Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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    Nutrigenomics of Daphnia: Examining effects of nutrients on the Daphnia pulex transcriptome and identifying nutritional phenotypes

    Year: 2022, 2022
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Jones, Catriona Lucy Clare, Thesis advisor (ths): Frost, Paul C., Degree committee member (dgc): Shafer, Aaron B. A., Degree committee member (dgc): Crease, Teresa, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Organismal nutrition lies at the interface between biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem, dictating the transfer of energy and nutrients across trophic levels. Our ability to detect nutritional limitation in consumers is reliant on a priori knowledge of dietary history due to our inability to differentiate nutrient stress based on body-wide responses. Molecular physiological… more

    Using genomic and phenotypic data to explore the evolution and ecology of the North American mountain goat

    Year: 2021, 2021
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Martchenko, Daria, Thesis advisor (ths): Shafer, Aaron B. A., Degree committee member (dgc): Freeland, Joanna R., Degree committee member (dgc): Davy, Christina M., Degree committee member (dgc): Kyle, Christopher J., Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Evaluating the impact of climate change is arguably one of the main goals of conservation biology, which can be addressed in part by studying the demographic history of species in the region of interest. In North America, landscape and species composition during the most recent Pleistocene epoch was primarily influenced by glaciation cycles. Glacial advance and retreat caused species… more