PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS
Projects
As you will determine from our publications and our lists of lab members and collaborators, we are investigating a wide range of projects - all under the theme development, environment and physiology,
including:
cardiac development and function
vascular growth and development
metabolic competency
respiratory system growth, and the transition from system to system in bi- or tri-modal breathers
hypoxia tolerance
thermoregulation
fetal programming
epigenetic inheritance
Recent Publications
The recent (2021-2024) research publications from our laboratory, listed below, have resulted from work either at UNT or in cooperation with one or more of our collaborators.
2024
Fahlman, A., Burggren, W. and Milsom, W. The role of cognition as a factor regulating the diving responses of animals, including humans. Journal of Experimental Biology. 227(20) :jeb246472.
Burggren, W., Dzialowski, E. and Tzschentke, B. The avian embryo as a time-honored animal model in developmental, biomedical and agricultural research. Philosophical Proceedings of the Royal Society – B. In Press.
Martinez-Bautista, G., Padilla, P., Burggren, W. Genetic basis for morphological variation in the Zebrafish Danio rerio: Insights from a low heterozygosity line. Fishes. 9(5), 164. doi.org/10.3390/fishes9050164.
Burggren, W., Fahlman, A. and Milsom, W. Breathing patterns and associated cardiovascular changes in intermittently breathing animals: (Partially) correcting a semantic quagmire. Experimental Physiology. doi.org/ 10.1113/ep091784.c
Crossley, D.A. 2nd, Bagatto, B.P., Dzialowski, .EM., Burggren, W.W., Hicks, J.W. Short communication: Baroreflex function in embryonic emus (Dromiceius novaehollandiae). Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 290:111576.
Göpel, T. and Burggren, W. Temperature and hypoxia trigger developmental phenotypic plasticity of cardiorespiratory physiology and growth in the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish, Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. In Press.
2023
Burggren, W. and Mendez-Sanchez, F. “Bet heging’ against climated change in developoing and adult animals: roles for stochastic gene expression, phenotypic plasticity, epigenetic inheritance and adapatation. Frontiers in Physiology DOI 10.3389/pphys.2023.1245875.
Khursigara, A.J., Roberts, A., Burggren, W. and Hamilton, T.J. Behavior and Toxicology. In: Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, 2nd edition. Elsevier. Doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90801-6.00037-9
Bautista, N., Crespel, A., Martinez Bautista, G. and Burggren, W. Dietary crude oil exposure during sex differentiation skewes adult sex ratio towards males in the zebrafish. Science of the Total Environment. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164449.
Chaput, S.-L., Burggren, W., Hurd, P. and Hamilton, T. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) shoaling in light and dark conditions involves a complex interplay between vision and lateral line. Behavioral Brain Research. 439:114228
Burggren, W., Andrewartha, S.J., Mueller, C.A., Dubansky, B. and Tazawa, H. Acid-base and hematological regulation in chicken embryos during internal progressive hypercapnic hypoxia. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology. 308:103996.
2022
Martinez Bautista, G., Martínez-Burguete, T., Peña-Marín, E., Jiménez Martínez, E., Camirillo-Coop, S., Burggren, W. W., Álvarez-González, A. Hypoxia- and hyperoxia-related gene expression dynamics during developmental critical windows of the tropical gar Atractosteus tropicus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 263:111093.
Vazquez Roman, K., Burggren, W. W.. Metabolic responses to crude oil during early life stages reveal critical developmental windows in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 254:109274.
Branum, S., Tazawa, H., Burggren, W. W. Physiological regulation of growth, hematology and blood gases in chicken embryos in response to low and high incubation humidity. Frontiers in Physiology. doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.880737
Göpel, T. and Burggren, W. Cores of reproducibility in physiology: Insufficient reporting of experimental variables as a cause for non-reproducibility in animal physiology? A Case Study. American Journal of Physiology. 323(3):R363-R374.
Lewallen, M. and Burggren, W. Metabolic cost of development, regeneration, and reproduction in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. Molecular and Integrative Physiology. 265:111127.
Córdova-de la Cruz, S.E., Martinéz Bautista, G., Peña-Marín, E.M, Martinéz-Garcia, R., Núñez-Nogueira, G., Adams, R.H., Burggren, W., Álvarez-González, C.A. Morphological and cardiac alterations after crude oil exposure in the early-life stages of the tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus). Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(15):22281-22292.
For Publications before 2022 see Warren Burggren's Curriculum Vitae (Download)
