Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Author "Erickson, Timothy"
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Arrangement of dermal chromatophore units in a polymorphic species, Ranitomeya imitator
De Araujo Miles, Mallory (East Carolina University, 2021-12-03)In the 1980s, Rainer Schulte became the first to describe a species of poison frog living in the Amazon rainforest: Ranitomeya imitator. Schulte's classification of R. imitator as a single species sparked immediate ... -
THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL EXPERIENCE ON THE SYNERGISTIC NEUROMODULATION OF MOTOR CIRCUITS
Clements, Katie (East Carolina University, 2022-07-15)Forming social groups is a critical adaptive strategy for the survival of many animal species, where conflict between members can result in dominance relationships. Dominance relationships are often formed through aggressive ... -
THE ROLE OF THE LATERAL LINE IN EARLY LARVAL ZEBRAFISH AND CONTRIBUTION TO MULTISENSORY BEHAVIORS
Venuto, Alexandra (East Carolina University, 2023-07-21)The lateral line is a hair cell-based sensory system that is important for multisensory behaviors like schooling, rheotaxis, and predator/prey detection in aquatic vertebrates. This dissertation work uses the first genetic ...