Theses, dissertations, professional papers, and doctoral projects from graduate students in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Sequestered Sequences: A Bioinformatic Approach to the Forgotten Genome, Dylan Barth

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The Role of a WRKY Transcription Factor in Mediating Hormone Response During Rice Seed Germination, Santiago Bataller

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The Genetic Relationship Between Peripheral Inflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease, Davis Cammann

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Biochemical Characterization of Fsa1572 from Fervidibacter Sacchari, the First Hyperthermophilic GH50 with Β-1, 4-Glucanase Activity, Jonathan Covington

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Long-Range Regulation by the Shigella Virulence Gene Regulator, VirB, Cody Cris

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Desert Spring Prokaryotes and Benthic Macroinvertebrates: Geological and Ecological Controls, Ariel D. Friel

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Evolution and Natural Selection of Olfactory Receptor Genes in Hawaiian Drosophila, Ngoc H. Ly

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Cellular Heat Responses of Desert Mammals Promote Survival in Extreme Conditions, Janessa Montenegro

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Informing Management Strategy for the Relict Leopard Frog (Rana onca): Insights Into Breeding Biology and an Attempt to Improve Augmentation Success Through Pre-Exposure and Clearance of an Emerging Amphibian Pathogen, Rebeca Rivera

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Regulation of Toxicity in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Envelope Stress Response, Melissa C. Schofield Londono

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Applying Unsupervised Multi-Omic Learning to Identify Patterns of Human Genomic Regulatory Regions with an Emphasis in Characterizing HERVH Loci., Corinne Sexton

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The Effects of Habitat Isolation on Fine-Scale Genetic and Geographic Structure of Populations of Two Threatened Endemic Insects in Southern Nevada, Pseudocotalpa giulianii and Icaricia shasta charlestonensis, Kristen Tovar

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Mob Family Proteins and Tricornered Kinase Are Required to Form Dorsal Appendages of the Drosophila Eggshell, Keala H. D. Watson

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Elucidating the Role of Tubby in Retinal Degeneration and Obesity, Adrienne Marrie S. Bugayong

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The Role of Nutrition and Hormone Signaling in Extended Larval Development and Obesity in Starvation-Selected Drosophila melanogaster, Jennifer M. Clark

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Climate and Soil Moisture Dynamics Inform Potential Climate Change Impacts on Available Moisture and Juvenile Tree Survival in Semiarid Forests, Carolyn R. Koehn

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Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Requirement in Centripetal Migration in Drosophila melanogaster Oogenesis, Sheila Mosallaei

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Juvenile Conifer Growth and Regeneration Across Diverse Climatic and Environmental Conditions in the Southwestern United States, Nikki L. Pirtel

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Development of a Novel Alzheimer’s Therapy, Lorena P. Samentar

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Linking Extreme High Air Temperature Events to Wildfire and Environmental Variation to Water Balance Partitioning in the Western US, Neil Savage

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Differential Gene Expression in Starvation Selected Drosophila Melanogaster, Katherine Schultz

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Analysis of 316 Omnitrophota (OP3) Genomes Reveals a Diverse and Ubiquitous Candidate Phylum of Putative Syntrophs, Predators, and Free-Living Nanobacteria Encoding Giant Open-Reading Frames., Cale O. Seymour

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Implications of the Evolutionary Past on the Activities of VirB: A Key Transcriptional Regulator of Virulence Genes in Shigella flexneri, Jillian Nicole Socea

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Genomic Analysis of Paenibacillus Larvae Bacteriophages, Casey Stamereilers

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Distributions and Habitat Associations of Blue Point Pyrgulopsis and Blue Point Tryonia, Chenoa Janine Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Mojave Desert Ecosystem Recovery: Potency of Biotic and Abiotic Restoration Methods in Low Elevation Plant Communities, Mary Amanda Balogh

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Trade-Offs Between Survival and Reproduction in Starvation-Selected Drosophila Melanogaster, Tammara Beeghly

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Landscape Scale: Inter- and Intraspecific Variation in Plant Interactions along a Stress Gradient in the Sheep Range of Nevada, Jordan Dowell

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Mojave Desert Plant Community Long-Term Response to Disturbance, Dominic M. Gentilcore

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Effects of Ecological Restoration Techniques in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Simone Ka-Voka Jackson

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The Effect of Pleistocene Glacial - Interglacial Cycles on Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Differentiation of Populations of Leptodactylus Albilabris (White-Lipped Frog) in the Puerto Rican Bank, Andre Nguyen

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Delineation of Events in Centripetal Migration During Drosophila Oogenesis, Travis Tait Parsons

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Long-Term Monitoring of Rare Gypsum Communities in the Eastern Mojave Desert: A Study in Science and Art, Tiffany Jane-Marie Pereira

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Assessing Minimal-Input Restoration Strategies for Desert Soil and Vegetation Restoration, Audrey Jean Rader

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Beyond Genetics: Addressing Activity in Microbial Ecology, Scott Christopher Thomas

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Effects of Disturbance and Restoration Treatment on Fertile Islands in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Camille Traylor

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Tree to Grass Water Use Ratios; Assessing Turfgrass’ High Water Use in the Urban Landscape, Tamara Wynne