Identification of upper thermal thresholds during development in the endangered Nechako white sturgeon with management implications for a regulated river

ML Earhart, TS Blanchard, PR Morrison… - Conservation …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Climate change-induced warming effects are already evident in river ecosystems, and
projected increases in temperature will continue to amplify stress on fish communities. In …

Slow heating rates increase thermal tolerance and alter mRNA HSP expression in juvenile white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)

RJ Penman, W Bugg, B Rost-Komiya, ML Earhart… - Journal of Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Freshwater fish such as white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) are particularly
vulnerable to the effects of anthropogenically induced global warming. Critical thermal …

Elevated temperatures dampen the innate immune capacity of developing lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

WS Bugg, GR Yoon, AN Schoen… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Chronic exposure to high temperatures may leave freshwater fishes vulnerable to
opportunistic pathogens, particularly during early life stages. Lake sturgeon, Acipenser …

Atlantic sturgeon and shortnose sturgeon exhibit highly divergent transcriptomic responses to acute heat stress

FM Penny, WS Bugg, JD Kieffer, KM Jeffries… - … and Physiology Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
In comparison to most modern teleost fishes, sturgeons generally display muted stress
responses. While a muted stress response appears to be ubiquitous across sturgeon …

Tissue-specific transcriptomes reveal potential mechanisms of microbiome heterogeneity in an ancient fish

MJ Thorstensen, AM Weinrauch, WS Bugg… - Database, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) is an ancient, octoploid fish faced with
conservation challenges across its range in North America, but a lack of genomic resources …

Prior thermal acclimation gives White Sturgeon a fin up dealing with low oxygen

AM Dichiera, KD Hannan, GT Kwan… - Conservation …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Assessing how at-risk species respond to co-occurring stressors is critical for predicting
climate change vulnerability. In this study, we characterized how young-of-the-year White …

Understanding the spleen response of Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) dealing with chronic heat stress and Aeromonas hydrophila challenge

A Costábile, G Paredes, M Aversa-Marnai… - … and Physiology Part D …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sturgeon aquaculture has grown in recent years, driven by increasing global demand for its
highly valued products. Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), recognised as one of …

[HTML][HTML] A Natural Hybrid Zone of Swordtails Reveals Molecular Insights Into the Adaptive Genomic Basis of Thermal Tolerance

CM Lai, BCM Stanford, SM Rogers - Molecular Ecology, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A Natural Hybrid Zone of Swordtails Reveals Molecular Insights Into the Adaptive Genomic
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Timing-specific parental effects of ocean warming in a coral reef fish

LC Bonzi, RK Spinks, JM Donelson… - …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Population and species persistence in a rapidly warming world will be determined by an
organism's ability to acclimate to warmer conditions, especially across generations. There is …

Tissue-specific transcriptomes reveal mechanisms of microbiome regulation in an ancient fish

MJ Thorstensen, AM Weinrauch, WS Bugg, KM Jeffries… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) is an ancient, octoploid fish faced with
conservation challenges across its range in North America but a lack of genomic resources …