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Richard E. Connon is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a total of 88 publications in this field.

Their subfields of study encompass ecology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, nature and landscape conservation, pollution, and molecular biology. Key topics investigated in their work include environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, fish ecology and management studies, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, and identification and quantification in food.

Their frequent publication venues include Environmental Pollution with eight papers, Conservation Physiology with seven, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment each with three, and San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science also with three.

Frequent coauthors of Richard E. Connon are:

  • Nann A. Fangue (16 coauthored papers)
  • Amélie Segarra (13 coauthored papers)
  • Michael J. Lydy (12 coauthored papers)
  • Susanne M. Brander (11 coauthored papers)
  • Tien-Chieh Hung (11 coauthored papers)

Some recent papers by Richard E. Connon include:

  • Environmental DNA Methods for Ecological Monitoring and Biodiversity Assessment in Estuaries, 2022, published in Estuaries and Coasts
  • Multigenerational and Transgenerational Effects of Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Endocrine Disruptors in an Estuarine Fish Model, 2020, published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Early Life Exposure to Environmentally Relevant Levels of Endocrine Disruptors Drive Multigenerational and Transgenerational Epigenetic Changes in a Fish Model, 2020, published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Bifenthrin exposure causes hyperactivity in early larval stages of an endangered fish species at concentrations that occur during their hatching season, 2020, published in Aquatic Toxicology
  • Transcriptional flexibility during thermal challenge corresponds with expanded thermal tolerance in an invasive compared to native fish, 2020, published in Evolutionary Applications

Best Publications

  • Effect-Based Tools for Monitoring and Predicting the Ecotoxicological Effects of Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment

    Richard E. Connon;Juergen Geist;Inge Werner

  • Pyrethroid Pesticides as Endocrine Disruptors: Molecular Mechanisms in Vertebrates with a Focus on Fishes.

    Susanne M. Brander;Molly K. Gabler;Nicholas L. Fowler;Richard E. Connon

  • Chronic toxicity of ibuprofen to Daphnia magna: Effects on life history traits and population dynamics

    Lars Henrik Heckmann;Amanda Callaghan;Helen L. Hooper;Richard E Connon

  • Systems biology meets stress ecology: linking molecular and organismal stress responses in Daphnia magna.

    Lars Henrik Heckmann;Lars Henrik Heckmann;Richard M. Sibly;Richard E Connon;Richard E Connon;Helen L. Hooper

  • Sublethal toxicity of commercial insecticide formulations and their active ingredients to larval fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

    Sebastian Beggel;Inge Werner;Richard E. Connon;Juergen P. Geist

  • Expression of target and reference genes in Daphnia magna exposed to ibuprofen

    Lars Henrik Heckmann;Richard E Connon;Thomas H. Hutchinson;Steve J. Maund

  • Linking Molecular and Population Stress Responses in Daphnia magna exposed to cadmium

    Richard E Connon;Helen L. Hooper;Richard M. Sibly;Fei Ling Lim

  • Effects of high temperatures on threatened estuarine fishes during periods of extreme drought

    Ken M. Jeffries;Richard E. Connon;Brittany E. Davis;Lisa M. Komoroske

  • Ontogeny influences sensitivity to climate change stressors in an endangered fish

    L. M. Komoroske;Richard E Connon;J. Lindberg;B. S. Cheng

  • The utility of transcriptomics in fish conservation.

    Richard E. Connon;Ken M. Jeffries;Lisa M. Komoroske;Lisa M. Komoroske;Anne E. Todgham

  • Linking mechanistic and behavioral responses to sublethal esfenvalerate exposure in the endangered delta smelt; Hypomesus transpacificus (Fam. Osmeridae)

    Richard E Connon;Juergen Geist;Juergen Geist;Janice Pfeiff;Alexander V Loguinov

  • Transcriptomic changes underlie altered egg protein production and reduced fecundity in an estuarine model fish exposed to bifenthrin.

    Susanne M. Brander;Ken M. Jeffries;Bryan J. Cole;Bethany M. DeCourten

  • Impacts of the phenylpyrazole insecticide fipronil on larval fish: Time-series gene transcription responses in fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) following short-term exposure

    Sebastian Beggel;Inge Werner;Richard E. Connon;Juergen P. Geist

  • THE ECOLOGICAL NICHE OF DAPHNIA MAGNA CHARACTERIZED USING POPULATION GROWTH RATE

    Helen L. Hooper;Richard E Connon;Amanda Callaghan;Geoffrey Fryer

  • Environmental DNA Methods for Ecological Monitoring and Biodiversity Assessment in Estuaries

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  • Turbidity and Salinity Affect Feeding Performance and Physiological Stress in the Endangered Delta Smelt

    Matthias Hasenbein;Lisa M. Komoroske;Richard E. Connon;Juergen Geist

  • Changes in gene transcription and whole organism responses in larval fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) following short-term exposure to the synthetic pyrethroid bifenthrin

    Sebastian Beggel;Richard E Connon;Inge Werner;Juergen Geist

  • Is Extinction Inevitable for Delta Smelt and Longfin Smelt? An Opinion and Recommendations for Recovery

    James A. Hobbs;Peter B. Moyle;Nann Fangue;Richard E. Connon

  • Linking transcriptional responses to organismal tolerance reveals mechanisms of thermal sensitivity in a mesothermal endangered fish.

    Lisa M. Komoroske;Lisa M. Komoroske;Richard E. Connon;Ken M. Jeffries;Nann A. Fangue

  • Coupled Downscaled Climate Models and Ecophysiological Metrics Forecast Habitat Compression for an Endangered Estuarine Fish

    Larry R. Brown;Lisa M. Komoroske;Lisa M. Komoroske;R. Wayne Wagner;Tara Morgan-King

  • Environmentally relevant concentrations of herbicides impact non-target species at multiple sublethal endpoints

    Simone Hasenbein;Jade Peralta;Sharon P. Lawler;Richard E. Connon

  • Sublethal salinity stress contributes to habitat limitation in an endangered estuarine fish.

    Lisa M. Komoroske;Lisa M. Komoroske;Ken M. Jeffries;Richard E. Connon;Jason Dexter

  • Chronic exposures to low and high concentrations of ibuprofen elicit different gene response patterns in a euryhaline fish

    Ken M. Jeffries;Susanne M. Brander;Monica T. Britton;Nann A. Fangue

  • Developmental exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of bifenthrin alters transcription of mTOR and ryanodine receptor-dependent signaling molecules and impairs predator avoidance behavior across early life stages in inland silversides (Menidia beryllina).

    Daniel F. Frank;Susanne M. Brander;Simone Hasenbein;Simone Hasenbein;Danielle J. Harvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Nann A. Fangue
Nann A. Fangue University of California, Davis
Juergen Geist
Juergen Geist Technical University of Munich
Amanda Callaghan
Amanda Callaghan University of Reading
Sharon P. Lawler
Sharon P. Lawler University of California, Davis
Michael J. Lydy
Michael J. Lydy Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Richard M. Sibly
Richard M. Sibly University of Reading
Donald P. Weston
Donald P. Weston University of California, Berkeley
Gary N. Cherr
Gary N. Cherr University of California, Davis
Mark Crane
Mark Crane Royal Holloway University of London
Pamela J. Lein
Pamela J. Lein University of California, Davis

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