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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Research in evolutionary biology is driven by curiosity about the evolution of complex organisms. Their origin and maintenance depend on two conflicting properties ‐ evolvability and robustness. Evolvability is the ability ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Plague is a disease of rodents and is transmitted through their fleas. Humans are only occasionally infected. Direct human-to-human transmission through droplets happens rarely. The low plague activity in humans nowadays ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Over the past ten years the massive use of genomic and transcriptomic technologies has revealed groundbreaking information about the genetic drivers of cancer in general. The knowledge of these drivers is not only fundamental ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
This thesis explores how different aspects of life history strategies in common marine planktonic organisms change when they perceive a chemical cue of predation risk. Predators can have dramatic effects on prey organisms ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
The genomic landscape of a hybrid species is marked by alternating regions of parental inheritance and areas of genomic constraint which form reproductive barriers.
A PhD candidate at the University of Oslo has explored ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Mennesker har i lang tid forvaltet hjortevilt for ulike formål som mat, troféer eller bestandsregulering. Forvaltningen foregår gjennom ulike former for selektiv jakt. Pga. alders- og kjønnsspesifikke kvoter og jegernes ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Skeletal muscle is a heterogeneous tissue comprised of a variety of different cell types, including the multinucleated skeletal myofiber. Although myofibers are post-mitotic, they hold a remarkable ability to adapt new ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Nanoparticles are small particles in the nanometer size range, undetectable by the human eye. Nowadays nanoparticles are investigated as carriers of therapeutic drugs to increase treatment effect and minimize side effects ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Many African wildlife species are at risk of extinction as a result of habitat loss and fragmentation associated with human influence. Among these is the endangered antelope, mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni), endemic ...