• Influence of lab adapted natural diet, genotype, and microbiota on drosophila melanogaster larvae 

  Bombin, Andrei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

  Obesity is an increasing pandemic and is caused by multiple factors including genotype, psychological stress, and gut microbiota. Our project investigated the effects produced by microbiota community, acquired from the ...
• Multi-faceted “mudbugs”: how ecology, hydrogeology, and geomorphology influence burrowing crayfish biodiversity in alabama’s black belt prairie 

  Bearden, Rebecca Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

  Aquatic species are facing imperilment at a disproportionate rate compared to terrestrial species and thus higher probabilities of extinction. The southeastern United States has an exceptionally high level of freshwater ...
• Fungal succession and carbon quality as drivers of nitrogen removal capacity in a constructed salt marsh 

  Starr, Sommer Faith (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Coastal wetlands mitigate excess nutrient inputs by acting as important sites of denitrification. Despite their role in removing excess nitrogen, coastal wetland area has declined by more than 50% in the 20th century, ...
• Constructing a graphical model of the Drosophila melanogaster metabolome 

  Oza, Vishal Himanshu (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Metabolomics, a relatively late entrant in the ’omics’ pyramid, aims to capture a complete snapshot of the metabolome of an organism at any given point in time. Recent advances in mass spectrometry techniques have allowed ...
• Effects of Herbivory, Competition, and Disturbance on a Wetland Plant Community with Emphasis on the Dominant Aquatic Macrophyte, Nymphaea Odorata Aiton 

  Cherry, Julia Adelaide (University of Alabama Libraries, 2005)

  To examine the contribution of seed banks to the formation of distinct plant assemblages after a physical disturbance, plant percent cover on and off floating islands was assessed in the field. A controlled greenhouse seed ...
• Development and life-history traits affect larval anuran stoichiometry: a framework for understanding the role of larval anurans in wetland nutrient storage 

  Knapp, Daniel David (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Larval anurans may constitute the primary biomass of animals in geographically isolated wetlands (GIWs), but few studies have attempted to identify factors that influence larval body stoichiometry or their role in nutrient ...
• Investigating the population genomic effects of inhabiting heterogeneous landscapes across multiple spatial and time scales in montane bumble bees 

  Jackson, Jason (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Heterogeneous landscapes and the complex combinations of abiotic variation in both terrain and environmental variables such as temperature can drive patterns of genomic divergence and diversification across multiple ...
• The impact of nutrient loading on nitrogen removal and carbon dynamics in a juncus roemerianus and spartina alterniflora dominated salt marsh in the northern Gulf of Mexico 

  Ledford, Taylor (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Increased anthropogenic nutrient loading of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to estuaries and bays can lead to eutrophication, anoxia or hypoxia, and/or loss of native or other important species. Coastal salt marshes help ...
• A Systematic Revision of the Genus Heteranthera (sensu lato; Pontederiaceae) 

  Horn, Charles Norman (University of Alabama Libraries, 1985)

  The genus Heteranthera Ruiz and Pavon (sensu lato) contains species which grow submersed or emersed in streams and marshes. Species of the genus are found mainly in tropical and subtropical areas of the New World and Africa. ...
• The Occurence, Abundance and Distribution of Populations of Larval Fishes in Wheeler Reservoir, Alabama 

  Mundy, Phillip Roy (1973)

  This study of the larval fishes of Wheeler Reservoir deals with the data from the first year (1971) of a continuing, preoperational icthyofaunal monitoring program in the area of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Electric Generating ...
• Using C. elegans to investigate neuroprotective and risk-associated genes in Alzheimer’s disease 

  Griffin, Edward Franklin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Intracellular accumulation of toxic protein aggregates is the hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s (PD), Alzheimer’s (AD), and Huntington’s. Despite the association of AD with amyloid plaques, ...
• Influence of native freshwater mussel functional traits and community structure on nitrogen removal in stream sediments 

  Nickerson, Zachary Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Animals physically and chemically modify their environment as a result of their functional traits. These effects are particularly influential in freshwater benthic environments where animal aggregations can impact the ...
• Energy density and entropy production: their role in the carbon and energy cycling of subtropical longleaf pine savannas 

  Wiesner, Susanne (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Savanna ecosystems cover 20 % of the terrestrial surface and are particularly vulnerable to environmental fluctuations that are predicted to increase with climate change. Resilience, as the degree of recovery following a ...
• Modeling and analyzing cellular defects associated with movement disorders in Caenorhabditis elegans 

  Xu, Chuan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  As a powerful modern organism, Caenorhabditis elegans has been widely used to study pathologies behind movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dystonia. PD is the second most common neurodegenerative ...
• Interactive effects of sediment and nitrate subsidies on surface elevation dynamics in a brackish marsh 

  Nugent, Mollie Alice (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Sediment subsidies to coastal marshes, whether delivered during storm and flood events or via restoration activities (e.g., sediment pumping, dredging or diversions), are critical for marsh elevation maintenance and ...
• From behaviors to proteins: investigating behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying social competition in mangrove rivulus fish (kryptolebias marmoratus) 

  Li, Cheng-Yu (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Animals must extract information from their environment to make adaptive behavioral decisions when confronted with such things as social challenge. Previous studies have uncovered how different sources of information affect ...
• Influence of succession on fish assemblages in pond metacommunities 

  Olinger, Charles (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Metacommunity ecology focuses on the influence of regional and local processes structuring sets of communities, and theory predicts that the relative importance of those processes will change over time since initiation of ...
• Endocrine disruption in context: dose, compound, and route of exposure interact to affect the multivariate phenotype in mangrove rivulus fish (kryptolebias marmoratus) 

  Johnson, Elizabeth Lee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Human activities are having a huge impact on the natural world. Global climate change, urbanization, habitat fragmentation, and pollutants are all contributing to rapid and extensive environmental change and posing significant ...
• The role of ubiquitination in the innate immune system in arabidopsis 

  Guo, Tingwei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  My research using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is focused on unraveling the signal transduction pathways involved in elicitor-mediated plant defense, particularly defense pathways involved in resistance to fungal ...
• The Development of the Facial Muscles and the Facial Nerve in Human Embryos 

  Gasser, Raymond Frank (University of Alabama Libraries, 1965)

  The purpose of this study is to present a detailed and accurate description of the morphogenesis and histogenesis of the muscles in man supplied by the facial or seventh cranial nerve together with the morphogenesis of the ...

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