TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction (PDF Format)
Management and Conservation
Columbia River white sturgeon investigations downstream of Hugh L. Keenleyside Dam, B.C. McKenzie, JS, L Hildebrand, GR Ash and GJ Birch 9
Dynamics and potential production of white sturgeon in the unimpounded lower Columbia River. DeVore, JD, BW James, CA Tracy and DA Hale 17
Implications of ecosystem collapse on white sturgeon in the Kootenai River, ID, MO and BC. Anders, PJ and DL Richards 27
Kootenai River white sturgeon spawning characteristics and habitat selection post Libby Dam. Paragamian, VL and G Kruse 41
Conservation aquaculture of endangered white sturgeon from the Kootenai River, ID. Anders,
PJ, and RE Westerhof 51
National database for sturgeon and paddlefish broodstock information: a new tool for fisheries management. Kincaid, HL and LJ Mengel 63
Movement and habitat use of paddlefish in the upper Mississippi River and selected tributaries. Zigler, S, M Dewey, B Knights, M Steingraeber
and A Runstrom 71
Habitat suitability index model for lake sturgeon.
Threader, RW 73
Genetics
Population genetics of Atlantic sturgeon based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA. Waldman, J, J Stabile and I Wirgin 77
Inheritance of microsatellite loci in lake sturgeon. Pyatskowit, JD, CC Krueger, HL Kincaid and B May 83
Induction of meiotic gynogenesis and polyploidy in white sturgeon. Van
Eenennaam, AL, JP Van Eenennaam, JF Medrano and SI Doroshov 89
Molecular phylogeny of North American acipenseriformes derived from rRNA gene sequences. Krieger, J, GC
Booton, T Cavender and P Fuerst 95
Aquaculture and Disease
Probing the endocrine control of sturgeon reproduction. Moberg, GP ad SI Doroshov 105
White sturgeon culture at Sierra Aquafarms, Inc. Michaels, J, and A Bunter 113
Spawning and reproductive performance of domestic white sturgeon. Van
Eenennaam, JP, SI Doroshov and GP Moberg 117
Comparative analysis of chemosensory systems in feeding behavior of sturgeons.
Kasumyan, A 123
The effect of density on the manifestaton of white sturgeon iridovirus disease. LaPatra, SE and JM Groff 129
Antigenic and ultrastructural characteristics of epitheliocystis infection in cultured white sturgeon. Groff,
JM, SE LaPatra, ML Anderson, RJ Munn
and BI Osborn 133
Physiology and Pollution
The effects of hypercapnia on blood-gas, acid-base status in the white sturgeon. Crocker, CE and JJ
Cech, Jr 141
Developments of the CNS of sturgeon fishes grown under different ecological conditions. Obukhov, DK 155
Physiological stress responses to handling in paddlefish with freshwater and saline-water recovery. Rahn, AB, BA Barton and H Bollig 157
Effects of chlorinated phenolics and
anti-sapstain agents on the lethality and swimming performance of the early stages of white sturgeon. Bennett, WR and AP Farrell 163
The oogenesis inhibition, steroidogenesis and morphometric studies of the hypothalamo-hypophysal system in the Russian sturgeon exposed to low environmental pH. Zelennikov, OV and KE Fedorov 171
Sex steroid levels in Columbia River white sturgeon. Fitzpatrick, MS, GW
Feist, RL Chitwood, EP Foster and CB Schreck 181