Biology (School of): Recent submissions
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Modelling the movements of flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius) in relation to a Scottish Marine Protected Area
(2022-11-29) - Thesis1. Movement shapes the lives of animals and their interactions with human activities. In recent decades, the emergence of movement ecology as a discipline and developments in electronic tagging and tracking have led to ... -
Molecular mechanisms and functional consequences of chromatin binding by the human cytomegalovirus proteins IE1 and pUL83
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-15) - ThesisInterferons (IFN) are an essential component of the vertebrate innate immune system against viruses and other pathogens. Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV), like other viruses, has developed strategies to evade the host IFN ... -
Social plasticity within and across generations : testing the role of plasticity in rapid evolution in field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus
(2021-06-30) - ThesisThe field of evolutionary biology lacks a full understanding of how phenotypic plasticity influences adaptive evolution, despite over a century of research effort. One under-studied question within this topic is whether ... -
An experimental investigation of the evolutionary dynamics of phenotypic plasticity under relaxed selection in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-27) - ThesisHere I provide an overview of the ways in which phenotypic plasticity is suggested to be relevant to evolutionary dynamics, and examine the various predicted dynamics of plastic traits in novel environments. Following on ... -
Structure and mechanism of two type III CRISPR defence nucleases activated by cyclic oligoadenylate
(2022-06-15) - ThesisProkaryotes have a wide range of antiviral strategies to defend against invading mobile genetic elements (MGEs). Type III CRISPR-Cas systems typically synthesise cyclic oligoadenylate (cOA) second messengers upon binding ...