Publications
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  1. Speers-Roesch, B., Norin, T., and Driedzic, W.R. 2018. The benefit of being still: energy savings during winter dormancy in fish come from inactivity and the cold, not from metabolic rate depression. Proc. R. Soc. B 285: 20181593.
  2. ​Jutfelt, F., Norin, T., Ern, R., Overgaard, J., Wang, T., McKenzie, D.J., Lefevre, S., Nilsson, G.E., Metcalfe, N.B., Hickey, A.J.R., Brijs, J., Speers-Roesch, B., Roche, D.G., Gamperl, A.K., Raby, G.D., Morgan, R., Esbaugh, A.J., Grans, A., Axelsson, M., Ekström, A., Sandblom, E., Binning, S.A., Hicks, J.W., Seebacher, F., Jorgensen, C., Killen, S.S., Schulte, P.M., and Clark, T.D. 2018. Comment on Portner et al.: Oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: blurring ecology and physiology. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb169615.
  3. Yancey, P.H., Speers-Roesch, B., Majewski, A., Atchison, S., Reist, J.D., and Treberg, J.R. 2018. Osmolyte adjustments as a pressure adaptation in deep-sea chondrichthyan fishes: An intraspecific test in Arctic skates (Amblyraja hyperborea) along a depth gradient. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 91: 788-796.
  4. ​Clark, T.D., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., and Sundin, J. 2017. Upper thermal limits of coral reef damselfishes are size-dependent and resilient to near-future ocean acidification. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 3519-3526.
  5. Speers-Roesch, B., Callaghan, N.I., MacCormack, T.J., Lamarre, S.G., Sykes, A., and Driedzic, W.R. 2016. Enzymatic capacities of metabolic fuel use in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and responses to food deprivation: insight into the metabolic organization and starvation survival strategy of cephalopods. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 186: 711-725.
  6. Lamarre, S.G., MacCormack, T.J., Sykes, A., Speers-Roesch, B., Callaghan, N.I., and Driedzic, W.R. 2016. Metabolic rate and rates of protein turnover in food deprived cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 310: R1160-R1168. 
  7. Speers-Roesch, B., and Norin, T. 2016. Ecological significance of thermal tolerance and performance in fishes: new insights from integrating field and laboratory approaches. Functional Ecology 30: 842-844. Invited commentary. 
  8. Treberg, J.R., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2016. Does the physiology of chondrichthyan fishes constrain their distribution in the deep-sea? Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 615-625. Invited commentary.
  9. Clark, T.D., Binning, S.A., Raby, G.D., Speers-Roesch, B., Sundin, J., Jutfelt, F., and Roche, D.G. 2016. Scientific misconduct: the elephant in the lab. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 899-900. 
  10. Speers-Roesch, B., Robinson, J.L., Val, A.L., Almeida-Val, V.M.F., and Driedzic, W.R. 2016. Interspecific dietary diversity has little influence on pathways of glucose metabolism in liver and heart of piranhas and pacus (family Serrasalmidae). Hydrobiologia 789: 107-121. Invited paper.
  11. Regan, M.D., Dhillon, R.S., Toews, D.P.L., Speers-Roesch, B., Sackville, M.A., Pinto, S., Bystriansky, J.S., and Scott, G.R. 2015. Biochemical correlates of aggressive behaviour in the Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens. Journal of Zoology 297: 99-107. Winner of Journal of Zoology's 2015 'Paper of the Year' Award.​
  12. Pelster, B., Wood, C.M., Speers-Roesch, B., Driedzic, W.R., Almeida-Val, V., and Val, A. 2015. Gut transport characteristics in herbivorous and carnivorous serrasalmid fish from ion-poor Rio Negro water. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 185: 225-241.
  13. Speers-Roesch, B., Mandic, M., Groom, D.J.E., and Richards, J.G. 2013. Critical oxygen tensions as predictors of hypoxia tolerance and tissue metabolic responses during hypoxia exposure in fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 449: 239-249.
  14. Speers-Roesch, B., Lague, S.L., Farrell, A.P., and Richards, J.G. 2013. Effects of fatty acid provision during severe hypoxia on routine and maximal performance of the in situ tilapia heart. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 773-785.
  15. Mandic, M., Speers-Roesch, B., and Richards, J.G. 2013. Hypoxia tolerance in sculpins is associated with high anaerobic enzyme activity in brain, but not in liver or muscle. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 92-105. 
  16. Lague, S.L., Speers-Roesch, B., Richards, J.G., and Farrell, A.P. 2012. Exceptional cardiac anoxia tolerance in tilapia (Oreochromis hybrid). Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 1354-1365. 
  17. Hickey, A.J.R., Renshaw, G.M.C., Speers-Roesch, B., Richards, J.G., Wang, Y., Farrell, A.P., and Brauner, C.J. 2012. A radical approach to beating hypoxia: Depressed free radical release from heart fibres of the hypoxia-tolerant epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium ocellatum). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 182: 91-100. 
  18. Speers-Roesch, B., Brauner, C.J., Farrell, A.P., Hickey, A.J.R., Renshaw, G.M.C., Wang, Y.S., and Richards, J.G. 2012. Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. II. Cardiovascular function and tissue metabolic responses during progressive and relative hypoxia exposures. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 103-114. 
  19. Speers-Roesch, B., Richards, J.G., Brauner, C.J., Farrell, A.P., Hickey, A.J.R., Wang, Y.S., and Renshaw, G.M.C. 2012. Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. I. Critical oxygen tension as a measure of blood oxygen transport during hypoxia exposure. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 93-102. 
  20. Speers-Roesch, B., and Treberg, J.R. 2010. The unusual energy metabolism of elasmobranch fishes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 155: 417-434. Invited review. 
  21. Speers-Roesch, B., Sandblom, E., Lau, G.Y., Farrell, A.P., and Richards, J.G. 2010. Effects of environmental hypoxia on cardiac energy metabolism and performance in tilapia. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 298: R104-R119. 
  22. Speers-Roesch, B., Ip, Y.K., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2008. Plasma non-esterified fatty acids of elasmobranchs: comparisons of temperate and tropical species and effects of environmental salinity. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 149: 209-216. 
  23. Semeniuk, C.A., Speers-Roesch, B., and Rothley, K.D. 2007. Using fatty-acid profile analysis as an ecologic indicator in the management of tourist impacts on marine wildlife: a case of stingray-feeding in the Caribbean. Environmental Management 40: 665-677. 
  24. Speers-Roesch, B., Robinson, J.W., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2006. Metabolic organization of the spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes): insight into the evolution of energy metabolism in the chondrichthyan fishes. Journal of Experimental Zoology 305A: 631-644. 
  25. Speers-Roesch, B., Ip, Y.K., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2006. Metabolic organization of freshwater, euryhaline, and marine elasmobranchs: implications for the evolution of energy metabolism in sharks and rays. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 2495-2508. 
  26. Treberg, J.R., Speers-Roesch, B., Piermarini, P., Ip, Y.K., Ballantyne, J.S., and Driedzic, W.R. 2006. The accumulation of methylamine counteracting solutes in elasmobranchs with differing levels of urea: comparison of marine and freshwater species. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 860-870. Featured in Inside JEB. 
  27. Speers-Roesch, B., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2005. Activities of antioxidant enzymes and cytochrome c oxidase in liver of Arctic and temperate teleosts. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 140: 487-494. 
  28. Speers-Roesch, B., Lingwood, D., and Stevens, E.D. 2004. Effects of temperature and hydrostatic pressure on the routine oxygen uptake of bloater (Coregonus hoyi). Journal of Great Lakes Research 30: 70-81.