Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Placental co-culture model reveals Listeria monocytogenes utilization of monocytes for vertical transmission, Breanna Mackenzie Amelunke
Assessment Of Natural Roost Availability And Artificial Roost Preference By Indiana Bats In Scott County, Kentucky, Shannon Kerry Howe
Using Mesocosms to Model Optimal Levels of Body Size Variation in Larval Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum), Ian Kratzer
Changes In Fish Communties Throughout The Buck Creek Watershed In Relation To Land Use, John Clark Miller
Variation In Bat Activity Across Upland Embedded Wetlands In The Cumberland Ranger District Of The Daniel Boone National Forest, Brittany Ryan
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site, James Benjamin Stratton
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Small Mammal Species Richness And Relative Abundance Across The Elevational Gradient And Microhabitats Of Pine Mountain, Eastern Kentucky, Sarah Elizabeth Baker
Magnaporthe Oryzae Telomeric Retrotransposon (moter) Relics Further Highlight Telomere Dynamics In A Rapidly Evolving Fungal Pathogen, Jane Ellen Dostart
Comparison Of Spawning Habitat And Nest Density Between Buck Darter (etheostoma Nebra) And Striped Darter (etheostoma Virgatum) Populations In The Cumberland River Drainage, Kentucky, Jacob Charles Murphy
Body Size And Habitat Shading Influence The Consumptive And Non-Consumptive Effects Of Wood Frog (lithobates Sylvaticus) Tadpoles On Aquatic Invertebrate Communities, Brady Patrick Parlato
Genetic And Morphological Assessment Of Pigtoe Mussels (unionidae: Pleurobemini: Fusconaia/pleurobema Spp.) in Ozark Drainages, Logan Tyler Phelps
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Litter Breakdown And Benthic Invertebrate Detritivores From A Hydrologically Restored Stream, Jacob Becraft
Effect Of CBD On D2 Dopamine Receptor And CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Function And Localization, Elizabeth Dull
Evidence of Non-Strike Induced Chemosensory Searching by Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon Contortrix) During Cicada Predation, Henderson Cyrenius Gull
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Bee Abundance Along a Tropical Montane Elevational Gradient and Implications for Crop Pollination Services, Kristin M. Conrad
Bat Boxes as Mitigation Tools: Factors Impacting Microclimate and Myotis sodalis Roost Selection, Reed Crawford
The Effects Of The Estrus Cycle On Microbiota Composition And The Opportunistic Pathogen Listeria Monocytogenes Infection Process In Murine Models, Ryan William-Thomas Donkin
The Importance Of Surface Mining As A Landscape Variable In Shaping Wild Bee Communities In Central Appalachian Forests, Amanda Sheryl Dunaway
Possible Role Of Breeding Phenology, Brood Size, And Male Parental Care On The Number Of Nesting Attempts By Female Eastern Bluebirds, A Facultatively Multibrooded Species, Michael Daniel Patton
Assessment of Indiana bat reproductive condition, recapture trends, and temperatures of artificial roosts in Kentucky, Michaela L. Rogers
Impacts of Driving Factors on Annual Cicada Emergence in Relation to the Seasonal Abundance of Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix), Jesse Christian Sockman
Abundance Of Songbirds In Eastern Hemlock Stands Following Chemical Treatment For Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Natalie Sweeting
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Ecosystem Functional Consequences of Top Predator Mortality Due to the Invasive Shrub, Lonicera maackii, Josey Lee-Anne Berta
Population Demographics And Active Foraging Behavior Of Copperheads (Agkistrodon Contortrix) At A Recreational Site In Eastern Kentucky, Jocelyn Hendricks
The Role of Continuous Flowering Phenology for in Neotropical Plant-Pollinator Interactions for Use in Conservation, Chelsea Renee Hinton
Knockout of the trans-acting riboswitches in Listeria monocytogenes to disrupt downstream virulence factors, Robert Jackson
Perceived Predation Risk And The Responses Of Adult And Nestling Tree Swallows (tachycineta Bicolor), Natalia May Maass
Habitat Use And Nightly Activity Patterns Of Bats On A Military Landscape In Western Kentucky, Carson E. Mcnamara
Ecosystem Functional Consequences Of Body Size Variation In An Apex Predator (Ambystoma jeffersonianum), David Samuel Smith
The use of environmental DNA for the detection of Palaemonias ganteri (Hay, 1901), a federally endangered cave species, Andrew Joseph Stump
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Population Size And Habitat Association Of Etheostoma Nebra, The Buck Darter, Using Abundance Modeling In The Buck Creek System, Cumberland River Drainage, Kentucky, Harold Davidson Black
Gene Knockout Of PRFA And The Arginine Deiminase Pathway In Listeria Monocytogenes, Kearstin Edmonds
The Effects Of Oxidative Stress On P75ntr Signaling In Dopaminergic Neurons, Cassandra Marie Escobedo
Amphibian and plant communities of natural and constructed upland-embedded wetlands in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Rachel Fedders
Development Of An Avian Index Of Biological Integrity For Kentucky Wetlands, Kaitlyn Kelly
The Vascular Flora Of The Red River Gorge In Powell, Menifee, And Wolfe Counties Kentucky, Thomas Steele McFadden
Variation in mass and wing loading of nestling American Kestrels: possible effects of nestling behavior and adult provisioning behavior, Doug Mitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Natural Environmental Gradients Predict The Microhabitat Use, Fine-Scale Distribution, And Abundance Of Three Woodland Salamanders In An Old-Growth Forest, Joseph Alex Baecher
Platinum-NGR A Peptide Targeting Conjugate Of Cisplatin: Design, Synthesis, And Efficacy In Breast Cancer Cells, Amber Crutcher Crutcher
Local impacts of White-nose Syndrome on the foraging ecology of insectivorous bats, Shelby Fulton
Use of Song Types by Male Carolina Chickadees (Poecile carolinensis), Laura H. Jessup
Habitat use by wintering passerines in fire-managed forests along the U.S. Gulf Coast, Justin Michael Michaud
Sample Collection and DNA Extraction Methods for Environmental DNA Metabarcoding in Headwater Streams, Michael Triston Mullins
Assessment Of The Macroinvertebrate Assemblages From The Mesohabitats Of A Headwater Stream-Wetland Hydrologic Restoration In Eastern Kentucky, Rebecca Jo Roberts
Are Mussel Shells Environmental DNA Time Capsules? A Comparison Of Extraction Methods For Obtaining DNA From Shell Material., Kelsey Elizabeth Rogers
Development Of Novel Breast Cancer Chemotherapeutics Directed Towards The Attenuation Of Metastatic And Chemo-Resistant Breast Cancer, Joseph Daniel Rollins
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Characteristics, contexts, and possible functions of the vocalizations of Blue Jays, Dustin Eric Brewer
Wetland Condition Matters: Amphibian Richness and Abundance Change Across Wetland Condition Gradient, Kari Dupler
Efficiency of the TargeTron Gene Knockout System as a Transformative Protocol for the Mutagenesis of Listeria monocytogenes, Hilaree Noele Frazier
Assessing the effects of prescribed fire on foraging bats at Mammoth Cave National Park after the arrival of White-nose Syndrome, Rachael Elizabeth Griffitts
Anthropogenic Influence on Blackfin Sucker (Thoburnia atripinnis) Distribution, in the Upper Barren River System, Kentucky and Tennessee, Christa Rose Hurak
Molecular Basis of Sex Differences in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure, Maya James
Amphibian Community Composition And Disease Susceptibility In Ridge-Top Wetlands Of The Daniel Boone National Forest, Audrey Lauren McTaggart
Factors influencing pre-fledging mass recession of nestling Tree Swallows, Katrina DeAnn Reeda Moeller
Biotic Assessment Of Two Central Kentucky Streams: Examining The Effects Of Wastewater Treatment And Anthropogenic Disturbance, Daniel John Ratterman
Enzyme Analysis of Oxidatively Modified Proteins Post-TBI, Brittany Rice
A Vegetation-Based Index of Biotic Integrity for Wetlands of Kentucky, Noelle Newman Smith
American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) may use tail-pumping to maintain balance, Joshua Suich
Recruitment of monocytes to the pre-ovulatory ovary, Alex Paige Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Distribution, Movement, and Ecology of Etheostoma spilotum (Gilbert), the Kentucky Arrow Darter, in Gilberts Big Creek and Elisha Creek, Red Bird River Basin, Clay and Leslie Counties, Kentucky, Jonathan Bradley Baxter
Examining the Impacts of Valley Fills in Stream Ecosystems on Amphibian and Aquatic Insect Communities in Southeastern Kentucky, John Clayton Bourne
The Vascular Flora of Boyle County, KY, Heidi M. Braunreiter
Fate Of Captive-Reared Bobwhite Quail Released In Central Kentucky, Adam Carter
Vocal responses of Blue Jays (Cyanocitta cristata) to raptors that differ in predatory threat, Julie Dahl
A Comparison of Management Strategies for the Federally Endangered Running Buffalo Clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) on the Blue Grass Army Depot, KY, Alexi David Dart-Padover
Offspring retrieval behaviors after brood loss in the convict cichlid, Heather Witherspoon Govert
Reproductive Biology of Syntopic Blackside Dace and Southern Redbelly Dace in Two Kentucky Streams, Brajaan Hayes
Temporal Comparisons on the Genetic Variation of the Dusky Gopher Frog (Lithobates sevosus), Kristin Michelle Hinkson
Effects of supplemental food on the behavior, aggression, and paternity status of male Indigo Buntings (Passerina cyanea), Bradley McLeod
Vegetation-Based Metrics Of Biotic Integrity For Assessing The Ecological Condition Of Wetlands Of Kentucky, Tanner Matthew Morris
The Status of the Genus Taxus In Kentucky, Robert Reed Pace
Flight Vocalizations and Displays of Adult Chimney Swifts (Chaetura Pelagica): Description and Function, Louise Ann Peppe
Validating A Kentucky Wetland Rapid Assessment Method For Forested Riverine Wetlands Using Vegetation, Bird Surveys, And Landscape Analysis, JohnRyan Andrew Polascik
The effect of antibiotics on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm production, Courtney Paige Turpin
Effect of variation in nestling hunger levels on the begging behavior of nestlings and the provisioning behavior of adult American Kestrels, Katheryn Ann Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Landsat Evaluation Of Trumpeter Swan Historical Nesting Sites In Yellowstone National Park, Laura Elizabeth Cockrell
Vocal responses of adult Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) to potential nest predators and the behavioral responses of nestlings, Erin E. Grabarczyk
Interactions between Eastern Newts and Wood Frogs in an anthropogenically altered wetland system in eastern Kentucky, Chelsea S. Kross
Using GIS To Evaluate The Kentucky Wetland Rapid Assessment Method, Douglas Robert Mott
The Vascular Flora of Garrard County, Kentucky, William Overbeck
Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to a Headwater Valley Restoration at Slabcamp Creek, Rowan Co., Kentucky, Nicholas Primo Revetta
Distributions, Assemblage Structure, and Habitat Associations of Fishes in Two Streams of the Red Bird River Watershed, Kentucky, Eric J. Smith
Population genetics of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) in a forested ridge-top wetland ecosystem, Jennifer R. Strong
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Wintering white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis): home ranges, aggression and corticosterone, Marissa Ann Buschow
Validation Of Kentucky Wetlands Rapid Assessment Method (ky-Wram) Metrics Using Macroinvertebrate Communities Of Forested Depressional Wetlands, Britney Yvonne Garrison
Effects Of Thermal Acclimation On The Critical Thermal Maxima Of The Tropical Cockroaches: Blaptica Dubia, Eublaberus Posticus And Blaberus Discoidalis (blaberidae), Lauren Michelle Goode
Facultative adjustment of pre-fledging mass recession by nestling Chimney Swifts (Chaetura pelagica), Sagan Brianne Goodpaster
Effects of Variation in Hunger Levels on Begging Behavior of Nestlings and the Provsioning Behavior of Male and Female Eastern Phoebes, Christopher Adam Heist
Breeding Biology Of Chuck-Will's-Widows: Incubation, Brooding, And Provisioning Behavior And Characteristics Of Nest Sites, Ryan Sean O'Connor
Assessment of motility and hemolytic activity in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii from University of Kentucky hospital, Lexington, KY, Amber R. Stanton
Population Distribution and Abundance of the Blackfin Sucker (Thoburnia atripinnis) in the Upper Barren River System, Kentucky and Tennessee., Cory Daniel Stringfield
Winter Behavior and Ecology of Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis): Home Ranges, Habitat Use, and Effect of Weather on Foraging Behavior, Todd J. Weinkam
Assessment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pathogens Responsible for Causing Bovine Mastitis in Kentucky, Erica Denise West
Habitat Associations Of Stream-Dwelling Salamanders At Multiple Spatial Scales In Central Kentucky Headwaters., John Mark Yeiser
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
A Dietary Study of big brown (Eptesicus fuscus) and northern bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in Western Kentucky, Sarah Elizabeth Asher
