Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "phylogenomics"
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Being Aquifex aeolicus: Untangling a hyperthermophile's Checkered Past
(2012-01-03)Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an important factor contributing to the evolution of prokaryotic genomes. The Aquificae are a hyperthermophilic bacterial group whose genes show affiliations to many other lineages, including ... -
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 ... -
Studies on the Morphology and Evolution of 'Orphan' Eukaryotes
(2013-10-28)Most living eukaryotes are currently classified into one of five or six ‘supergroups’, which are in turn often divided between two assemblages: ‘unikonts’ and ‘bikonts’. This thesis explores the cytoskeletal morphology and ... -
Transforming the eukaryotic tree of life through isolation, characterisation, and phylogenetics of novel free-living protists
(2022-12-16)The overwhelming majority of eukaryotic diversity is microbial and protistan. Major new groups are discovered nearly every year up to this day. I established several dozen cultures of heterotrophic protists comprised of ...