Cooperative breeding describes a system where group members provide regular, unsolicited allomaternal care for offspring that are not genetically their own (Emlen 1991 Hrdy 2009). Most cooperative breeders live in groups ...

The central theme of this dissertation research addresses fundamental ecological questions about community assembly (which species are found in a given place). This includes our understanding of the role of abiotic stresses ...

Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) can detect copy number variation (CNV) across the genome. Five current Hidden Markov Model (HMM) software systems for estimating copy number variation with aCGH data were ...