Physiological basis of climate change impacts on North American inland fishes

JE Whitney, R Al-Chokhachy, DB Bunnell, CA Caldwell… - Fisheries, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Global climate change is altering freshwater ecosystems and affecting fish populations and
communities. Underpinning changes in fish distribution and assemblage-level responses to …

The concept of stress in fish

CB Schreck, L Tort - Fish physiology, 2016 - Elsevier
1. Introduction 1.1. What Is Stress? 1.2. Dynamics of the Stress Response and Effects on
Performance 1.3. Contemporary View of the GAS: Eustress versus Distress 1.4. Sensory …

Cardiac oxygen limitation during an acute thermal challenge in the European perch: effects of chronic environmental warming and experimental hyperoxia

A Ekström, J Brijs, TD Clark, A Gräns… - American Journal …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Oxygen supply to the heart has been hypothesized to limit cardiac performance and whole
animal acute thermal tolerance (CTmax) in fish. We tested these hypotheses by continuously …

Temperature Increase Negatively Affects the Fatty Acid Bioconversion Capacity of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Fed a Linseed Oil-Based Diet

J Mellery, F Geay, DR Tocher, P Kestemont, C Debier… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Aquaculture is meant to provide fish rich in omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids
(n-3 LC-PUFA). This objective must be reached despite (1) the necessity to replace the finite …

Limited variability in upper thermal tolerance among pure and hybrid populations of a cold-water fish

ZRR Wells, LH McDonnell, LJ Chapman… - Conservation …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
As climate warming threatens the persistence of many species and populations, it is
important to forecast their responses to warming thermal regimes. Climate warming often …

Relationship between cardiac performance and environment across populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): a common garden experiment implicates local …

KJ Gradil, SR Garner, CC Wilson, AP Farrell… - Evolutionary ecology, 2016 - Springer
Cardiac performance in fishes is predicted to be shaped by environmental factors such as
temperature and river flow rate through natural selection for local adaptations, but few …

Effects of water temperature on gonad development in the cold-water fish, kumgang fat minnow Rhynchocypris kumgangensis

J Im, D Kong, S Ghil - Cytologia, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Water temperature is one of the most important factors in the survival of aquatic organisms.
We investigated the effects of increased water temperature on the physiology of Kumgang …

Identification of a warm‐temperature acclimation‐associated 65‐kDa protein encoded by a temperature‐and infection‐responsive gene in the Kumgang fat minnow …

J Im, G Kwon, D Kong, S Ghil - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Water temperature is one of the most important factors in fish physiology; thus, it is important
to identify genes that respond to changes in water temperature. In this study, we identified a …

How does hybridization affect multiple metrics of fitness in fragmented populations of brook trout under moderate climate warming?

Z Wells - 2016 - spectrum.library.concordia.ca
As a population's genetic makeup is often attributed to the combined fitness of its individuals,
the adoption of deliberate hybridization practices is an area of interest for many hatchery …