Publications
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  1. Rowsey, L.E., Kieffer, J.D., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Brook char (Salvelinus fontinalis) show temperature-dependent exercise recovery yet do not exhibit behavioral thermoregulation. Journal of Thermal Biology 123: 103888. Link
  2. Dubiel, J., Scovil, A.M., Speers-Roesch, B., Wiseman, S., de Jourdan, B., and Philibert, D. 2024. Exposure to individual polycyclic aromatic compounds impairs the cardiac performance of American lobster (Homarus americanus). Aquatic Toxicology 269: 106863. Link
  3. Middleton, E.K., Gilbert, M.J.H., Landry, T., Lamarre, S.G., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Environmental variation associated with overwintering elicits marked metabolic plasticity in a temperate salmonid, Salvelinus fontinalis. Journal of Experimental Biology 227: jeb246743.​ Link
  4. Rowsey, L.E., Reeve, C., Savoy, T., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Thermal constraints on exercise and metabolic performance do not explain the use of dormancy as an overwintering strategy in the cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus). Journal of Experimental Biology 227: jeb246741.​ Link
  5. Norin, T., Rowsey, L.E., Houslay, T.M., Reeve, C., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Among-individual variation in thermal plasticity of fish metabolic rates causes profound temperature-dependent variation in trait repeatability, but does not co-vary with behavioural plasticity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379: 20220488. Link
  6. Suominen, E., Speers-Roesch, B., Fadhlaoui, M., Couture, P., Blewett, T., and Cremazy, A. 2023. The effects of winter cold acclimation on acute and chronic cadmium bioaccumulation and toxicity in the banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus). Aquatic Toxicology 262: 106667. Link
  7. Scovil, A.M., Boloori, T., de Jourdan, B.P., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2023. The effect of chemical dispersion and temperature on the metabolic and cardiac responses to physically dispersed crude oil exposure in larval American lobster (Homarus americanus). Marine Pollution Bulletin 191: 114976. Link
  8. Gilbert, M.J.H., Middleton, E.K., Kanayok, K., Harris, L.N., Moore, J.-S., Farrell, A.P., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2022. Rapid cardiac thermal acclimation in wild anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus). Journal of Experimental Biology 225: jeb244055. Link
  9. Scovil, A.M., de Jourdan, B.P., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2022. Intraspecific variation in the sublethal effects of physically and chemically dispersed crude oil on early life stages of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 41: 1967-1976. Link
  10. Reeve, C., Rowsey, L.E., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2022. Inactivity and the passive slowing effect of cold on resting metabolism as the primary drivers of energy savings in overwintering fishes. Journal of Experimental Biology 225: jeb243407. Editor's Choice. Shortlisted for Outstanding Paper of the Year. Link
  11. Jutfelt, F., Norin, T., Asheim, E.R., Rowsey, L.E., Andreassen, A.H., Morgan, R., Clark, T.D., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2021. 'Aerobic scope protection' reduces ectotherm growth under warming. Functional Ecology 35: 1397-1407. Link
  12. Morash, A.J., Speers-Roesch, B., Andrews, S., and Currie, S. 2021. The physiological ups and downs of thermal variability in temperate freshwater ecosystems. Journal of Fish Biology 98: 1524-1535. Link
  13. Norin, T., Sundin, J., Morgan, M., Andreassen, A.H., Amcoff, M., Speers-Roesch, B., Jutfelt, F., Binning, S.A., Roche, D.G., and Clark, T.D. 2021. Predator presence affects activity patterns but not food consumption or growth of juvenile corkwring wrasse (Symphodus melops). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75: 14. Link
  14. Norin, T., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2021. Metabolism. In: The Physiology of Fishes, Fifth Edition (eds. Suzanne Currie and David H. Evans). CRC Press: Boca Raton. pp. 129-141. Link
  15. Ern, R., Chung, D., Frieder, C.A., Madsen, N., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2020. Oxygen-dependence of upper thermal limits in crustaceans from different thermal habitats. Journal of Thermal Biology 93: 102732. Link
  16. Clark, T.D., Raby, G.D., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Jutfelt, F., and Sundin, J. 2020. Reply to: Methods matter in repeating ocean acidification studies. Nature 586: E25-E27. Link
  17. Clark, T.D., Raby, G.D., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Jutfelt, F., and Sundin, J. 2020. Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes. Nature 577: 370-375. Link
  18. Roche, D.G., Amcoff, M., Morgan, R., Sundin, J., Andreassen, A.H., Finnøen, M.H., Lawrence, M.J., Henderson, E., Norin, T., Speers-Roesch, B., Brown, C., Clark, T.D., Bshary, R., Leung, B., Jutfelt, F., and Binning, S.A. 2020. Behavioural lateralization in a detour test is not repeatable in fishes. Animal Behaviour 167: 55-64. Link
  19. Jutfelt, F., Roche, D.G., Clark, T.D., Norin, T., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Amcoff, M., Morgan, R., Andreassen, A.H., and Sundin, J. 2019. Brain cooling marginally increases acute upper thermal tolerance in Atlantic cod. Journal of Experimental Biology 2019: jeb208249. Link
  20. Regan, M.D., Mandic, M., Dhillon, R.S., Lau, G.Y., Farrell, A.P., Schulte, P.M., Seibel, B.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Ultsch, G.R., and Richards, J.G. 2019. Correspondence: Don't throw the fish out with the respirometry water. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb200253. Link
  21. 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. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20181593. Link
  22. ​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. Link
  23. 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. Link
  24. ​Clark, T.D., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., and Sundin, J. 2017. Maximum thermal limits of coral reef damselfishes are size dependent and resilient to near-future ocean acidification. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 3519-3526.​ Link
  25. Speers-Roesch, B., Robinson, J.L., Val, A.L., Almeida-Val, V.M.F., and Driedzic, W.R. 2017. 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. Link
  26. 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. Link
  27. 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. Link
  28. 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. Link
  29. 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. Link
  30. 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. Link
  31. 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. Link
  32. 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. Link
  33. 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. Link
  34. 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. Link
  35. 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. Link
  36. 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. Link
  37. 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. Link
  38. 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. Link
  39. 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. Link
  40. Speers-Roesch, B., and Treberg, J.R. 2010. The unusual energy metabolism of elasmobranch fishes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 155: 417-434. Link
  41. 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. Link
  42. 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. Link
  43. 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. Link
  44. 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. Link
  45. 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. Link
  46. 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. Link
  47. 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. Link
  48. 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. Link