Impairing cardiac oxygen supply in swimming coho salmon compromises their heart function and tolerance to acute warming

A Ekström, B Hendriks, JC Van Wert, MJH Gilbert… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Climatic warming elevates mortality for many salmonid populations during their physically
challenging up-river spawning migrations, yet, the mechanisms underlying the increased …

[HTML][HTML] Ischemia-induced alterations in the electrocardiogram of salmonid fish

LA Zena, A Ekström, D Morgenroth, T McArley, A Gräns… - Aquaculture, 2024 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular diseases such as coronary arteriosclerosis are widespread and constitute
severe health and welfare problems for both farmed and wild salmonid fish. However …

Coronary circulation enhances the aerobic performance of wild Pacific salmon

JC Van Wert, AT Ekström, MJH Gilbert… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Female Pacific salmon often experience higher mortality than males during their once-in-a-
lifetime up-river spawning migration, particularly when exposed to secondary stressors (eg …

Beating the heart failure odds: long-term survival after myocardial ischemia in juvenile rainbow trout

LA Zena, AT Ekström, D Morgenroth… - American Journal …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Salmonid fish include some of the most valued cultured fish species worldwide. Unlike most
other fish, the hearts of salmonids, including Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout, have a well …

Local variation in stress response of juvenile anadromous brown trout, Salmo trutta

M Berry, LA Zena, JAC Roques… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat fragmentation may cut off anadromous salmonids from parts of their potential native
habitat and separate previously connected populations. Understanding the consequences …

Conservation Physiology of Fishes in the Anthropocene

JC Van Wert - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Human activities threaten aquatic ecosystems and their biodiversity to the extent that we are
now living in an era known as the Anthropocene. Fish respond to environmental threats (in …