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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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3102 Bioinformatics And Computational Biology

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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4101 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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Rutgers University - (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States)

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The functional significance of ribosomal (r)DNA variation: Impacts on the evolutionary ecology of organisms

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DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids.

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Comparative phylogeography of livebearing fishes in the genera Poeciliopsis and Poecilia (Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes) in central Mexico

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Effect of the Drosophila endosymbiont Spiroplasma on parasitoid wasp development and on the reproductive fitness of wasp-attacked fly survivors.

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Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus Poeciliopsis.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Spiroplasma bacteria enhance survival of Drosophila hydei attacked by the parasitic wasp Leptopilina heterotoma.

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Contrasting Phylogeographic Patterns of Sandy vs. Rocky Sympatric Sister Species of Supralittoral Tylos Isopods in Chile.

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From the Cover: Ancient and continuing Darwinian selection on insulin-like growth factor II in placental fishes

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Molecular systematics of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent endemic Brachyuran family Bythograeidae: a comparison of three Bayesian species tree methods.

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Evolution of African barbs from the Lake Victoria drainage system, Kenya.

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Transcriptomic response during wasp parasitism in the Drosophila-Spiroplasma interaction

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Population genetics and historical demographic inferences of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus in the US based on microsatellites.

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Rapid spread of the defensive endosymbiont Spiroplasma in Drosophila hydei under high parasitoid wasp pressure

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Population level genetic divergence and phylogenetic placement of Mexican shortfin mollies (Mollienesia: Poecilia: Poeciliidae)

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Contrasting phylogeography of sandy vs. rocky supralittoral isopods in the megadiverse and geologically dynamic Gulf of California and adjacent areas.

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Critically Small Contemporaneous Effective Population Sizes Estimated for Stocks of the African Bonytongue in Western Africa

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Coupling of bacterial endosymbiont and host mitochondrial genomes in the hydrothermal vent clam Calyptogena magnifica.

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Conflicting genomic signals affect phylogenetic inference in four species of North American pines.

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Molecular evidence for multiple species of Oasisia (Annelida: Siboglinidae) at eastern Pacific hydrothermal vents

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Global diversification at the harsh sea-land interface: mitochondrial phylogeny of the supralittoral isopod genus Tylos (Tylidae, Oniscidea).

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Draft Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis

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Constrained body shape among highly genetically divergent allopatric lineages of the supralittoral isopod Ligia occidentalis (Oniscidea).

# publications[].label
DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids

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Diverse toxin repertoire but limited metabolic capacities inferred from the draft genome assemblies of three Spiroplasma (Citri clade) strains associated with Drosophila.

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Survey of heritable endosymbionts in southern Mexico populations of the fruit fly species Anastrepha striata and A. ludens.

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A complex evolutionary history in a remote archipelago: phylogeography and morphometrics of the Hawaiian endemic Ligia isopods.

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A glimpse into a remarkable unknown diversity of oniscideans along the Caribbean coasts revealed on a tiny island

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Replicated hybrid zones of Xiphophorus swordtails along an elevational gradient.

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Diversification at the narrow sea-land interface in the Caribbean: phylogeography of endemic supralittoral Ligia isopods

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Genetic identification and diversity of stocks of the African bonytongue, Heterotis niloticus (Osteoglossiformes: Arapaiminae), in Nigeria, West Africa.

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Species delimitation and mitonuclear discordance within a species complex of biting midges.

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Rapid molecular evolution of Spiroplasma symbionts of Drosophila.

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Wolbachia pipientis associated to tephritid fruit fly pests: from basic research to applications

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Effect of heritable symbionts on maternally-derived embryo transcripts

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Independent origins of allotriploidy in the fish genus Poeciliopsis.

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Ancient versus reticulate origin of a hemiclonal lineage.

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Evolution in extreme environments: replicated phenotypic differentiation in livebearing fish inhabiting sulfidic springs.

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Wolbachia pipientis Associated With Tephritid Fruit Fly Pests: From Basic Research to Applications.

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Differential gene expression in a tripartite interaction: Drosophila, Spiroplasma and parasitic wasps.

# publications[].label
Historical biogeography of the livebearing fish genus Poeciliopsis (Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes).

# publications[].label
Ancient and continuing Darwinian selection on insulin-like growth factor II in placental fishes.

# publications[].publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

# publications[].label
Phylogeography of supralittoral rocky intertidal Ligia isopods in the pacific region from central California to central Mexico.

# publications[].label
Effect of heritable symbionts on maternally-derived embryo transcripts.

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A multilocus phylogeny of the fish genus Poeciliopsis: Solving taxonomic uncertainties and preliminary evidence of reticulation.

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Infection densities of three Spiroplasma strains in the host Drosophila melanogaster

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Phylogenetic analyses of the subgenus Mollienesia (Poecilia, Poeciliidae, Teleostei) reveal taxonomic inconsistencies, cryptic biodiversity, and spatio-temporal aspects of diversification in Middle America.

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Male killing Spiroplasma protects Drosophila melanogaster against two parasitoid wasps.

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The cost of ignoring cryptic diversity in macroecological studies: Comment on Martinez et al. (2017)

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Phylogeographic patterns of a lower intertidal isopod in the Gulf of California and the Caribbean and comparison with other intertidal isopods.

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Multiple transisthmian divergences, extensive cryptic diversity, occasional long-distance dispersal, and biogeographic patterns in a marine coastal isopod with an amphi-American distribution.

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Rapid spread of the defensive endosymbiont Spiroplasma in Drosophila hydei under high parasitoid wasp pressure.

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A new species of the live-bearing fish genus Poeciliopsis from northern Mexico (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae).

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Independent origins of resistance or susceptibility of parasitic wasps to a defensive symbiont.

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Out of Asia: mitochondrial evolutionary history of the globally introduced supralittoral isopod Ligia exotica.

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Phylogeography of the supralittoral isopod Ligia occidentalis around the Point Conception marine biogeographical boundary

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Preliminary Characterization of Phage-Like Particles from the Male-Killing Mollicute Spiroplasma poulsonii (an Endosymbiont of Drosophila).

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Ribosomal intergenic spacer (IGS) length variation across the Drosophilinae (Diptera: Drosophilidae).

# publications[].label
Preliminary Characterization of Phage-like Particles from the Male-Killing Mollicute Spiroplasma poulsonii (an Endosymbiont of Drosophila)

# publications[].label
Evolution of African barbs from the Lake Victoria drainage system, Kenya

# publications[].label
Diverse toxin repertoire but limited metabolic capacities inferred from the draft genome assemblies of three Spiroplasma (Citri clade) strains associated with Drosophila

# publications[].label
Evolution of African barbs from the Lake Victoria drainage system, Kenya

# publications[].label
Developmental stability and environmental stress in natural populations of Drosophila pachea

# publications[].label
Population genetics and independently replicated evolution of predator-associated burst speed ecophenotypy in mosquitofish.

# publications[].label
Rapid molecular evolution of Spiroplasma symbionts of Drosophila

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Heritable endosymbionts of flies in the families Drosophilidae and Tephritidae

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Phylogeography of Non-Vagile Coastal Isopods and the Controversial History of the Megadiverse Gulf of California-Baja.

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences; 2258 TAMU

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Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# etdChairOf[].label
Silva, Pinnaduwage O (2013-12). Maternally Inherited Endosymbiotic Bacteria Of Drosophila : Spiroplasma and Wolbachia. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Xie, Jialei (2013-12). Insights into Endosymbiont-mediated Defense of Drosophila Flies Against Parasitoid Wasps. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Santamaria Masironi, Carlos A (2013-12). Evolution of Ligia Isopods in three Geologically Dynamic Regions. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Lee, Eun Jung 1974- (2012-12). Phylogeographic Patterns of Tylos (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in the Pacific Region Between Southern California and Central Mexico, and Mitochondrial Phylogeny of the Genus. Master's Thesis.

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Ndeda, Violet M'mbone (2018-12). Genetic Characterization of the Genus ‘Barbus’ (Cyprinidae) in the Lake Victoria Drainage System, Kenya. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Troendle, Nicholas (2012-05). Convergent Evolution in Livebearing Fishes. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Manshouri, Reza (2017-12). Edge Ratchet and Simulated Annealing to Improve RF Score of the Supertree of Life. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Wang, Chang (2016-12). Out of Asia: Evolutionary History of the Invasive Supralittoral Isopod Ligia exotica. Master's Thesis.