Publications

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Behavior and brain size of larval zebrafish exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA)

A.M. Reside, S. Gavarikar, F. Laberge and N.J. Bernier (2023). Toxicological Sciences 193:80-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfad026
Evolutionary divergence in phenotypic plasticity shapes brain size variation between coexisting sunfish ecotypes

C. Axelrod, F. Laberge and B.W. Robinson (2022). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35:1363-1377. http://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14085

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Latent effect of larval rearing environment on post-metamorphic brain growth in an anuran amphibian

H. Peters, F. Laberge and H. Heyland (2022). Zoology 152:126011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2022.126011

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Recovery-from-extinction effects in an anuran amphibian: renewal effect, but no reinstatement

J. Mesich, A. Reynolds, M. Liu and F. Laberge (2022). Animal Cognition 25:359-368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01558-5

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Seasonal variation of behavior and brain size in a freshwater fish

E. Versteeg, T. Fernandes, M. Guzzo, F. Laberge, T. Middel, M. Ridgway and B. McMeans (2021). Ecology and Evolution 11:14950-14959. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8179
Increased brain growth in escaped rainbow trout

F. Laberge, M. Gutgesell and K.S. McCann (pre-print). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.17.448828v1
Transcriptomic signature of extinction learning in the brain of the fire-bellied toad, Bombina orientalis

V. Lewis, F. Laberge and A. Heyland (2021). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 184:107502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107502
Interspecific and intraspecific comparisons reveal the importance of evolutionary context in sunfish brain form divergence

C. Axelrod, F. Laberge and B.W. Robinson (2021). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34:639-652. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13763

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Determinants of the water seeking response in a T-maze in the fire-bellied toad Bombina orientalis

S. Ouellet, A. Lavictoire and F. Laberge (2020). Learning and Motivation 72:101679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2020.101679

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Isolating the effects of ontogenetic niche shift on brain size development using pumpkinseed sunfish ecotypes

C. Axelrod, F. Laberge and B.W. Robinson (2020). Evolution & Development 22:312-322. https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12333

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Temporal profile of brain gene expression after prey catching conditioning in an anuran amphibian

V. Lewis, F. Laberge and A. Heyland (2020). Frontiers in Neuroscience 13:1407. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01407
Temporal profiles of cortisol accumulation and clearance support scale cortisol content as an indicator of chronic stress in fish

F. Laberge, I. Yin-Liao and N.J. Bernier (2019). Conservation Physiology 7:coz052. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coz052
Factors affecting terrestrial movement in the amphibious mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus)

I. Yin-Liao, P.A. Wright and F. Laberge (2019). Journal of Fish Biology 95:1013-1021. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14085

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Relationship between water transparency and walleye (Sander vitreus) muscle glycolytic potential in Northwestern Ontario lakes

N.B. Edmunds, T. Bartley, A. Caskenette, F. Laberge and K.S. McCann (2019). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76:1616-1623. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0556
Intraspecific brain size variation between coexisting sunfish ecotypes

C. Axelrod, F. Laberge and B.W. Robinson (2018). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285:20181971. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1971
Relative heart size and fish foraging ecology in a lake food web

N. Edmunds, K.S. McCann and F. Laberge (2018). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75:1477-1484. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0412
Efferent axonal projections of the habenular complex in the fire-bellied toad Bombina orientalis

F. Laberge and A. Smith (2017). Brain, Behavior and Evolution 90:276-288. https://doi.org/10.1159/000481394

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