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Swee J. Teh is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including fish ecology and management studies, marine and fisheries research, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, marine and coastal ecosystems, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and fish biology and ecology studies.

Recent publications by Swee J. Teh include:

  • Clinical Outcomes Following Regionalization of Gastric Cancer Care in a US Integrated Health Care System, 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Chronic exposure to high-density polyethylene microplastic through feeding alters the nutrient metabolism of juvenile yellow perch (Perca flavescens), 2022, Animal Nutrition
  • Impact of extreme wet and dry years on the persistence of Microcystis harmful algal blooms in San Francisco Estuary, 2020, Quaternary International
  • Local Monitoring Should Inform Local Solutions: Morphological Assemblages of Microplastics Are Similar within a Pathway, But Relative Total Concentrations Vary Regionally, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Covariance of Phytoplankton, Bacteria, and Zooplankton Communities Within Microcystis Blooms in San Francisco Estuary, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Bruce G. Hammock, with 12 coauthored works
  • Shawn Acuña, with 10 coauthored works
  • Tomofumi Kurobe, with 9 coauthored works
  • Tien-Chieh Hung, with 9 coauthored works
  • Andrew A. Schultz, with 6 coauthored works

Publications appear often in the following venues:

  • Frontiers for Young Minds (3 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Eunha Hoh;Tomofumi Kurobe;Swee J. Teh

  • Policy: Classify plastic waste as hazardous

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Mark Anthony Browne;Benjamin S. Halpern;Brian T. Hentschel

  • Anthropogenic debris in seafood: Plastic debris and fibers from textiles in fish and bivalves sold for human consumption

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Akbar Tahir;Susan L. Williams;Dolores V. Baxa

  • Early warning signs of endocrine disruption in adult fish from the ingestion of polyethylene with and without sorbed chemical pollutants from the marine environment

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Tomofumi Kurobe;Ida Flores;Swee J. Teh

  • Long-term sorption of metals is similar among plastic types: implications for plastic debris in aquatic environments.

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Brian T. Hentschel;Swee J. Teh

  • Histopathologic biomarkers in feral freshwater fish populations exposed to different types of contaminant stress

    Swee J. Teh;S.M. Adams;David E. Hinton

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in fish tissue may be an indicator of plastic contamination in marine habitats

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Rebecca L. Lewison;Marcus Eriksen;Harry Allen

  • Selenium biotransformations into proteinaceous forms by foodweb organisms of selenium-laden drainage waters in California.

    Teresa W.-M Fan;Swee J Teh;David E Hinton;Richard M Higashi

  • Determining the sensitive developmental stages of intersex induction in medaka (Oryzias latipes) exposed to 17β-estradiol or testosterone

    C. S. Koger;Swee J Teh;D. E. Hinton

  • Histological and histochemical changes in the digestive tract of white sturgeon larvae during ontogeny

    A. Gawlicka;Swee J Teh;S. S O Hung;D. E. Hinton

  • Cytological changes during progression of neoplasia in selected fish species

    David E. Hinton;John A. Couch;Swee J. Teh;Lee A. Courtney

  • Direct and indirect effects of different types of microplastics on freshwater prey (Corbicula fluminea) and their predator (Acipenser transmontanus).

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Chelsea M. Rochman;J. Mark Parnis;Mark A. Browne;Sebastian Serrato

  • Bioaccumulation and chronic toxicity of dietary L-selenomethionine in juvenile white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)

    Diran H. Tashjian;Swee J. Teh;Arutyun Sogomonyan;Silas S.O. Hung

  • Thiobencarb-induced embryotoxicity in medaka (Oryzias latipes): stage-specific toxicity and the protective role of chorion.

    S.Alex Villalobos;Jonathan T Hamm;Swee J Teh;David E Hinton

  • Initial impacts of Microcystis aeruginosa blooms on the aquatic food web in the San Francisco Estuary

    P. W. Lehman;Swee J Teh;G. L. Boyer;M. L. Nobriga

  • Ecological risk assessment in a large river-reservoir. 6. Bioindicators of fish population health

    S. Marshall Adams;Mark S. Bevelhimer;Mark Stephen Greeley;Daniel A. Levine

  • Impacts of the 2014 severe drought on the Microcystis bloom in San Francisco Estuary.

    P. W. Lehman;Tomofumi Kurobe;S. Lesmeister;Dolores Baxa

  • Variations of light and temperature regimes and resulting effects on reproductive parameters in medaka (Oryzias latipes)

    C. S. Koger;Swee J Teh;David E. Hinton

  • Estimating the abundance of toxic Microcystis in the San Francisco Estuary using quantitative real-time PCR

    Dolores V. Baxa;Tomofumi Kurobe;Kemal A. Ger;Peggy W. Lehman

  • Chronic effects of dietary selenium on juvenile Sacramento splittail (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus)

    Swee J Teh;Xin Deng;Dong Fang Deng;Foo Ching Teh

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Hinton
David E. Hinton Duke University
Chelsea M. Rochman
Chelsea M. Rochman University of Toronto
Thomas M. Young
Thomas M. Young University of California, Davis
Teresa W.-M. Fan
Teresa W.-M. Fan University of Kentucky
Pramod K. Pandey
Pramod K. Pandey University of California, Davis
Charles R. Goldman
Charles R. Goldman University of California, Davis
Richard M. Higashi
Richard M. Higashi University of Kentucky
Bruce D. Hammock
Bruce D. Hammock University of California, Davis
Jay A Davis
Jay A Davis United States Geological Survey
Mace G. Barron
Mace G. Barron Environmental Protection Agency

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