158 research outputs found
Beryl Reid Says... Good Evening: Performing Queer Identity on British Television
No full textBeryl Reid Says… Good Evening was a comedy revue series broadcast on BBC television in the late 1960s which showcased the talents of a renowned British character comedy performer. Beryl Reid’s career spanned music hall, variety theatre, dramatic acting, radio comedy, film and television. She was a celebrity figure from the 1950s to her death in the 1990s but never became a ‘star’ as such. Reid’s work is addressed as a form of queer performance, both in roles which reference lesbian sexuality and roles which depict eccentric femininities. This television series was one of the few attempts to showcase her talents, and it is discussed here as an example of how character comedy queers heteronormativity through its camp attention to the everyday
Character analysis of adaptations for tarsal pollen collection in the Bombyliidae (Insecta: Diptera): the benefits of putting your foot in your mouth
No full textNeff, John L., Simpson, Beryl B., Evenhuis, Neal L., Dieringer, Gregg (2003): Character analysis of adaptations for tarsal pollen collection in the Bombyliidae (Insecta: Diptera): the benefits of putting your foot in your mouth. Zootaxa 157: 1-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.157.1.1, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.157.1.
FIGURES 2–6 in Character analysis of adaptations for tarsal pollen collection in the Bombyliidae (Insecta: Diptera): the benefits of putting your foot in your mouth
No full textFIGURES 2–6. Female tarsal setae of Bombyliidae. 2. Neodiplocampta paradoxa, foretarsus with capitate setae, 231 x. 3. Dipalta serpentina, apex of foretarsal capitate seta, 800 x. 4. Dipalta serpentina, foretarsal capitate setae plus microtrichia, 800 x. 5. Neodiplocampta paradoxa, foretarsus plus apex of tibia, 63 x. 6. Bombylius major, tarsomere 5 and pretarsus of foreleg with lanceolate setae, 370 x.Published as part of Neff, John L., Simpson, Beryl B., Evenhuis, Neal L. & Dieringer, Gregg, 2003, Character analysis of adaptations for tarsal pollen collection in the Bombyliidae (Insecta: Diptera): the benefits of putting your foot in your mouth, pp. 1-14 in Zootaxa 157 on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.157.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/509343
FIGURES 7–12 in Character analysis of adaptations for tarsal pollen collection in the Bombyliidae (Insecta: Diptera): the benefits of putting your foot in your mouth
No full textFIGURES 7–12. Female tarsal setae of Bombyliidae. 7. Poecilognathus sulphureus, spatulate setae, 2000 x. 8. P. sulphureus, lateral view tarsomeres 3, 4, and 5 with microtrichia, normal setae and apicoventral spatulate setae, 300 x. 9. Hemipenthes jaennickeana, apex foretarsal spatulate setae, 2660 x. 10. Exoprosopa eremita, distal tarsomeres and pretarsus with weakly spatulate setae, 270 x. 11. H. jaennickeana, foretarsal spatulate setae plus microtrichia, 990 x. 12. P. lucifer, lateral view of foretarsomere 2 with elongate, weakly clavate setae, 160 x.Published as part of Neff, John L., Simpson, Beryl B., Evenhuis, Neal L. & Dieringer, Gregg, 2003, Character analysis of adaptations for tarsal pollen collection in the Bombyliidae (Insecta: Diptera): the benefits of putting your foot in your mouth, pp. 1-14 in Zootaxa 157 on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.157.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/509343
Alice and Cliff Donahue
No full textPhotograph - Friends of Alice B. and William Clifford Donahue, Athabasca, Alberta. Seated, left to right: Cliff Donahue, Joe Mikkelsen, Beryl Mikkelsen, and Marge Logan. Standing, left to right: Don Logan, Alice B. Donahue, Aaron Jones, Lorene Jones, and Beatrice Par
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The molecular systematics and biogeography of the Burseraceae
No full texttextThis dissertation examines the molecular phylogenetics of the Burseraceae
(Frankincense & Myrrh Family), a pantropically-distributed family of trees consisting of
18 genera and ca. 700 species. Current hypotheses that explain the widespread
distribution of the family by invoking Gondwanan origin and vicariant range expansion
conflict with revised dates of continental rifting, which suggest that division of
Gondwana predates the origin of the majority of angiosperm lineages. We tested this
hypothesis and the monophyly of the pantropical tribes by analyzing nuclear and
chloroplast DNA sequence data from 13 genera and 50 species using parsimony,
maximum-likelihood, Bayesian inference, and a likelihood-based method of lineagedating
using fossil data. Based on surprising results of the family phylogeny, the nonmonophyly
of Bursera was tested further by analyzing additional nuclear and chloroplast
data for more species of Bursera (36 spp.) and Commiphora (29 spp.) with and without
extended outgroup sampling. We conclude that Bursera is not monophyletic and that
previous phylogenetic studies that supported monophyly lacked sufficient outgroups and
were affected by long branch attraction in parsimony analysis. Interspecific hybrids and
stabilized hybrid taxa in Bursera are often reported but rarely tested using molecular
genetic techniques. Genetic reticulation can generate new species and alter existing
species’ ability to respond to natural selection. In order to test for genetic reticulation
among Bursera species, the maternal and paternal parentage of three putative hybrids of
Bursera was tested by comparing nuclear and chloroplast phylogenies. The hybrids were
determined to be B. spinescens X B. simaruba, B. brunea X B. simaruba, and B.
simaruba X B. spinescens (= B. ovata). Two hybrids appear to be F1 progeny and one
appears to be a stabilized or backcross taxon. Instances of allopatric (island) speciation
and hybridization between B. graveolens and the Galapagos endemic, B. malacophylla,
were tested using amplified fragment polymorphism data. Hybrid origins of
morphologically intermediate accessions and population structures of accessions
corresponding to geographic distribution or species designation were not supported.
Weak structure in distance-based analyses and significant AMOVA results suggests
allelic differentiation among morphotypes but do not indicate that B. malacophylla is an
independent lineage.Biological Sciences, School o
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Phylogeny and floral host relationships of Callandrena (Hymenoptera : Andrenidae : Andrena)
No full texttextCallandrena, a subgenus of 80 described species of bees in the genus Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) is shown, via phylogenetic analysis of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data, to be polyphyletic. The characters previously uniting this group have likely arisen by convergent evolution among unrelated lineages that have independently specialized on flowers of the Asteraceae for pollen consumption. At this time, we cannot definitively state whether there are two or three clades of bees formerly ascribed to Callandrena, nor whether one clade may belong to the European subgenus Chrysandrena as has been proposed, so we do not erect a new subgenus of Andrena at this time. The limits of Callandrena sensu stricto are provisionally delimited based on a single morphological character. The phylogenetic relationships of the two groups relative to other Andrena subgenera are discussed in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, Clade B, as defined for Callandrena in Chapter 2, is used to investigate the evolution of pollen host choice. Diet breadth is determined by analysis of pollen loads of at least 20 individual females per species. The choice of host and degree of specificity are then mapped onto the molecular phylogeny to investigate the evolution of these traits. Oligolecty appears to be the ancestral state in Andrena; polylecty has evolved several times; and reversals to oligolecty within these lineages have also occurred. Within the oligolectic lineage studied, host shifts were not uncommon. During the course of this study, a number of undescribed species were collected. Five are described in Chapter 4.Plant Biolog
Reticulate Evolution in Helianthus (Asteraceae); Comparative Chloroplast Genomics of Helianthus and Lactuca
No full textFirst, I want to thank both of my advisors: Randy Linder for his funding for my project and providing me with an RAship for two years, and both Randy Linder and my co-advisor, Beryl Simpson, for all their helpful advise and support during my time at UT. They both have been so willing to help at a moments notice and have been excellent advisors. I also want to thank Bob Jansen who advised my on my fourth chapter and has served as an informal third advisor for my dissertation. My other two committee members, Tom Juenger and David Hillis were also very accommodating throughout the years in scheduling committee meetings and in giving insightful comments and feedback to my research. I am also grateful to Sheri Church and Eric Baack for sending me leaf material and allowing me to use a molecular marker they had developed in the Rieseberg lab. Also Sherri Church performed two plates of sequences for the polyploids and has been very helpful in discussions regarding my project. My time at UT was most influenced by the other graduate students that I interacted with everyday. I chose to attend UT because of the community I sensed between the graduate students and that definitely proved to be true during my time here
CONTRASTING MODES OF EVOLUTION IN TWO GROUPS OF PEREZIA(MUTISIEAE; COMPOSITAE) OF SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
No full textGlacial Migrations of Plants: Island Biogeographical Evidence
No full textScience, Vol. 185 pgs. 698-700Analyses of the floras of the high north Andean habitat islands (paramos) and the Galapagos Islands show that plant species diversity conforms to the MacArthur and Wilson model of island biogeography but that immigration occurred primarily during glacial periods. Modern plant species diversity is more significantly correlated with area and distance measures of the glacial forms of the islands than with similar measures of the present-day islands
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