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  • Natural chimerism in the invasive colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum 
    Weinberg, Rachel Beth (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    Colonial, asexually reproducing organisms are typically treated as genetically homogenous entities composed of clonal units. However, processes such as fusion and somatic mutation may lead to the integration of multiple ...
  • Phylogeography of Leptasterias species relative to an estuarine outflow in the Pacific Northwest 
    Perez, Jeyna Kim (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    Comparing the phylogeography of sympatric species complexes can provide evidence of shared responses to historic events. Leptasterias is a genus of brooding, low-dispersing sea stars comprising several cryptic species ...
  • Variation in reproductive strategies of Embiotocids : a comparative approach 
    Izumiyama, Michael S. (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    Reproductive strategies of marine fishes are diverse, surfperches (Embiotocidae) represent a unique family of viviparous fishes that exhibit internal fertilization, gestation to the sub-adult stage, and live-birth. ...
  • Preliminary monograph of Marasmius from Sao Tome and Principe 
    Grace, Christopher Lee (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    This treatise serves as a preliminary monograph and phylogenetic treatment of Marasmius from the African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe (ST&P), based on data generated from 30 specimens collected in 2008. Twenty-one ...
  • Intron evolution and the origin of animals 
    Weinstein, Brooke Nina (San Francisco State University, 2018)
    The relationship between molecular complexity and organismal complexity is a central question in biology’s quest to understand the phenotype-genotype connection. Several recent studies tackled this problem on a genome-wide ...