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Description:: Spiders (Araneae) are a megadiverse group of arthropods, present in all terrestrial ecosystems as top predators, playing a crucial role as main controllers of insect populations. Among the more than 47,000 described species of spiders, the perhaps most emblematic ones are the orb weaver spiders,...
Author:: da Silva Moreira, Thiago
Keyword:: Spiders, Systematics, Linyphiidae, Taxonomy, Neotropical, and Pimoidae
GW Unit:: Biological Sciences
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Hormiga, Gustavo
Committee Member(s):: Pyron, Alexander, Wood, Hannah, Lipscomb, Diana, and Clark, James
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Feeding success is critical to the health of all animals. Feeding in fishes is especially challenging given the viscous fluid in which they function. Throughout vertebrate history premaxillary protrusion, the ability to push the jaws toward prey thus increasing feeding success, has evolved...
Author:: Staab, Katie Lynn
Keyword:: Cypriniformes, suction feeding, Danio rerio, morphological novelty, convergent evolution, and jaw protrusion
GW Unit:: Biological Sciences
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Hernandez, L. Patricia
Committee Member(s):: Webb, Jacqueline F, Lipscomb, Diana, Forster, Catherine, and Richmond, Brian
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Spiders are a speciose group of arachnids that are a dominant predator of terrestrial arthropods. Among these, perhaps the most iconic are the orb-weavers, which spin webs from silk produced in abdominal glands. Despite steps forward in spider phylogenetics, there are still many undescribed...
Author:: Kallal, Robert James
Keyword:: spiders, taxonomy, biogeography, systematics, phylogenetics, and transcriptomics
GW Unit:: Biological Sciences
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Hormiga, Gustavo
Committee Member(s):: Pyron, Alex, Orti, Guillermo, Wood, Hannah, and Lipscomb, Diana
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The genus Leucauge (Tetragnathidae, Leucauginae) includes 174 described species from the tropical and subtropical regions of all continents with the exception of Europe and Antarctica. In this dissertation, evolutionary questions at different hierarchical levels are explored using the spider...
Author:: Ballesteros Chavez, Jesus Alfonso
Keyword:: Spiders, Microevolution, taxonomy, and Macroevolution
GW Unit:: Biological Sciences
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Hormiga, Gustavo
Committee Member(s):: Orti, Guillermo, Wood, Hannah, Lipscomb, Diana, and Pyron, Robert A
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) are a type of class 1 transposable element that comprise over 10% of mammalian genomes, and play a vital role in genome structure and gene function. SINEs have also been promoted as valuable evolutionary markers at the population, species, genus and...
Author:: Walters-Conte, Kathryn Brooke
Keyword:: lineage sorting, LINE, genome, and SINE
GW Unit:: Biological Sciences
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Johnson, Diana L.E. and Pecon-Slattery, Jill
Committee Member(s):: Pyron, R. Alexander, Johnson, Warren, Lipscomb, Diana, and Allard, Marc W
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Ciliates (phylum Ciliophora) are the largest group of single-celled organisms, some of the most complex cells known, and are vital to nearly every aquatic ecosystem. Historical understanding of the members of Cilophora has changed with the development of new methods and can be explained in five...
Author:: Foox, Jonathan
Keyword:: Prostomatea, ciliate, total evidence, ultrastructure, molecular systematics, and marine ich
GW Unit:: Biological Sciences
Degree:: M.S.
Advisor:: Lipscomb, Diana
Committee Member(s):: Orti, Guillermo, Hormiga, Gustavo, and Lipscomb, Diana
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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