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Overview

Isaac Wirgin is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work primarily focuses on genetics, nature and landscape conservation, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, and ecology.

Wirgin's research topics cover a range of areas including fish ecology and management studies, genetic diversity and population structure, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, toxic organic pollutants impact, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, identification and quantification in food, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wirgin include:

  • John R. Waldman
  • Lorraine Maceda
  • Adam G. Fox
  • Nirmal Kumar Roy
  • R. Christopher Chambers

Publications by Isaac Wirgin have appeared in several scientific journals, with repeated contributions to Fisheries Research and Marine and Coastal Fisheries. Other venues include Conservation Genetics, Sustainability, and Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Wirgin include:

  • Atlantic coastwide population structure of striped bass Morone saxatilis using microsatellite DNA analysis, 2020, Fisheries Research
  • Establishment of a microsatellite genetic baseline for North American Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser o. oxyrhinchus) and range-wide analysis of population genetics, 2021, Conservation Genetics
  • Toxic Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Congeners and Aroclors on Embryonic Growth and Development, 2020, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • The Chemistry and Health Outcomes of Electronic Waste (E-Waste) Leachate: Exposure to E-Waste Is Toxic to Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) Embryos, 2022, Sustainability
  • Use of social network analysis to examine preferential co-occurrences in Atlantic Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrhinchus Mitchill, 1815, 2020, Animal Biotelemetry

Isaac Wirgin's academic work intersects multiple fields by addressing genetic and ecological factors affecting aquatic species, as well as evaluating environmental toxicology risks from pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls and electronic waste leachate.

Best Publications

  • Mechanistic basis of resistance to PCBs in Atlantic tomcod from the Hudson River.

    Isaac Wirgin;Nirmal K. Roy;Matthew Loftus;R. Christopher Chambers

  • When the American sea sturgeon swam east

    Arne Ludwig;Lutz Debus;Dietmar Lieckfeldt;Isaac Wirgin

  • Genetic and molecular ecotoxicology: A research framework

    Susan Anderson;Walter Sadinski;Lee Shugart;Peter Brussard

  • Resistance to contaminants in North American fish populations

    Isaac Wirgin;John R Waldman

  • Sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus: an exception to the rule of homing in anadromous fishes.

    John Waldman;Cheryl Grunwald;Isaac Wirgin

  • Stock composition of the New York Bight Atlantic sturgeon fishery based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA

    John R. Waldman;John T. Hart;Isaac I. Wirgin

  • Conservation of Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus : delineation of stock structure and distinct population segments

    Cheryl Grunwald;Lorraine Maceda;John Waldman;Joseph Stabile

  • GENETIC STRUCTURE OF ATLANTIC STURGEON POPULATIONS BASED ON MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CONTROL REGION SEQUENCES

    Isaac Wirgin;John R. Waldman;Jannine Rosko;Rachel Gross

  • Population genetics of shortnose sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum based on mitochondrial DNA control region sequences

    C. Grunwald;J. Stabile;J. R. Waldman;R. Gross

  • Status and Restoration Options for Atlantic Sturgeon in North America

    John R. Waldman;Isaac I. Wirgin

  • Characterization of the aromatic hydrocarbon receptor gene and its expression in Atlantic tomcod.

    Nirmal K. Roy;Isaac Wirgin

  • Altered gene expression and genetic damage in North American fish populations

    Isaac Wirgin;John R Waldman

  • Fine-scale spatial and temporal genetic structure of Atlantic cod off the Atlantic coast of the USA

    Adrienne I. Kovach;Timothy S. Breton;David L. Berlinsky;Lorraine Maceda

  • Review of Stock Discrimination Techniques for Striped Bass

    John R. Waldman;Joseph Grossfield;Isaac Wirgin

  • Stock Structure and Homing Fidelity in Gulf of Mexico Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) Based on Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism and Sequence Analyses of Mitochondrial DNA

    Joseph Stabile;John R. Waldman;Frank Parauka;Isaac Wirgin

  • Genetic Divergence between Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus and A. o. desotoi as Assessed by Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing Analysis

    Tun-Liang Ong;Joseph Stabile;Isaac Wirgin;John R. Waldman

  • Molecular analysis in the conservation of sturgeons and paddlefish

    Isaac I. Wirgin;Joseph E. Stabile;John R. Waldman

  • Activation of the K-ras oncogene in liver tumors of Hudson River tomcod.

    I. Wirgin;D. Currie;S. J. Garte

  • Racial differences in restriction fragment length polymorphisms and messenger RNA inducibility of the human CYP1A1 gene.

    Greg Cosma;Frances Crofts;Diane Currie;Isaac Wirgin

  • Impacts of life history and biogeography on the genetic stock structure of Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus, Gulf sturgeon A. oxyrinchus desotoi, and shortnose sturgeon A. brevirostrum

    J. R. Waldman;C. Grunwald;J. Stabile;I. Wirgin

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Waldman
John R. Waldman Queens College, CUNY
Roy E. Shore
Roy E. Shore New York University
Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte
Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte New York University
Paolo Toniolo
Paolo Toniolo New York University
Kari Hemminki
Kari Hemminki Charles University
Michael G. Ikonomou
Michael G. Ikonomou Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Göran Hallmans
Göran Hallmans Umeå University
Paola Muti
Paola Muti University of Milan
Timothy E. Ford
Timothy E. Ford University of Massachusetts Lowell
Harvey W. Mohrenweiser
Harvey W. Mohrenweiser Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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