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Stephen D. McCormick is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Immunology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics related to aquatic species and their physiological processes. Key areas of research include:

  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Marine and fisheries research

Stephen D. McCormick has contributed frequently to several publication venues, with notable numbers of publications in:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Conservation Physiology
  • Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
  • Scientific Reports

Among recent papers published by this scientist are:

  • "How repeatable is CTmax within individual brook trout over short- and long-time intervals?" (2020), Journal of Thermal Biology
  • "Photoperiodic regulation of pituitary thyroid-stimulating hormone and brain deiodinase in Atlantic salmon" (2020), Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
  • "Evidence of prevalent heat stress in Yukon River Chinook salmon" (2020), Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • "11-Deoxycortisol controls hydromineral balance in the most basal osmoregulating vertebrate, sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)" (2020), Scientific Reports
  • "Cortisol regulates insulin-like growth-factor binding protein (igfbp) gene expression in Atlantic salmon parr" (2020), Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Stephen D. McCormick has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Amy M. Regish
  • Daniel J. Hall
  • Ciarán A. Shaughnessy
  • Jason P. Breves
  • Benjamin H. Letcher

Best Publications

  • Methods for Nonlethal Gill Biopsy and Measurement of Na+, K+-ATPase Activity

    Stephen D. McCormick

  • Endocrine control of osmoregulation in teleost fish

    Stephen D. McCormick

  • Movement, migration, and smolting of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    Stephen D McCormick;Lars P Hansen;Thomas P Quinn;Richard L Saunders

  • Why aren't there more Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)?

    Donna L Parrish;Robert J Behnke;Stephen R Gephard;Stephen D McCormick

  • Growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors in fish: where we are and where to go.

    Manfred Reinecke;Björn Thrandur Björnsson;Walton W. Dickhoff;Stephen D. McCormick

  • Prolactin and growth hormone in fish osmoregulation

    Tatsuya Sakamoto;Stephen D. McCormick

  • Distinct freshwater and seawater isoforms of Na+/K+-ATPase in gill chloride cells of Atlantic salmon.

    Stephen D. McCormick;A.M. Regish;A.K. Christensen

  • Osmoregulatory actions of growth hormone and its mode of action in salmonids : a review

    Tatsuya Sakamoto;Stephen D. McCormick;Tetsuya Hirano

  • Environmental endocrinology of salmon smoltification.

    Björn Thrandur Björnsson;Sigurd O. Stefansson;Stephen D. McCormick

  • Evidence for an apical Na-Cl cotransporter involved in ion uptake in a teleost fish.

    Junya Hiroi;Junya Hiroi;Shigeki Yasumasu;Stephen D. McCormick;Stephen D. McCormick;Pung-Pung Hwang

  • Atlantic salmon smolts are more responsive to an acute handling and confinement stress than parr.

    Judith B Carey;Stephen D McCormick

  • Effects of Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factor I on Salinity Tolerance and Gill Na+, K+-ATPase in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): Interaction with Cortisol

    Stephen D. McCormick

  • Photoperiod Control of Parr–Smolt Transformation in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): Changes in Salinity Tolerance, Gill Na+,K+-ATPase Activity, and Plasma Thyroid Hormones

    Stephen D. McCormick;Richard L. Saunders;Eugene B. Henderson;Paul R. Harmon

  • Differential expression of gill Na+,K+-ATPase alpha- and beta-subunits, Na+,K+,2Cl- cotransporter and CFTR anion channel in juvenile anadromous and landlocked Atlantic salmon Salmo salar.

    Tom O. Nilsen;Lars O.E. Ebbesson;Steffen S. Madsen;Stephen D. McCormick

  • New insights into gill ionocyte and ion transporter function in euryhaline and diadromous fish.

    Junya Hiroi;Stephen D. McCormick;Stephen D. McCormick

  • In vitro stimulation of Na+-K+-ATPase activity and ouabain binding by cortisol in coho salmon gill

    S. D. McCormick;H. A. Bern

  • Are we missing a mineralocorticoid in teleost fish? Effects of cortisol, deoxycorticosterone and aldosterone on osmoregulation, gill Na+,K+ -ATPase activity and isoform mRNA levels in Atlantic salmon.

    Stephen D. McCormick;Amy Regish;Michael F. O’Dea;J. Mark Shrimpton

  • Physiological response of wild rainbow trout to angling: Impact of angling duration, fish size, body condition, and temperature

    Julie M. Meka;Stephen D. McCormick

  • Time course of salinity adaptation in a strongly euryhaline estuarine teleost, fundulus heteroclitus: a multivariable approach

    W.S. Marshall;T.R. Emberley;T.D. Singer;S.E. Bryson

  • Functional classification of mitochondrion-rich cells in euryhaline mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) embryos, by means of triple immunofluorescence staining for Na+/K+-ATPase, Na+/K+/2Cl- cotransporter and CFTR anion channel

    Junya Hiroi;Stephen D. McCormick;Stephen D. McCormick;Ritsuko Ohtani-Kaneko;Toyoji Kaneko

Frequent Co-Authors

Björn Thrandur Björnsson
Björn Thrandur Björnsson University of Gothenburg
Howard A. Bern
Howard A. Bern University of California, Berkeley
Sigurd O. Stefansson
Sigurd O. Stefansson University of Bergen
Eric T. Schultz
Eric T. Schultz University of Connecticut
Robert J. Naiman
Robert J. Naiman University of Washington
Keith H. Nislow
Keith H. Nislow US Forest Service
Walton W. Dickhoff
Walton W. Dickhoff National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Yoshio Takei
Yoshio Takei University of Tokyo
Vincent Goffin
Vincent Goffin Université Paris Cité
Deborah M. Power
Deborah M. Power University of Algarve

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