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Major research themes explored in my lab are related to understanding the effects of environmental pollutants on fish and freshwater mussels as sentinels of ecosystem health. Current areas of research include: 1) endocrine disruption in fish exposed to agrochemicals, 2) factors and effects associated with intersex in fish, 3) effects of pollutants on early life stages of freshwater mussels, and 4) aquaponics.
Eberhard, M.L., M.J. Yabsley, H. Zirimwabagabo, H. Bishop, C.A. Cleveland, J.C. Maerz, R.B. Bringolf, and E. Ruiz-Tiben. 2016. Possible role of fish and frogs as paratenic hosts of Dracunculus medinensis, Chad. Emerging and Infectious Diseases 22:1428-1430.
Fritts, M.W., J.A. DeBoer, A.K. Fritts, K.A. Kellock, R.B. Bringolf, and A.F. Casper. 2016. Survey of intersex Largemouth Bass from the Upper Illinois River Waterway, USA. American Midland Naturalist 176:158-165.
Parr, R.T., C.A. Jennings, N.D. Denslow, K. Kroll, and R.B. Bringolf. 2016. Evaluation of reproductive status in Atlantic Tripletail by traditional and nonlethal approaches. Coastal and Marine Fisheries 8:16-22.
Morrison, S., K. Sieve, R. Ratajczak, R. Bringolf, and J. Belden. 2016. Simultaneous extraction and cleanup of high-lipid fish organs for multiple legacy and emerging organic contaminants using QuEChERS. Talanta 146: 16-22.
Fritts, A.K., J.T. Peterson, J.M. Wisniewski and R.B. Bringolf. 2015. Non-lethal assessment of freshwater mussel physiological response to changes in environmental factors. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 72: 1460-1468.
Fritts, A.K., J.T. Peterson, P.D. Hazelton and R.B. Bringolf. 2015. Evaluation of methods for assessing physiological biomarkers of stress in freshwater mussels. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 72: 1450-1459.
Bringolf, R.B., B.J. Irwin, K.A. Kellock. 2015. Factors associated with intersex Largemouth Bass from impoundments in the Southeastern U.S. Pages 311 – 318 in M.D. Tringali, J.M. Long, T.W. Birdsong, and M.S. Allen, editors. Black bass diversity: multidisciplinary science for conservation. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 82, Bethesda, Maryland.
Fritts, A.K. and R.B. Bringolf. 2014. New host species confirmed for four federally endangered freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Basin. Walkerana: Journal of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society 17:51-59.
Leonard, J.A., W.G. Cope, M.C. Barnhart, and R.B. Bringolf. 2014. Metabolomic, behavorial, and reproductive effects of the aromatase inhibitor fadrazole hydrochloride on the unionid mussel Lampsilis fasciola. General and Comparative Endocrinology 206:213-226.
Kellock, K.A., B.E. Trushel, P.C. Ely, C.A. Jennings, R.B. Bringolf. 2014. Survey of intersex Largemouth Bass from impoundments in Georgia, USA. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143(3):565-572.
Hazelton, P.D., B. Du, S.P. Haddad, A.K. Fritts, C.K. Chambliss, B.W. Brooks, R.B. Bringolf. 2014. Chronic fluoxetine exposure alters movement and burrowing in adult freshwater mussels. Aquatic Toxicology. 151:27-35.
Leonard, J.A., W.G. Cope, M.C. Barnhart, R.B. Bringolf. 2014. Metabolomic, behavioral, and reproductive effects of the synthetic estrogen 17 α-ethinylestradiol on the unionid mussel Lampsilis fasciola. Aquatic Toxicology 150:103-116.
Fritts, A.K., M.C. Barnhart, M. Bradley, N. Liu, W.G. Cope, E. Hammer, R.B. Bringolf. 2014. Assessment of toxicity test endpoints for freshwater mussel larvae (glochidia). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 33(1):199-207.
Fritts, M.W., A.K Fritts, S.A. Carleton, and R.B. Bringolf. 2013. Shifts in stable isotope signatures of freshwater mussel glochidia during attachment to host fish. Journal of Molluscan Studies 79(2): 163-167.
Hazelton, P.D., W.G. Cope, S. Mosher, T.J. Pandolfo, J.B. Belden, M.C. Barnhart, and R.B. Bringolf. 2013. Effects of fluoxetine on freshwater mussels. Science of the Total Environment 445-446: 94-100.
Baird, S., J. A.W. Garrison, J. Jones, J. Avants, R.B. Bringolf, and M.C. Black. 2013. Enantioselective toxicity and bioaccumulation of fipronil in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) following water and sediment exposures. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 32:222-227.
Johnson, J.A., J.M. Wisniewski, A.K. Fritts, and R.B. Bringolf. 2012. Host identification and glochidia morphology of freshwater mussels from the Altamaha River Basin. Southeastern Naturalist 11(4):733-746.
Fritts, A.K., M.W. Fritts, D.L. Peterson, and R.B. Bringolf. 2012. Critical linkage of imperiled species: Gulf sturgeon as host for purple bankclimber mussels. Freshwater Science 31(4):1223-1232.
Hazelton, P.D., W.G. Cope, S. Mosher, T.J. Pandolfo, M.J. Strynar, M.C. Barnhart, and R.B. Bringolf. 2012. Toxicity of perfluoralkyl acids to freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in acute and partial life-cycle tests. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 31:1611-1620.
Kellock, K. and R.B. Bringolf. 2011. Assessment of endocrine disruption in fish and estrogenic potency of waters in Georgia. Proceedings of the 2011 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, GA, April 11–13, 2011.
Pandolfo, T.J., W.G. Cope, C. Arellano, R.B. Bringolf, M.C. Barnhart, and E. Hammer. 2010. Thermal tolerances of early life stages of freshwater mussels. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29:959-969.
Bringolf, R.B., R.M. Heltsley, D. Shea, and T.J. Newton, and W.G. Cope. 2010. Environmental occurrence and reproductive effects of the pharmaceutical fluoxetine in native freshwater mussels. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 29:1311-1318.
Eads, C.B., R.B. Bringolf, R.D. Greiner, A.E. Bogan, and J.F. Levine. 2010. Fish host identification of the Carolina Heelsplitter (Lasmigona decorata), a federally endangered freshwater mussel. American Malacological Bulletin 28:1-8.