International Congress on the Biology of Fish

July 21-26, 2002 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver CANADA


Congress 2002: Vancouver Canada

Developments in Understanding Fish Growth
Brian Small, Jeff Silverstein, Don MacKinlay

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(entire document)

Endocrine control of growth: a whole-fish perspective and evolutionary considerations
Dickhoff, Walt

Intracellular integration of multifactorial neuroendocrine regulation of goldfish somatotrope functions
Chang, John P. and Hamid R. Habibi

Disparate mechanisms of growth and osmoregulation in commercially important teleosts
Shepherd, Brian

Patterns of growth and nutrient deposition in brook trout, lake trout and their hybrid, splake as a function of temperature
Gunther, Stephen

Sex ratio and growth strategy of wild and captive Japanese eels
Tzeng WN, Han YS, and He JT

Influence of energy intake on the somatotropic axis in Arctic char
Cameron, Colin, Richard Moccia, and John Leatherland

PACAP related GHRHLP: just how much like GHRH is it?
Small, Brian C.

Thyroid hormones and growth in warm water teleosts: the channel catfish and the red drum
MacKenzie, Duncan

Growth rate and muscle composition of three different groups of farmed Atlantic salmon
Lysfjord, Grete, and Christel Solberg

Evaluating effects of nutrition on fish growth and health with the use of molecular probes
Overturf, Ken et al.

Characterization of myostatin in brook trout
Roberts, Steven

Molecular cloning of growth hormone receptor in masu salmon
Fukada, H., Y Ozaki, S Adachi, K Yamauchi

What we know and don't yet know about growth- modulating roles of IGFBPs in fishes
Kelley, Kevin et al.

Characterization of a 41-KDA insulin-like growth factor binding protein in salmon
Shimizu, Munetaka and Akihiko Hara

Novel Biological Activities of the E-Peptide of Fish Pro-IGF-I
Chen, Tom

The relationship between plasma IGF-I and growth in post-smolt coho salmon: affects of short-term variation in feeding rate and temperature
Beckman, Brian

Development and validation of a TaqMan quantitative RT-PCR assay for salmonid IGF-I mRNA
Pierce, Andy et al.

Functional characterization and physiological regulation of a GLUT4-homologue in salmonids
Planas, Josep V., Capilla

ECOPHYS.FISH: a simulation model of fish growth in time-varying environmental regimes
Neil, William, et al.

Effect of copper sulfate on ions balance and growth in tilapia larvae
Wu, Su Mei et al.

Corner cone topography in the retina of the Atlantic Salmon
Flamarique, Inigo Novales