Browsing by Subject "life history"
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Evolutionary Relationship between Life History and Brain Growth in Anthropoid Primates
(2008-09-18)The pace of life history is highly variable across mammals, and several evolutionary biologists have theorized that the tempo of a species' life history is set by external factors. These factors, such as food availability ... -
Habitat loss, alteration, and fragmentation in river networks: Implications for Freshwater Mussels and Their Landscape Genomics
(2017)This dissertation focuses on the implications of habitat change in freshwater ecosystems. Habitat change has three primary components that are inextricably connected; habitat loss, alteration, and fragmentation. Habitat ... -
Persistent Life History Effects of Extended Starvation
(2013)Starvation during early human development produces epigenetic effects that could be adaptive if famine persists. We modeled the response to early starvation exposure in C. elegans using `L1 arrest,' a reversible developmental ...
