The utility of transcriptomics in fish conservation

RE Connon, KM Jeffries… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
There is growing recognition of the need to understand the mechanisms underlying
organismal resilience (ie tolerance, acclimatization) to environmental change to support the …

The use of non-lethal sampling for transcriptomics to assess the physiological status of wild fishes

KM Jeffries, A Teffer, S Michaleski, NJ Bernier… - … and Physiology Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fishes respond to different abiotic and biotic stressors through changes in gene expression
as a part of an integrated physiological response. Transcriptomics approaches have been …

Lessons from California's 2012–2016 drought

J Lund, J Medellin-Azuara, J Durand… - Journal of Water …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
California's 5-year drought has ended, even as its aftermath lingers. From 2012–2016 much
or all of California was under severe drought conditions, with greatly diminished …

Effect of water quality variation on fish assemblages in an anthropogenically impacted tropical estuary, Colombian Pacific

G Duque, DE Gamboa-García, A Molina… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
In tropical estuaries, fish diversity varies spatially and temporally due to behavioral
processes such as reproductive migrations, predator avoidance, and foraging, which are …

Reproduction, ontogeny and recruitment

ED Houde, KW Able, NA Strydom… - Fish and fisheries in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews and synthesises knowledge on reproduction and recruitment in estuary‐
dependent and estuary‐associated fishes. Resident and migrating species (anadromous …

Long-term pharmaceutical contamination and temperature stress disrupt fish behavior

SC Wiles, MG Bertram, JM Martin, H Tan… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Natural environments are subject to a range of anthropogenic stressors, with pharmaceutical
pollution being among the fastest-growing agents of global change. However, despite wild …

Transcriptomic responses to environmental change in fishes: insights from RNA sequencing

RA Oomen, JA Hutchings - Facets, 2017 - facetsjournal.com
The need to better understand how plasticity and evolution affect organismal responses to
environmental variability is paramount in the face of global climate change. The potential for …

Physiological responses to acute warming at the agitation temperature in a temperate shark

IA Bouyoucos, AM Weinrauch… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Thermal tolerance and associated mechanisms are often tested via the critical thermal
maximum (CT max). The agitation temperature is a recently described thermal limit in fishes …

[PDF][PDF] Is extinction inevitable for Delta Smelt and Longfin Smelt? An opinion and recommendations for recovery

J Hobbs, PB Moyle, N Fangue… - San Francisco Estuary …, 2017 - escholarship.org
“The basic lesson from the collapse of Delta Smelt is that to save species, ecosystembased
actions have to be taken quickly to halt irreversible change, or at least to guide inevitable …

Sub‐lethal temperature thresholds indicate acclimation and physiological limits in brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis

SM Morrison, TE Mackey, T Durhack… - Journal of Fish …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The upper thermal tolerance of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis was estimated using critical
thermal maxima (CTmax) experiments on fish acclimated to temperatures that span the …