Publications
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Born in complexity: How the early life environment shapes zebrafish larvae phenotype
Boudeau, J.A., and Alderman, S.L. (2025) Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology – Part A. 310:111930. Abstract: The biotic and abiotic environments are potent drivers of individual plasticity. Zebrafish, a popular research model around the world, has been extensively used for understanding the proximate cause and mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity to environmental enrichment. Despite…
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Detection and potential biomagnification of the neurotoxin β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) and its isomers in Western Lake Erie
A.M. Reside, P.K. Sandhu, J. Solonenka, S.J. Murch, K.S. McCann, N.J. Bernier and F. Laberge (2026). Toxicon 274:109035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2026.109035
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Assessing cognitive performance in nature: brain size and personality correlates of novel object recognition in nest-guarding male pumpkinseed sunfish
K. McAllister, M. Dolan, C.J. Axelrod, B.W. Robinson and F. Laberge (2025). Frontiers in Ethology 4:1683770. doi: 10.3389/fetho.2025.1683770
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Integrated response of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) cardiovascular system to hypoxia acclimation
Manchester*, E.A., Gillis, T.E. (2025) Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (22) jeb251606 68)
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Temperature matters: acute and latent toxicity of diluted bitumen to developing salmon is potentiated by a modest increase in water temperature.
Calik, D.M., Lin, F., Edgar, M., Kennedy, C.J., Johnston, E.F., Farrell, A.P., Gillis, T.E.*, Alderman, S.L.* (2025). Aquatic Toxicology 283:107347. *co-senior authors Abstract: Heavy crude oil, like bitumen, is used globally for plastics, petrochemicals and road surfacing. Canada’s oil sands are the world’s third largest crude oil reserve, and diluted…
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The influence of triiodothyronine on the immune response and extracellular matrix remodeling during zebrafish heart regeneration.
Long, R.B.*, Bullingham, O.M.N.**, Baylis, B., Dutcher, J., Gillis, T.E., (2025). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative
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A physiological model of cardiac fibrosis to maintain function in the Cold. Invited commentary
Gillis, T.E. (2025). Acta Physiologica 241 (6), e70050
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Integrated Response of the Circulatory System | Integrated Responses of the Heart to Acute Changes in Temperature.
Shiels, H.A., Gillis, T.E., Vornanen, M. Gamperl, A.K. Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, Second Edition
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Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Fish Cardiomyocytes.
H.A. Shiels, T.E. Gillis. Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, Second Edition.
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Integrated Response of the Circulatory System |Cardiac thermal acclimation and adaption to extreme temperatures.
Gillis, T.E., Shiels, H.A., Vornanen, M., and Gamperl, A.K. Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, Second Edition.
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Mitochondria from the systemic heart of Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) are insensitive to one hour of anoxia followed by reoxygenation
Yutsyschyna*, M.A., Shaftoe,* J.B., and Gillis, T.E. (2024). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular
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Effects of hemodynamic load on cardiac remodelling in fish and mammals the value of comparative models
Shaftoe*, J.B., and Gillis, T.E. (2024) Journal of Experimental Biology 227 (20), jeb247836
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The integrated cellular response of the zebrafish heart to thermal acclimation
Shaftoe, J.S*., Geddes-McAlister, J., and Gillis, T.E., (2024) Journal of Experimental Biology 227 (20) jeb247522
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Environmental and ecological factors, but not agricultural activity, are associated with brain size in creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus)
P.N. Mahabir, N.J. Bernier and F. Laberge (2025). Environmental Biology of Fishes 108:131-146. doi.org/10.1007/s10641-024-01649-5
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Anoxia Tolerance in the Pacific Hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii).
M.A. Yutsyschyna and T.E. Gillis. Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, Second Edition.
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The influence of food web structure and foraging behaviour on visual system traits in a predatory freshwater fish
M.M. Guzzo, R. O’Connor, L. Novella-Talusan, B. Graham, E. Versteeg, B.C. McMeans, M. Ridgway, K.S. McCann and F. Laberge (2025). Canadian Journal of Zoology Vol. 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2024-0038
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Brain form and foraging behaviour in a stream fish
P.N. Mahabir, C. Billotte, M.K. Gutgesell, M.M. Guzzo, K.S. McCann, N.J. Bernier and F. Laberge (2024). Environmental Biology of Fishes 107:771-784. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-024-01567-6
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Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology 2nd Edition: From Mechanism to Application
Alderman, S.L., and Gillis, T.E. (2024) Academic Press. About: Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, Second Edition is a comprehensive, introductory-level reference work that aims to unite readers in the wonders of this discipline. Chapters highlight where physiological systems and processes are conserved across vertebrate groups, which supports the use of fish as a vertebrate model…
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Development of the hypothalamus-pituitary-interrenal axis
Alderman, S.L. (2024) Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology 2nd edition, Volume 1, pp 233-241. Abstract: The development and maturation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-interrenal axis (HPI axis) determines when a fish will be able to respond to environmental stressors through active and integrative homeostatic regulation. Studies from zebrafish provide a comprehensive overview of HPI axis development.…
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11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 may mediate thestress-specific effects of cortisol on brain cell proliferation in adultzebrafish (Danio rerio)
Flatt, E.E., and Alderman, S.L. (2024) Journal of Experimental Biology. 227:jeb248020. Abstract: Stress-induced increases in cortisol can stimulate or inhibit brain cell proliferation, but the mechanisms behind these opposing effects are unknown. We tested the hypothesis that 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (Hsd11b2), a glucocorticoid-inactivating enzyme expressed in neurogenic regions of the adult…
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Adaptive divergence of seasonal heart plasticity between Canadian and Spanish pumpkinseed sunfish populations
S.M. Procopio, B.M. Studden, C.J. Axelrod, F. Laberge and B.W. Robinson (2024). Journal of Zoology 322:351-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13147
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A revised perspective on the evolution of troponin I and troponin T in vertebrates
Joyce, W., Ripley, D.M., Gillis, T.E., Coward-Black, A., Shiels, H.A., & Hoffmann, F.G., (2023) Genome Biology and Evolution
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Cardiac remodeling caused by cold acclimation is reversible with rewarming in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Jared B. Shaftoe, Elizabeth A. Manchester, Todd E. Gillis, (2023) Cardiac remodeling caused by cold acclimation is reversible with rewarming in zebrafish (Danio rerio) Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
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Lingering effects of legacy industrial pollution on yellow perch of the Detroit River
I. Yin-Liao, P.N. Mahabir, A.T. Fisk, N.J. Bernier and F. Laberge (2023). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 42:2158-2170. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5701