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  1. Producing a better smolt: Can ‘winter’ treatments combining low temperature and short daylength photoperiods enhance the smolt quality of Atlantic salmon?

    Article • Aquaculture, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  2. Environmental and ecological factors, but not agricultural activity, are associated with brain size in creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus)

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  3. Development of multi-species qPCR assays for a stress transcriptional profiling (STP) Chip to assess the resilience of salmonids to changing environments

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  4. Brain form and foraging behaviour in a stream fish

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  5. Social regulation of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin systems in a wild group-living fish

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  6. Cortisol enhances aerobic metabolism and locomotor performance during the transition to land in an amphibious fish

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  7. Correction: Intergenerational plasticity to cycling high temperature and hypoxia affects offspring stress responsiveness and tolerance in zebrafish

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2024, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  8. The pituitary gland of fishes

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  9. Overview of the endocrine and immune systems

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  10. The hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal axis and corticosteroids

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  11. Intergenerational plasticity to cycling high temperature and hypoxia affects offspring stress responsiveness and tolerance in zebrafish

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, August 2023, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  12. Lingering Effects of Legacy Industrial Pollution on Yellow Perch of the Detroit River

    Article • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, June 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  13. Behavior and brain size of larval zebrafish exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of beta-methylamino-l-alanine

    Article • Toxicological Sciences, March 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  14. Zebrafish parental progeny investment in response to cycling thermal stress and hypoxia: deposition of heat shock proteins but not cortisol

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2022, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  15. Galanin expression varies with parental care and social status in a wild cooperatively breeding fish

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  16. Social status-dependent regulation and function of the somatotropic axis in juvenile rainbow trout

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  17. Neuroendocrine Regulation of Plasma Cortisol Levels During Smoltification and Seawater Acclimation of Atlantic Salmon

    Article • Frontiers in Endocrinology, April 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  18. Severe hypoxia exposure inhibits larval brain development but does not affect the capacity to mount a cortisol stress response in zebrafish

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2022, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  19. Applied aspects of fish endocrinology

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  20. Novel spikey ionocytes are regulated by cortisol in the skin of an amphibious fish

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  21. Rank- and sex-specific differences in the neuroendocrine regulation of glucocorticoids in a wild group-living fish

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  22. The use of non-lethal sampling for transcriptomics to assess the physiological status of wild fishes

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  23. Glucocorticoids do not promote prosociality in a wild group-living fish

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  24. Corticotropin-releasing factor protects against ammonia neurotoxicity in isolated larval zebrafish brains

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2020, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  25. Author Correction: The evolutionary consequences for seawater performance and its hormonal control when anadromous Atlantic salmon become landlocked

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  26. Cross Talk without Cross Tolerance: Effect of Rearing Temperature on the Hypoxia Response of Embryonic Zebrafish

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, July 2019, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  27. Effects of biodensity on the growth, stress physiology, and welfare of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in freshwater

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  28. The evolutionary consequences for seawater performance and its hormonal control when anadromous Atlantic salmon become landlocked

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  29. Temporal profiles of cortisol accumulation and clearance support scale cortisol content as an indicator of chronic stress in fish

    Article • Conservation Physiology, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  30. Corticotropin-releasing factor regulates caspase-3 and may protect developing zebrafish from stress-induced apoptosis

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  31. High environmental ammonia exposure has developmental-stage specific and long-term consequences on the cortisol stress response in zebrafish

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  32. CRF and urocortin 3 protect the heart from hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced apoptosis in zebrafish

    Article • AJP Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, August 2017, American Physiological Society

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  33. Responses of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity related genes to elevated CO 2 levels in the brain of three teleost species

    Article • Biology Letters, August 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  34. Acute embryonic anoxia exposure favours the development of a dominant and aggressive phenotype in adult zebrafish

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  35. Effect of long-term fasting and a subsequent meal on mRNA abundances of hypothalamic appetite regulators, central and peripheral leptin expression and plasma leptin levels in rainbow trout

    Article • Peptides, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  36. Chronic cortisol and the regulation of food intake and the endocrine growth axis in rainbow trout

    Article • June 2015, Bioscientifica

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  37. Effects of early rearing environment and breeding strategy on social interactions and the hormonal response to stressors in juvenile Chinook salmon

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, May 2015, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  38. Phenotypic and QTL allelic associations among embryonic developmental rate, body size, and precocious maturation in male rainbow trout

    Article • Marine Genomics, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  39. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 mediates adaptive developmental plasticity of hypoxia tolerance in zebrafish, Danio rerio

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  40. Hypoxemia-induced leptin secretion: a mechanism for the control of food intake in diseased fish

    Article • April 2014, Bioscientifica

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  41. Individual differences in foraging behavior and cortisol levels in recently emerged brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  42. Angiotensin-II promotes Na+ uptake in larval zebrafish, Danio rerio, in acidic and ion-poor water

    Article • December 2013, Bioscientifica

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  43. Serotonin directly stimulates cortisol secretion from the interrenals in goldfish

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  44. Duress without stress: Cryptobia infection results in HPI axis dysfunction in rainbow trout

    Article • June 2013, Bioscientifica

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  45. Effect of parental mate choice and semi‐natural early rearing environment on the growth performance and seawater tolerance of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  46. Appetite-suppressing effects and interactions of centrally administered corticotropin-releasing factor, urotensin I and serotonin in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  47. Recombinant human leptin attenuates stress axis activity in common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.)

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Mark O. Huising, Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  48. Differential effects of chronic hypoxia and feed restriction on the expression of leptin and its receptor, food intake regulation and the endocrine stress response in common carp

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, July 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  49. Central and peripheral glucocorticoid receptors are involved in the plasma cortisol response to an acute stressor in rainbow trout

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  50. Effects of chronic dietary salt loading on the renin angiotensin and adrenergic systems of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

    Article • AJP Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, September 2011, American Physiological Society

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  51. Ontogeny of the corticotropin-releasing factor system in rainbow trout and differential effects of hypoxia on the endocrine and cellular stress responses during development

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  52. Differential effects of 17β-estradiol and 11-ketotestosterone on the endocrine stress response in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  53. Stress and Reproduction

    Article • January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  54. Stress and Reproduction

    Article • January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  55. Stirring Up New Ideas About the Regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Interrenal Axis in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Article • Zebrafish, December 2010, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  56. Behavioural Interactions and Hormones in Naturally and Hatchery‐Spawned Chinook Salmon

    Article • Ethology, October 2010, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  57. Inhibition of glutamine synthetase during ammonia exposure in rainbow trout indicates a high reserve capacity to prevent brain ammonia toxicity

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, July 2010, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  58. Ontogeny of the corticotropin-releasing factor system in zebrafish

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  59. Two divergent leptin paralogues in zebrafish (Danio rerio) that originate early in teleostean evolution

    Article • March 2009, Bioscientifica

    Professor Mark O. Huising, Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  60. Chapter 6 Regulation And Contribution Of The Corticotropic, Melanotropic And Thyrotropic Axes To The Stress Response In Fishes

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Peter H.M. Klaren, Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  61. Juvenile growth and aggression in diploid and triploid Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum)

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, July 2008, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  62. Distribution and Regional Stressor‐Induced Regulation of Corticotrophin‐Releasing Factor Binding Protein in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

    Article • Journal of Neuroendocrinology, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  63. Heads or tails? Stressor-specific expression of corticotropin-releasing factor and urotensin I in the preoptic area and caudal neurosecretory system of rainbow trout

    Article • Journal of Endocrinology, December 2007, Bioscientifica

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  64. Induction of four glutamine synthetase genes in brain of rainbow trout in response to elevated environmental ammonia

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, August 2007, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  65. New insights into urotensin endocrinology: From fish to man

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, August 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  66. Localization of corticotropin‐releasing factor, urotensin I, and CRF‐binding protein gene expression in the brain of the zebrafish, Danio rerio

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, April 2007, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  67. The corticotropin-releasing factor system as a mediator of the appetite-suppressing effects of stress in fish

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, March 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  68. CRF-related peptides contribute to stress response and regulation of appetite in hypoxic rainbow trout

    Article • AJP Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, October 2005, American Physiological Society

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  69. Differential Increase in Forebrain and Caudal Neurosecretory System Corticotropin-Releasing Factor and Urotensin I Gene Expression Associated with Seawater Transfer in Rainbow Trout

    Article • Endocrinology, September 2005, Endocrine Society

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  70. Appetite-suppressing effects of ammonia exposure in rainbow trout associated with regional and temporal activation of brain monoaminergic and CRF systems

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2005, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  71. Neuropeptides and the control of food intake in fish

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, May 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Jose Miguel Cerda-Reverter, Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  72. Expression of Four Glutamine Synthetase Genes in the Early Stages of Development of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Relationship to Nitrogen Excretion

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, March 2005, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  73. Limited extracellular but complete intracellular acid-base regulation during short-term environmental hypercapnia in the armoured catfish,Liposarcus pardalis

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2004, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  74. Oxygen and carbon dioxide transport during sustained exercise in diploid and triploid chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, September 2004, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  75. Transition in organ function during the evolution of air-breathing;insights from Arapaima gigas, an obligate air-breathing teleost from the Amazon

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, April 2004, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  76. Effect of Cryptobia salmositica-induced anorexia on feeding behavior and immune response in juvenile rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

    Article • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, January 2004, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  77. Effects of cortisol on food intake, growth, and forebrain neuropeptide Y and corticotropin-releasing factor gene expression in goldfish

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  78. Extracellular Carbonic Anhydrase in the Dogfish,Squalus acanthias: A Role in CO2Excretion

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, July 2001, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  79. The hypothalamic–pituitary–interrenal axis and the control of food intake in teleost fish

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, June 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  80. Appetite-Suppressing Effects of Urotensin I and Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone in Goldfish <i>(Carassius auratus)</i>

    Article • Neuroendocrinology, January 2001, Karger Publishers

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  81. Brain regulation of feeding behavior and food intake in fish

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, August 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  82. Differential Expression of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) and Urotensin I Precursor Genes, and Evidence of CRF Gene Expression Regulated by Cortisol in Goldfish Brain

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, December 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  83. Cardiovascular control via angiotensin II and circulating catecholamines in the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, July 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yoshio Takei, Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  84. The acute humoral adrenergic stress response in fish: facts and fiction

    Article • Aquaculture, July 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  85. Blood pressure regulation during hypotension in two teleost species: differential involvement of the renin–angiotensin and adrenergic systems

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 1999, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  86. Does Gill Boundary Layer Carbonic Anhydrase Contribute to Carbon Dioxide Excretion: a Comparison Between Dogfish (Squalus Acanthias) and Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, March 1999, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  87. Mediation of humoral catecholamine secretion by the renin-angiotensin system in hypotensive rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

    Article • Journal of Endocrinology, March 1999, Bioscientifica

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  88. Article • Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yoshio Takei, Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  89. Cardiovascular effects of angiotensin-II-mediated adrenaline release in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 1999, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  90. The adrenergic stress response in fish: control of catecholamine storage and release

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology, July 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  91. Carbon dioxide anaesthesia in rainbow trout: effects of hypercapnic level and stress on induction and recovery from anaesthetic treatment,

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, March 1998, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  92. The Control of Catecholamine Secretion in Hagfishes

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  93. Angiotensins stimulate catecholamine release from the chromaffin tissue of the rainbow trout

    Article • AJP Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, July 1997, American Physiological Society

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  94. Control of Catecholamine and Serotonin Release from the Chromaffin Tissue of the Atlantic Hagfish

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 1996, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  95. Chapter 18 Estivation: Mechanisms and control of metabolic suppression

    Article • January 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  96. Differences in Measurements of Smolt Development Between Wild and Hatchery-Reared Juvenile Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Before and After Saltwater Exposure

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, October 1994, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  97. Repeat sexual maturation of precocious male chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) transferred to seawater

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, April 1993, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier

  98. Genetic, Environmental, and Interaction Effects on Growth and Stress Response of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Fry

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, February 1993, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Nicholas J. Bernier