Biology Theses
The School promotes an interdisciplinary approach to both applied and fundamental research problems and to postgraduate training. Research in the School is organised into three major interdisciplinary centres: the Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI), Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC) and Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD). Together these centres encompass the full spectrum of research in biological sciences, spanning investigations on the properties and behaviour of individual molecules to planetary environmental dynamics.
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Recent Submissions
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Sounds beneath the surface : a multiple-approach study of bottlenose dolphin acoustic communication
(2023-11-28) - ThesisBottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) live in complex individualized societies that combine stable social units with fluid groups, and they largely rely on sound to interact with one another. This thesis applies a suite ... -
A half century of change in global marine fish biodiversity
(2022-06-15) - ThesisThe aim of this PhD thesis is to understand how marine fish biodiversity is changing in space and time, and how, over the last half century, global fisheries are exploiting species that play diverse roles in ecosystem ... -
Investigating the Kennedy pathway : phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis in Trypanosoma cruzi
(University of St Andrews, 2022-11-29) - ThesisThe Kennedy pathway is a ubiquitous pathway in eukaryotes that synthesises two major phospholipids, phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). Numerous studies have found that the enzymes of the Kennedy ... -
Factors affecting the distribution of cetaceans in European Atlantic waters
(2023-11-28) - ThesisThe waters of the European North Atlantic are subject to an increasing amount of anthropogenic pressure. Much of the environmental legislation designed to protect cetaceans requires detailed knowledge of the abundance and ... -
Modelling and inferring neutral and non-neutral forces shaping genomic site frequencies
(2023-11-28) - ThesisSingle nucleotide polymorphisms in samples of DNA sequences from one or multiple populations can be summarised as site frequency spectra. Since polymorphic sites are known to be predominantly biallelic, models for the ...
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