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Diversification of plant-feeding insects: using informatics to explore the effects of natural enemy interactions 

Garcia Morales, Mayrolin (2016-05-05)
The aim of my thesis research was to gain a deeper understanding of the species diversity of plant-feeding insects. I pursued that aim with two complementary projects. In the first, I developed a web application to manage ...

Exploring the transcriptomics of polyphagy in plant-eating insects 

Christodoulides, Nicholas (2017-07-27)
The aim of my thesis research was to gain a better understanding of the genetics underlying insect polyphagy. My thesis consisted of three objectives, each exploring a different aspect of plant-feeding insect genetics. For ...

Investigating the transmission of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) among white-tailed deer in Alabama 

Zhang, Xinmi (2017-04-19)
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) is an arbovirus that mostly cycles between white-tailed deer and biting midges of the genus Culicoides. EHDV infections can be fatal for white-tailed deer and occasionally cause ...

Limits on populations of herbivorous insects 

Bird, Gwendolyn (2021-12-15)
Herbivorous insect populations are necessarily limited by biotic and abiotic factors. This dissertation seeks to uncover some of those limiting factors using using synthetic comparative statistical analyses including ...