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The Life History of Damaraland Mole-rats Fukomys damarensis: Growth, Ageing and Behaviour
(2018-11-01)The social mole-rats have often been typecast as extreme examples of mammalian sociality. With their pronounced reproductive skew, status-related contrasts in lifespan and morphology, and the suggestion of a division of ... -
The sustainability of crayfish harvesting in Madagascar
(2004-09-01)Madagascar’s freshwater crayfish, belonging to the endemic genus Astacoides, are harvested throughout their range in the eastern highlands of the country. They provide an important source of protein and revenue to local ... -
Human population history and its interplay with natural selection
(2019-03-30)The complex demographic changes that underlie the expansion of anatomically modern humans out of Africa have important consequences on the dynamics of natural selection and our ability to detect it. In this thesis, I ... -
Visualisation and analysis of patterns in serological data using "antibody landscapes"
In this thesis I develop and implement “antibody landscapes”, a method to profile immunity against a pathogen as a function of antigenic differences between a range of strains. Theoretically applicable to any antigenically ...
