RESEARCH INTERESTS

Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry; Adaptation of Fish to Low Oxygen; Proteomics

GRANT SUPPORT

• Hypoxia-Inducible Gene Expression in Estuarine Fish, National Science Foundation, IBN-0236494.
• Functional Genomics: Interactions among Ecology, Population Biology, and Gene Expression, National Science Foundation, Co-principal investigator with 4 others, OCE-0221879.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Nikinmaa, M. and Rees, B.B. 2005. Oxygen-dependent gene expression in fishes. American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology 288: R1079-1090. doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00626.2004.
• Bosworth, C.A., Chou, C.-W., Cole, R.B., and Rees, B.B. 2005. Protein expression patterns in zebrafish skeletal muscle: initial characterization and the effects of hypoxic exposure. Proteomics, 5:1362-1371.
• Martinez, M.L., Chapman, L.J., Grady, J.M., and Rees, B.B. 2004. Interdemic variation in haematocrit and lactate dehydrogenase in the African cyprinid Barbus neumayeri. Journal of Fish Biology, 65: 1056-1069.
• Love, J.W., and Rees, B.B. 2002. Seasonal differences in hypoxia tolerance in gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis (Fundulidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 63: 103-115.
• Rees, B.B., Bowman, J.A.L., and Schulte, P.M. 2001. Structure and sequence conservation of a putative hypoxia responsive element in the lactate dehydrogenase-B gene in Fundulus. Biological Bulletin, 200: 247-251
• Rees, B.B., Sudradjat, F., and Love, J.W. 2001. Acclimation to hypoxia increases survival time of zebrafish, Danio rerio, during lethal hypoxia. Journal of Experimental Zoology 289: 266-272.
• Virani, N.A., and Rees, B.B. 2000. Oxygen consumption, blood lactate and inter-individual variation in the gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis, during hypoxia and recovery. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 126: 397-405.