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Whitney Genetics Lab Publications and Reports
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2025
2025 Invasive Carp eDNA Monitoring Program Protocols View Here
DeHaan, P., Stefanski, J., Brino, E., Wils, J., Cross, B., Pelekai, K., Byford, G., and Plumb, M. 2025 Preliminary Assessment of Pacific Lamprey Environmental DNA Samples from Western Washington Rivers. View Report Here
2024
DeHaan, P., Hannah, A., Bloomfield, J., Mauldin, L., and Kao, Y. C. 2024 Refining the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) as a method to detect presence of the endangered Topeka Shiner (Notropis topeka) View Report Here
Johnson, A., DeHaan, P., Loppnow, G., Zankle, K., and Fritts, M. 2024 Upper Mississippi River Ichthyoplankton Sample qPCR Screening for Invasive Carp View Report Here
Johnson, A., Stefanski, J., DeHaan, P., Sardina, K., and Fillmore, B. 2024 Identifying the Status of Invasive Carp Recruitment in the Red River and its Tributaries below Denison Dam in Oklahoma and Texas View Report Here
Klymus, K. E., J. D. Baker, C. L. Abbott, R. J. Brown, J. M. Craine, Z. Gold, M. E. Hunter, M. D. Johnson, D. N. Jones, M. J. Jungbluth, S. P. Jungbluth, Y. Lor, A. P. Maloy, C. M. Merkes, R. Noble, N. V. Patin, A. J. Sepulvada, S. F. Spear, J. A. Steele, M. Takahashi, A. W. Watts, S. Theroux 2024. The MIEM Guidelines: Minimum Information For Reporting of Environmental Metabarcoding Data. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 8: e128689.
Rees, C., Stefanski, J., Johnson, A. DeHaan, P., Frohnauer, N., Hannah, A., Fischer, J., and Horton, M. 2024 Field validation of an eDNA early detection and monitoring tool for Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) in Arkansas View Report Here
2023
Boone M. La Hood, Tyler C. Thomsen, Allison W. Lenaerts, Madeline G. Tomczak, Emily A. Szott, Zebadiah Woiak, Kyle M. Von Ruden, Katherine D. Bockrath, Kevin S. Irons, James T. Lamer, Light Trapping Reveals Multiple Bigheaded Carp Spawns Upstream of Lock and Dam 19 in the Upper Mississippi River, North American Journal of Fisheries Management 43:81-91, 2023
Cupp, A., Erickson, R., Gaikowski, M., Leis, E., Luoma, J., Nelson, R., Smerud, J., Standish, I., Tuttle-Lau, M., & S. Wolfe. 2023. Effectiveness of Aquaflor (florfenicol) and Terramycin 200 for Fish (oxytetracycline) administered in feed to control Lake Herring (Coregonus artedi) mortality associated with Aeromonas salmonicida infections. North American Journal of Aquaculture 85(2). doi: 10.1002/naaq.10283.
DeHaan, P., Hannah, A., Von Ruden, K., Young, R., Bowen, A., Mize, E. and Koenig, J. 2023 Field optimization of eDNA markers as an early detection tool for Grass Carp in the Sandusky River, OH. View Report Here
Tuttle-Lau, M. T., Leis, E. M., Cupp, A. R., Peterman, L. L., Hebert, J. L., Erickson, R. A., Schleis, S. M., & Gaikowski, M. P. (2023). Efficacy of hydrogen peroxide to reduce Gyrodactylus species infestation density on four fish species. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health.
2022
Bockrath, K., Grote, A., Benson, A. M., Mize, E., Olsen, J., Russ, O., Tuttle-Lau, M., Maloy, A., Rees, C., Merry, J., and Vasquez, J. 2022 Environmental DNA (eDNA) Best Management Practices for Project Planning, Deployment, and Application View Report Here
Bockrath, Katherine & Tuttle‐Lau, Maren & Mize, Erica & Von Ruden, Kyle & Woiak, Zeb. (2022). Direct comparison of eDNA capture and extraction methods through measuring recovery of synthetic DNA cloned into living cells. Environmental DNA. 4. 10.1002/edn3.330.
Katherine D. Bockrath, Maren T. Tuttle-Lau, Erica L. Mize, Kyle Von Ruden, Zebadiah Woiak, Direct comparison of eDNA capture and extraction methods through measuring recovery of synthetic DNA cloned into living cells, Environmental DNA Vol. 4, Iss. 5, 1000-1010, Jun 2022
2019
E L Mize, R A Erickson, C M Merkes, N Berndt, K Bockrath, J Credico, N Grueneis, J Merry, K Mosel, M Tuttle-Lau, K Von Ruden, Z Woiak, J J Amberg, K Baerwaldt, S Finney, E Monroe, Refinement of eDNA as an early monitoring tool at the landscape-level, Ecological Applications, 2019, Volume 29, Issue 6, Article e01951, DOI: 10.1002/eap.1951.
TY - JOUR AU - Guan, Xin AU - Monroe, Emy AU - Bockrath, Katherine AU - Mize, Erica AU - Rees, Christopher AU - Lindsay, Denise AU - Baerwaldt, Kelly AU - Nico, Leo AU - Lance, Richard PY - 2019/07/01 SP - T1 - Environmental DNA assays for invasive populations of the Black Carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus, in North America VL - 148 DO - 10.1002/tafs.10195 JO - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society ER –
2017
Larson, James & Knights, Brent & Mccalla, S. & Monroe, Emy & Tuttle-Lau, Maren & Chapman, Duane & George, Amy & Vallazza, Jon & Amberg, Jon. (2017). Evidence of Asian Carp Spawning Upstream of a Key Choke Point in the Mississippi River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 37. 903-919. 10.1080/02755947.2017.1327901.
2015
Amberg, Jon & Mccalla, S. & Monroe, Emy & Lance, Richard & Baerwaldt, Kelly & Gaikowski, Mark. (2015). Improving efficiency and reliability of environmental DNA analysis for silver carp. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 41. 10.1016/j.jglr.2015.02.009.
Mccalla, S. & Lance, Richard & Rees, Christopher & Keller, Doug & Baerwaldt, Kelly & Berndt, Nicholas & Amberg, Jon & Monroe, Emy. (2015). Investigating the Performance of Next-Generation Sequencing for Fish Community Monitoring.
2014
Amberg, Jon & Rees, Christopher & Monroe, Emy & Lance, Richard & Mccalla, S. & Gaikowski, Mark. (2014). Importance of Valid Environmental DNA Markers As Part of Integrated Pest Management of Aquatic Invasive Species.
Marisa Barbknecht, Sol Sepsenwol, Eric Leis, Maren Tuttle-Lau, Mark Gaikowski, Nick Knowles, Becky Lasee and Michael Hoffman. 2014. Characterization of a new picornavirus isolated from the freshwater fish Lepomis macrochirus. General Journal of Virology 95: 601-613