va, Caitlin Cyrus

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Dietary Mercury Exposure in Male Zebra Finches Does Not Decrease their Attractiveness to Females, Virginia Greene

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Does Sound Help Prevent Birds from Flying into Objects?, Nicole Ingrassia

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Thyroid Hormone Receptor Nucleocytoplasmic Transport, Zhang Jibo

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Density Dependence and Clonal Integration in Common Milkweed, Asclepias Syriaca, Mary Danielle Seward

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A Test for Heritable Variation in A Wild Population in Response to Endocrine Disrupting Events, Emily van den Blink

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The Effect of Methylmercury on The Auditory Brainstem Response in Domestic Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia Guttata), Sarah Elizabeth Wolf

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Factors Affecting Temporal Variation in Occupancy of Two Common Species of Butterflies in Woodlands of the Eastern United States, Papilio Glaucus and Eurytides Marcellus., Angela Louise Zappalla

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Regulation as Mechanisms of Compensation from Notch Signaling Perturbation in the Developing Nervous System of Xenopus laevis, Catherine Hope Bianchi

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An Investigation of Hermaphroditism in R sp SB 347, Maureen Catherine Farrell

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Habitat use of the Declining Wood Thrush in Coastal Virginia, Vitek Jirinec

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Spatial Modeling of a Realized Niche: Investigating the Invasion of Sweet Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill) into Coastal Habitats of Virginia's Eastern Shore, Kathryn Elizabeth MacCormick

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Temperature, Photoperiod, and Life History Traits in Drosophila subobscura, Heidi Joan MacLean

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Effect of Noise on the Social Structure of European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Autumn Swan

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Mercury Reduces Avian Reproductive Success through Direct Embryotoxicity Rather Than Altered Parental Behavior, Stephanie Yen Chin

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Adaptation of H pylori to Changing Environments Based on Allelic Variation of Sensor Histidine Kinase Arss, Monique R. Bennett

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A Novel Test of the Immunocompetence Handicap Hypothesis, Jessica H. Ebers

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Identifying SUMO Protease Targets and Investigating E3 Ligase Interactions, Mark Guillotte

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Anthropogenic Modifications of Connectivity at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Ecotone in the Chesapeake Bay, Robert Earl Isdell

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Using a Sonic Net to Deter Pest Bird Species: Excluding European Starlings from Food Sources by Disrupting their Acoustic Environment, Ghazi Mahjoub

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Using Human Footprint Models and Land-Cover Variability to Predict Ecological Processes, Jessica Anne Pouder

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Natural Variation in Fertility and GnRH Neurons in a Wild, Natural Population of White-Footed Mice, Peromyscus leucopus, Melissa Proffitt

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Effects of Sub lethal Methylmercury Exposure on Pigment Coloration in a Model Songbird, Jessica Lynn Spickler

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Rise of a Floater Class: Behavioral Adjustments by Breeding Bald Eagles in a Population Approaching Saturation, Courtney L. Turrin

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New Insights into Fibrous Body Protein Complexes involved in C elegans Spermatogenesis, Christopher M. Uyehara

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Impact of Mercury Exposure on Birds and the Effect of Molt on Mercury Depuration in Songbirds, Margaret Crossley Whitney

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Evaluating the Potential for Adaptive Response to Mercury in Captive-Dosed Zebra Finches, Kenton August Buck

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Sublethal Effects of Methylmercury on Flight Performance and Molt in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Jenna Rae Carlson

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Developmental Plasticity in Response to Familiar and Unfamiliar Predators in the Mud Snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta, Kelly Strickland Hoolihan

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Methylmercury Exposure Affects Risk-Taking Behaviors in Zebra Finches: Tradeoffs between Eating and Being Eaten, Megan Elizabeth Kobiela

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Investigation of Prophage in Clinical Isolates of H pylori, Kevin Alexander Leslie

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Are Occupancy Models Feasible Alternatives to Collecting Breeding Data?, Morgan D. Niccoli

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Using a Multi-Scale Life-History Approach to Explore Occupancy Patterns of Pond-Breeding Anurans in Eastern Virginia, Daniel Stewart Ramos

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Investigating Heat Shock Protein 70 as a Binding Partner of MK-STYX, and the Role of MK-STYX in Neuronal Differentiation, Lauren Elizabeth Rusnak

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Microburst Damage Assessment and Forest Composition Reconstruction After Hurricane Isabel in the College Woods, Williamsburg, VA, Kjarstin Alane Carlson-Drexler

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Sublethal Effects of Methylmercury on the Songbird Immune Response: An Experimental Study, Catherine Ann Lewis

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Pax5 Signatures: The Identification of Pax5 Isoforms in Developing and Activated B Cell Populations of Rainbow Trout, Elizabeth Anne MacMurray

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Sexual Dimorphism, Diet, and Body Condition of Rusty Blackbirds Wintering in Virginia, andrew John McGann

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SPE-7, a Novel Regulator of MSP Assembly in C elegans Spermatocytes, Kari Lynn Messina

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Life History and Ecology of the Freshwater Amphipods Gammarus pseudolimnaeus and Gammarus fasciatus in Southeastern Virginia, Lindsey L. Postaski

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Transcriptional Regulation of the Acetone Carboxylase Operon via Two-Component Signal Transduction in Helicobacter pylori, Vanessa H. Quinlivan-Repasi

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Nuclear Export Dynamics of Thyroid Hormone Receptors, Kelly Sue Subramanian

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Effects of Dietary Mercury Exposure on Spatial Memory of Zebra Finches, Taeniopygia guttata, Amanda Mae Bessler

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Genetic Diversity of the Pathogen Streptococcus parauberis Isolated from Bovine and Piscine Hosts, Stephen Douglas Cole

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Searching for the Seed Plant Ethylene Pathway in a Basal Plant Lineage: A Genomic Approach, Ashley R. DeCarme

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SUMO-Dependent Substrate Targeting of the SUMO Protease Ulp1, Zachary Cole Elmore

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An Investigation of the Polymorphic arsS Gene of Helicobacter pylori, Daniel Ross Hallinger

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Behavioral and Mechanical Particle Selectivity in a Suspension-Feeding Detritivorous Fish, Matthew Kyle Heidman

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The Effects of Methylmercury on Corticosterone and Thyroid Hormones in a Breeding Songbird Model Organism, Sarah Ross Lemelin