Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "molecular evolution"
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Molecular Adaptations in Extremely Halophilic Protists
(2018-01-05)Halophiles, organisms adapted to hypersaline habitats, represent unique cases in which to study evolutionary and ecological processes. To overcome the high level of stress in these habitats and to keep cellular components ... -
On Models for Detecting Evidence of Molecular Adaptation in Homologous Sequences of Protein Coding Genes
(2019-08-30)Codon substitution models (CSMs) are commonly fitted to alignments of homologous protein-coding sequences with the objective of determining whether sites in the gene underwent positive selection. Under the standard paradigm ... -
PHYLOGENOMIC APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONAL DIVERGENCE AND SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION
(2012-03-02)With rapid advances in sequencing technologies and precipitous decreases in cost, public sequence databases have increased in size apace. However, experimental characterization of novel genes and their products remains ...