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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are remarkable creatures with a complex eusocial hive structure. There are two female honeybee castes within a hive; a single queen and thousands of workers. The only reproductively active female ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Gastrointestinal nematodes are the single most costly disease facing sheep production in New Zealand. Production loss due to parasitism is two-fold; the direct cost of anthelmintic treatment combines with production losses ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)The PAX gene family encodes a group of transcription factors that play important roles during embryogenesis with mutations resulting in developmental abnormalities. Normally expression of these genes is downregulated prior ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)How developmental pathways evolve to produce different morphologies is an exciting area of study. Most knowledge of invertebrate development is from D. melanogaster, or other holometabolous insects. However, the more ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)During a cyanobacterial bloom in Lake Omapere, cyanobacterial toxins were detected in Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) from the Hokianga Harbour using Enzyme-Linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). However, Detection and ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is an important cause of renal and liver related perinatal and neonatal death. ARPKD is presented as a gross enlargement of the kidneys due to the presence of multiple ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)The Cfm2 gene is conserved in vertebrates and is linked to various developmental anomalies in humans. This gene is a paralogue of another novel gene named Cfm, for caudal forebrain and midbrain. In the mouse, Cfm was found ... -
Is release factor 2 uniquely regulated because it is a key transcriptional regulator of other genes? (Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)Prokaryotes contain two release factors, RF1 and RF2, both decode the UAA stop codon but individually they are specific for UAG and UGA respectively. The prfB gene, encoding RF2, uniquely has a sophisticated autoregulation ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)Nearly 3% of the world ’s population is affected by some form of autoimmune disease, with current estimates of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prevalence at 0.7-1% of Caucasians. This degenerative disorder is characterized by ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)Gremlin (Grm) is a potent antagonist of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), which is highly conserved among vertebrates. A combination of functional studies and gene expression analyses in mice and chicks showed that the ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)This thesis looks at the role of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) during tail development in Xenopus laevis. BMPs are a group of signalling molecules and their role was studied by inhibiting them from the onset of ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)In vitro fertilisation (IVF) potentially provides a profoundly abnormal environment for an embryo. Studies with mice, sheep and cattle have indicated that the culture environment of the embryo can affect the imprinting of ...
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