Chris M. Wood

Our lab studies the basic mechanisms by which ions, nutrients, respiratory gases metabolic wastes, and acid-base equivalents are transported across environmental and internal surfaces in fish and crustaceans, and how these processes are impacted by environmental stressors. In our applied research program, the stressors of interest are waterborne and dietary metals, and our goal is to use data on physiological responses to develop models that can be used to generate more protective and cost-effective environmental regulations for metals. While our starting point is always basic mechanistic physiology, we use tools of molecular biology, proteomics, cell biology, organismic physiology, behavioral analysis, field studies, geochemistry, and modeling to address these questions.

2005 and In Press

Bucking, C. and Wood, C.M. (2005). Renal regulation of plasma glucose in the freshwater rainbow trout. In Press

Glover, C.N. and Wood, C.M. (2005). The disruption of Daphnia magna sodium metabolism by humic substances: mechanisms of action and effect of humic substance source. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. In Press

Glover, C.N. and Wood, C.M. (2005). Accumulation and elimination of silver in Daphnia magna and the effect of natural organic matter. Aquat. Toxicol. In Press.

Glover, C.N., Sharma, S. and Wood, C.M. (2005). Heterogeneity in physicochemical properties explain differences in silver toxicity amelioration by natural organic matter to Daphnia magna. Environ. Toxicol. And Chem. In Press.

Glover, C.N., Playle, R.C. and Wood, C.M. (2005). Heterogeneity of natural organic matter (NOM) amelioration of silver toxicity to Daphnia magna : effect of NOM source and silver-NOM equilibration time. Environ. Toxicol. And Chem. In Press.

Smith, R.W., Wood, C.M., Cash, P., Diao, L and Pärt, P. (2005). Apolipoprotein A1 is a significant determinant of epithelial integrity in rainbow trout gill cell cultures: a study in functional proteomics. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta- Proteins and Proteomics. In Press

Sloman, K., McDonald, D.M., Barimo, J.F., Lepage, O., Winberg, S., Wood, C.M. and Walsh, P.J. (2005). Does pulsatile urea excretion serve as a social signal in the gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta? Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. In Press

Bianchini, A., Rouleau, C., and Wood, C.M. (2005). Silver accumulation in Daphnia magna in the presence of reactive sulphide. Aquat. Toxicol. In Press

Kjoss, V.A., Kamunde, C.N., Niyogi, S., Grosell, M., and Wood, C.M.  (2005).  Dietary Na does not reduce dietary Cu uptake by juvenile rainbow trout.   J. Fish Biol.  66: 468-484.

P.L., Chow-Fraser, P., Ranville, J.F., Ross, P.E., and Wood, C.M. (2005). Daphnia need to be gut cleared too: The effect of exposure to and ingestion of metal-contaminated sediment on the gut clearance patterns of D. magna. Aquat. Toxicol. 71: 143 -154.

Glover, C.N. and Wood, C.M. (2005) Physiological characterization of a pH- and calcium dependent sodium uptake mechanism in the freshwater crustacean, Daphnia magna. J. Exp. Biol. In Press