Publications

defeating diplostomoid dangers in usa catfish aquaculture.	diplostomoid digenean metacercariae have caused widescale mortalities of channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus (rafinesque), at aquaculture farms in louisiana, mississippi and arkansas, usa. originally, based on a tentative diagnosis, the industry considered the primary harmful agent to be an introduced species from europe, bolbophorus confusus (krause, 1914), frequently reported from the american white pelican, pelecanus erythrorhynchos gmelin. our group has now shown, using its 1-2 plus three m ...	2004	15357393
rapid quantitative detection of aeromonas hydrophila strains associated with disease outbreaks in catfish aquaculture.	a new strain of aeromonas hydrophila has been implicated in significant losses in farm-raised catfish. outbreaks attributable to this new strain began in alabama in the summer of 2009 and have spread to arkansas and mississippi in subsequent years. these outbreaks mostly afflicted market-sized fish and resulted in considerable losses in short periods of time. the present research was designed to develop an expeditious diagnostic procedure to detect the new strains of a. hydrophila due to the rap ...	2013	23847227
expression of hepatic metallothionein messenger rna in feral and caged fish species correlates with muscle mercury levels.	metallothioneins (mts) are low-molecular-weight cytosolic proteins that are induced by cellular stress as well as exposure to various heavy metals including mercury. excessive residues of mercury have recently been identified in various fish species of the lower ouachita river system in arkansas. fillets of mature largemouth bass (micropterus salmoides) collected from woodard lake, an ox-bow lake of the ouachita river, possessed muscle residues of mercury ranging from 0.3 to 1.0 ppm (micrograms/ ...	1995	7498068