............................................................................................................................... v Sammanfattning ................................................................................................................. vi Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................... vii List o...

...................................................................................................................................... II DECLARATION BY AUTHOR.................................................................................................... IV PUBLICATIONS DURING CANDIDATURE .............................................................................. V PUBLICATIONS INCLUDED...

........................................................................................................................................................ ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................................................................. iii FUNDING ........................................................................................

Acknowledgements I thank my supervisor, Doc. RNDr. Roman Barták, Ph.D., for his patient guidance and for his critical comments that helped me make this thesis better. I thank my parents for their continuous support through the work on this thesis and through all my studies. I hereby declare that I have written this diploma thesis on my own and solely with the use of cited references. I agree wi...

i Acknowledgements I want to thank my supervisor Dr.-Ing. Eike Schallehn for all efforts and time that he spent on this thesis. He gives me many useful advices of how to write and organize my content. I also want to thank M.Sc. Stefan Barthel for giving me the original direction of this thesis. Last but not least, many thanks to my family and friends for their support and encouragement during t...

.......................................................................................................... i Statement of originality .................................................................................. v Acknowledgements......................................................................................... vi Publications arising from thesis .......................................

............................................................................................................................................... i Declaration by Author ...................................................................................................................... iii Publications during Candidature .............................................................................

............................................................................................. 7 Svensk sammanfattning .................................................................... 9 Thesis at a glance ............................................................................. 11 Abbreviations ................................................................................... 12 Definit...

iii CHAPTER ONE. GENERAL INTRODUCTION Background 1 Objectives 16 Justification 17 Thesis Organization 17 Literature Cited 18 Tables and Figures 21 CHAPTER TWO. ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY OF REMNANT, RESTORED, AND RECONSTRUCTED IOWA TALLGRASS PRAIRIE: A COMPARISON Abstract 25 Introduction 26 Methods 28 Results 31 Discussion 36 Conclusions 40 Acknowledgements 40 Literature Cited 42 Tables and Figures 44...

..................................................................................................................... iii CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION ................................................................ 1 BIOLOGY OF AC/DS TRANSPOSON .......................................................................................... 1 DNA STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES .................................