Theses/Dissertations from 2023
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
Food Supplementation Increases Reproductive Performance Of Ospreys In The Lower Chesapeake Bay, Michael Academia
Understanding The Function Of A MAPK-"STYX"-Domain Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Emma Marie Wilber Hepworth
Following The Frogs: The Terrestrial Habitat Of Virginian Anurans, Matthew Sinnwell Kane
Exploring A Connection Between MK-STYX And GSK3, Andrew M. Mattei
Nitric Oxide Affects Gene Expression In The Gastric Pathogen Helicobacter Pylori Via The CrdRS Two-Component System, Madison McKinsey
Using Multimodal Cues To Mitigate Avian Window Collisions, Moira Elizabeth Meehan
Impact Of Isoforms Of ArsS On Acid-Regulated Gene Expression In Helicobacter Pylori, Elisabeth Huntley Polanshek
Altered Intranuclear Dynamics Of Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptors In Resistance To Thyroid Hormone, Hannah Page Tofil
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Endangered Species Act: Quantifying Threats Impacting Listing, Delaney Costante
Bird-Window Collisions And Reflection As A Daytime Risk Factor, Lauren Celeste Emerson
Evaluating The Use Of Acoustic Warning Signals To Reduce Avian Collision Risk, Robin Grace Thady
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Chemical Warfare And Biofilm Formation In Multi-Strain Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Communities, Meredith Andersen
Reducing Avian Collisions With Human-Made Structures: A Sensory Ecology Approach To Open-Air Settings, Timothy James Boycott
Semester-Long Instruction In Drawing For Biology Changes Study Habits, Motivation To Draw, And Approaches To Problem-Solving, Jessica Rose Burns
Effects Of Dietary Methylmercury Exposure On Tissue-Specific Telomere Dynamics In The Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Guttata), Rachel Leigh Davis
A Comparison Of Shorebird Habitat Use Between Living Shorelines And Natural Fringing Marshes, Robert Michael Galvin
Female Aggression Level Mediates The Impact Of Anthropogenic Noise Pollution In Eastern Bluebirds, Heather Violet Kenny
Mercury Exposure And Chronic Food Stress Elevate Corticosterone In Blood But Not Feathers, Casey Lee McLaughlin
Speciation Dynamics Of Diverging Allopolyploid Monkeyflower (Mimulus), Caroline Victoria Schlutius
The K. Marxianus Small Protein Modifier Sumo Enhances Stress Tolerance In The Mesophilic Yeast S. Cerevisiae, Yasaman Setayeshpour
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Acetylation Controls Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Localization and Intranuclear Mobility, Cyril S. Anyetei-Anum
Range-Wide Variation in Common Milkweed Traits and its Effect on Larvae of the Monarch Butterfly, David De La Mater
Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Songbird Social Networks, Carly Elizabeth Hawkins
The Effects of Dietary Mercury Exposure on Male Fertility in the Zebra Finch, Ananda Menon
Carry-Over Effects in Complex Life Cycles: Linking Larval Food Supply with Juvenile Recruitment Success in Sea Stars, Emily Richardson
Ecology and Evolution of Common Milkweed, Angela Ricono
Investigating the Spatiotemporal Distribution of a Tick-Borne Pathogen, Ehrlichia Chaffeensis, Dylan Simpson
Immune Changes in the Anterior Kidney of Spawning Sockeye Salmon, Meaghan K. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Superoxide Dismutase in Songbirds: Effects of Mercury, Exercise, and Sex on an Enzymatic Antioxidant, Juan Mateo Botero
Subcellular Localization Dynamics of Thyroid Hormone Receptor and Mediator Complex Subunit 1, Matthew Robert Femia
Integration of Undulatory Swimming Kinematics and Ram Suspension Feeding in A Model American Paddlefish, Grant Emerson Haines
Misregulation of Genomic Imprinting Drives Abnormal Seed Development in Hybrid Monkeyflowers (Mimulus), Taliesin Kinser
Discovery and Characterization of Novel Sperm Development Patterns in the Nematode Rhabditis Sp. Sb347, Caitlin M. McCaig
The Effects of Timing of Mercury-Induced Developmental Stress on Songbird Reproductive Success, Ohad Jonathan Paris
Functional Analysis of Chinmo, A Presumed Transcriptional Regulator of Cell Fate and Behavior in Drosophila., Leanna Rinehart
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Differences in Sockeye Salmon Antibody Composition: Testing The Immunological Imprinting Hypothesis, Maxwell Elliott Chappell
Impacts of Invasive Phragmites Australis on Diamondback Terrapin Nesting, Cassandra Cook
Floristic Change Spanning 45 Years of Global Change in the College Woods, Williamsburg, Va, Caitlin Cyrus
Dietary Mercury Exposure in Male Zebra Finches Does Not Decrease their Attractiveness to Females, Virginia Greene
Does Sound Help Prevent Birds from Flying into Objects?, Nicole Ingrassia
Thyroid Hormone Receptor Nucleocytoplasmic Transport, Zhang Jibo
Density Dependence and Clonal Integration in Common Milkweed, Asclepias Syriaca, Mary Danielle Seward
A Test for Heritable Variation in A Wild Population in Response to Endocrine Disrupting Events, Emily van den Blink
The Effect of Methylmercury on The Auditory Brainstem Response in Domestic Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia Guttata), Sarah Elizabeth Wolf
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
Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Regulation as Mechanisms of Compensation from Notch Signaling Perturbation in the Developing Nervous System of Xenopus laevis, Catherine Hope Bianchi
An Investigation of Hermaphroditism in R sp SB 347, Maureen Catherine Farrell
Habitat use of the Declining Wood Thrush in Coastal Virginia, Vitek Jirinec
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
Temperature, Photoperiod, and Life History Traits in Drosophila subobscura, Heidi Joan MacLean
Effect of Noise on the Social Structure of European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Autumn Swan
Mercury Reduces Avian Reproductive Success through Direct Embryotoxicity Rather Than Altered Parental Behavior, Stephanie Yen Chin
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Adaptation of H pylori to Changing Environments Based on Allelic Variation of Sensor Histidine Kinase Arss, Monique R. Bennett
A Novel Test of the Immunocompetence Handicap Hypothesis, Jessica H. Ebers
Identifying SUMO Protease Targets and Investigating E3 Ligase Interactions, Mark Guillotte
Anthropogenic Modifications of Connectivity at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Ecotone in the Chesapeake Bay, Robert Earl Isdell
Using a Sonic Net to Deter Pest Bird Species: Excluding European Starlings from Food Sources by Disrupting their Acoustic Environment, Ghazi Mahjoub
Using Human Footprint Models and Land-Cover Variability to Predict Ecological Processes, Jessica Anne Pouder
Natural Variation in Fertility and GnRH Neurons in a Wild, Natural Population of White-Footed Mice, Peromyscus leucopus, Melissa Proffitt
Effects of Sub lethal Methylmercury Exposure on Pigment Coloration in a Model Songbird, Jessica Lynn Spickler
Rise of a Floater Class: Behavioral Adjustments by Breeding Bald Eagles in a Population Approaching Saturation, Courtney L. Turrin
New Insights into Fibrous Body Protein Complexes involved in C elegans Spermatogenesis, Christopher M. Uyehara
Impact of Mercury Exposure on Birds and the Effect of Molt on Mercury Depuration in Songbirds, Margaret Crossley Whitney
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Evaluating the Potential for Adaptive Response to Mercury in Captive-Dosed Zebra Finches, Kenton August Buck
Sublethal Effects of Methylmercury on Flight Performance and Molt in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Jenna Rae Carlson
Developmental Plasticity in Response to Familiar and Unfamiliar Predators in the Mud Snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta, Kelly Strickland Hoolihan
Methylmercury Exposure Affects Risk-Taking Behaviors in Zebra Finches: Tradeoffs between Eating and Being Eaten, Megan Elizabeth Kobiela
Investigation of Prophage in Clinical Isolates of H pylori, Kevin Alexander Leslie
Are Occupancy Models Feasible Alternatives to Collecting Breeding Data?, Morgan D. Niccoli
Using a Multi-Scale Life-History Approach to Explore Occupancy Patterns of Pond-Breeding Anurans in Eastern Virginia, Daniel Stewart Ramos
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
Microburst Damage Assessment and Forest Composition Reconstruction After Hurricane Isabel in the College Woods, Williamsburg, VA, Kjarstin Alane Carlson-Drexler
Sublethal Effects of Methylmercury on the Songbird Immune Response: An Experimental Study, Catherine Ann Lewis
Pax5 Signatures: The Identification of Pax5 Isoforms in Developing and Activated B Cell Populations of Rainbow Trout, Elizabeth Anne MacMurray
Sexual Dimorphism, Diet, and Body Condition of Rusty Blackbirds Wintering in Virginia, andrew John McGann
SPE-7, a Novel Regulator of MSP Assembly in C elegans Spermatocytes, Kari Lynn Messina
Life History and Ecology of the Freshwater Amphipods Gammarus pseudolimnaeus and Gammarus fasciatus in Southeastern Virginia, Lindsey L. Postaski
Transcriptional Regulation of the Acetone Carboxylase Operon via Two-Component Signal Transduction in Helicobacter pylori, Vanessa H. Quinlivan-Repasi
Nuclear Export Dynamics of Thyroid Hormone Receptors, Kelly Sue Subramanian
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Effects of Dietary Mercury Exposure on Spatial Memory of Zebra Finches, Taeniopygia guttata, Amanda Mae Bessler
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
