Benjamin Reading

Giacomini, J. J., Adler, L. S., Reading, B. J., & Irwin, R. E. (2023). Differential bumble bee gene expression associated with pathogen infection and pollen diet. BMC Genomics, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-023-09143-5

Williams, T. I., Kowalchyk, C., Collins, L. B., & Reading, B. J. (2023, March 22). Discovery Proteomics and Absolute Protein Quantification Can Be Performed Simultaneously on an Orbitrap-Based Mass Spectrometer. ACS OMEGA, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c07614

Flores, K. R., Carvalho, L. V. F. M., Reading, B. J., Fahrenholz, A., Ferket, P. R., & Grimes, J. L. (2023). Machine learning and data mining methodology to predict nominal and numeric performance body weight values using Large White male turkey datasets. JOURNAL OF APPLIED POULTRY RESEARCH, 32(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japr.2023.100366

Newell, A. J., Jima, D., Reading, B., & Patisaul, H. B. (2023, July 3). Machine learning reveals common transcriptomic signatures across rat brain and placenta following developmental organophosphate ester exposure. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfad062

Prior, B. S., Lange, M. D., Salger, S. A., Reading, B. J., Peatman, E., & Beck, B. H. (2022). The effect of piscidin antimicrobial peptides on the formation of Gram-negative bacterial biofilms. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES, 45, 99–105. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.13540

Reading, B., & Andersen, L. (2022, August 22). Where Does Our Seafood Come From? https://doi.org/10.52750/273688

Giacomini, J. J., Adler, L. S., Reading, B. J., & Irwin, R. E. (2021, November 29). Differential Bumble Bee Gene Expression Associated With Pathogen Infection And Pollen Diet. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-912647/v1

Andersen, L. K., Clark, R. W., Hopper, M. S., Hodson, R. G., Schilling, J., Daniels, H. V., … Reading, B. J. (2021). Methods of domestic striped bass (Morone saxatilis) spawning that do not require the use of any hormone induction. AQUACULTURE, 533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.736025

Andersen, L. K., Abernathy, J., Berlinsky, D. L., Bolton, G., Booker, M. M., Borski, R. J., … Reading, B. J. (2021). The status of striped bass, <scp><i>Morone saxatilis</i>,</scp> as a commercially ready species for U.S. marine aquaculture. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 52(3), 710–730. https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.12812

Bashura, J., Burke, M., Lapitan, R., Mikulec, J., Jr., Owens, T., Reading, B. J., … Wright, D. (2021). Threats to Food and Agricultural Resources [2021 Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program]. Retrieved from United States Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis website: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/threats_to_food_and_agriculture_resources.pdf

Demi, L. M., Taylor, B. W., Reading, B. J., Tordoff, M. G., & Dunn, R. R. (2021, June 4). Understanding the evolution of nutritive taste in animals: Insights from biological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7745

Andersen, L. K., Clark, R. W., McGinty, A. S., Hopper, M. S., Kenter, L. W., Salger, S. A., … Reading, B. J. (2021). Volitional tank spawning of domestic striped bass (Morone saxatilis) using human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and gonadotropin releasing hormone analogue (GnRHa)- induced 'pace-setting' females. AQUACULTURE, 532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.735967

Guillette, T. C., McCord, J., Guillette, M., Polera, M. E., Rachels, K. T., Morgeson, C., … Belcher, S. M. (2020). Elevated levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in Cape Fear River Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) are associated with biomarkers of altered immune and liver function. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL, 136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105358

Phillips, C. A., Reading, B. J., Livingston, M., Livingston, K., & Ashwell, C. M. (2020). Evaluation via Supervised Machine Learning of the Broiler Pectoralis Major and Liver Transcriptome in Association With the Muscle Myopathy Wooden Breast. FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00101

LeBlanc, N. M., Gahagan, B. I., Andrews, S. N., Avery, T. S., Puncher, G. N., Reading, B. J., … Pavey, S. A. (2020). Genomic population structure of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Fear River. EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS, 13(6), 1468–1486. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12990

Kenter, L. W., Kovach, A. I., Wojtusik, K. J., Reading, B. J., & Berlinsky, D. L. (2020). Paternal Strain Effects on Growth and Body Shape in Hybrid Striped Bass (White Bass female x Striped Bass male). NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE, 82(4), 405–413. https://doi.org/10.1002/naaq.10162

Berlinsky, D. L., Kenter, L. W., Reading, B. J., & Goetz, F. W. (2020). Regulating reproductive cycles for captive spawning. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.fp.2020.09.001

Aruho, C., Walakira, J. K., Bugenyi, F., Rutaisire, J., & Reading, B. J. (2019). Morphology and functional ontogeny of the digestive tract of Barbus altianalis larvae. African Zoology, 54(3), 137–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2019.1642140

Woods, L. C., III, Li, Y., Ding, Y., Liu, J., Reading, B. J., Fuller, S. A., & Song, J. (2018). DNA methylation profiles correlated to striped bass sperm fertility. BMC GENOMICS, 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4548-6

Reading, B. J., McGinty, A. S., Clark, R. W., Hopper, M. S., Woods III, L. C., & Baltzegar, D. A. (2018). Genomic Enablement of Temperate Bass Aquaculture (Family Moronidae). In H. Wang & X. Liang (Eds.), Breeding and Culture of Perch and Bass (pp. 314–317). Beijing: Science China Press (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Pigg, S., & Reading, B. J. (2018). Knowing Bass: Accounting for Information Environments in Designing Online Public Outreach. OPEN LIBRARY OF HUMANITIES, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.377

Douros, J. D., Baltzegar, D. A., Reading, B. J., Seale, A. P., Lerner, D. T., Grau, E. G., & Borski, R. J. (2018). Leptin Stimulates Cellular Glycolysis Through a STAT3 Dependent Mechanism in Tilapia. FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2018.00465

Mushirobira, Y., Nishimiya, O., Nagata, J., Todo, T., Hara, A., Reading, B. J., & Hiramatsu, N. (2018). Molecular cloning of vitellogenin gene promoters and in vitro and in vivo transcription profiles following estradiol-17 beta administration in the cutthroat trout. GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY, 267, 157–166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.06.017

Reading, B., Andersen, L., Ryu, Y.-W., Mushirobira, Y., Todo, T., & Hiramatsu, N. (2018). Oogenesis and Egg Quality in Finfish: Yolk Formation and Other Factors Influencing Female Fertility. Fishes, 3(4), 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes3040045

Kenter, L. W., Kovach, A. I., Woods, L. C., III, Reading, B. J., & Berlinsky, D. L. (2018). Strain evaluation of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) cultured at different salinities. AQUACULTURE, 492, 215–225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.04.017

Ryan, S. F., Adamson, N. L., Aktipis, A., Andersen, L. K., Austin, R., Barnes, L., … Dunn, R. R. (2018). The role of citizen science in addressing grand challenges in food and agriculture research. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1891), 20181977. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1977

Abdelrahman, H., ElHady, M., Alcivar-Warren, A., Allen, S., Al-Tobasei, R., Bao, L., … Zhou, T. (2017). Aquaculture genomics, genetics and breeding in the United States: current status, challenges, and priorities for future research. BMC GENOMICS, 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3557-1

Mizuta, H., Mushirobira, Y., Nagata, J., Todo, T., Hara, A., Reading, B. J., … Hiramatsu, N. (2017). Ovarian expression and localization of clathrin (Cltc) components in cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarki: Evidence for Cltc involvement in endocytosis of vitellogenin during oocyte growth. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY, 212, 24–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2017.06.021

Salger, S. A., Reading, B. J., & Noga, E. J. (2017). Tissue localization of piscidin host-defense peptides during striped bass (Morone saxatilis) development. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY, 61, 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2016.12.034

Reading, B. J., Sullivan, C. V., & Schilling, J. (2017). Vitellogenesis in Fishes. In Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment. Reference Module in Life Sciences (2nd edition). Maryland Heights, Missouri: Elsevier.

Salger, S. A., Cassady, K. R., Reading, B. J., & Noga, E. J. (2016). A Diverse Family of Host-Defense Peptides (Piscidins) Exhibit Specialized Anti-Bacterial and Anti-Protozoal Activities in Fishes. PLOS ONE, 11(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159423

Reading, B. J., Wills, P. S., Heidinger, R. C., & Heist, E. J. (2016). Genetic variability in meiotic gynogenetic muskellunge, Esox masquinongy (Mitchell), estimated from segregation of microsatellite alleles. AQUACULTURE RESEARCH, 47(9), 2705–2715. https://doi.org/10.1111/are.12718

Schilling, J., Nepomuceno, A. I., Planchart, A., Yoder, J. A., Kelly, R. M., Muddiman, D. C., … Reading, B. J. (2015). Machine learning reveals sex-specific 17β-estradiol-responsive expression patterns in white perch (Morone americana) plasma proteins. PROTEOMICS, 15(15), 2678–2690. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201400606

Schilling, J., Loziuk, P. L., Muddiman, D. C., Daniels, H. V., & Reading, B. J. (2015). Mechanisms of Egg Yolk Formation and Implications on Early Life History of White Perch (Morone americana). PLOS ONE, 10(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143225

Mushirobira, Y., Mizuta, H., Luo, W., Todo, T., Hara, A., Reading, B. J., … Hiramatsu, N. (2015). Molecular Cloning and Partial Characterization of a Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein 13 (Lrp13) Involved in Vitellogenin Uptake in the Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki). MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT, 82(12), 986–1000. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.22579

Hiramatsu, N., Todo, T., Sullivan, C. V., Schilling, J., Reading, B. J., Matsubara, T., … Hara, A. (2015). Ovarian yolk formation in fishes: Molecular mechanisms underlying formation of lipid droplets and vitellogenin-derived yolk proteins. GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY, 221, 9–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.01.025

Sullivan, C. V., Chapman, R. W., Reading, B. J., & Anderson, P. E. (2015). Transcriptomics of mRNA and egg quality in farmed fish: Some recent developments and future directions. GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY, 221, 23–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.02.012

Schilling, J., Nepomuceno, A., Schaff, J. E., Muddiman, D. C., Daniels, H. V., & Reading, B. J. (2014). Compartment Proteomics Analysis of White Perch (Morone americana) Ovary Using Support Vector Machines. JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH, 13(3), 1515–1526. https://doi.org/10.1021/pr401067g

Reading, B. J., Hiramatsu, N., Schilling, J., Molloy, K. T., Glassbrook, N., Mizuta, H., … Sullivan, C. V. (2014). Lrp13 is a novel vertebrate lipoprotein receptor that binds vitellogenins in teleost fishes. JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH, 55(11), 2287–2295. https://doi.org/10.1194/jlr.m050286

Williams, V. N., Reading, B. J., Hiramatsu, N., Amano, H., Glassbrook, N., Hara, A., & Sullivan, C. V. (2014). Multiple vitellogenins and product yolk proteins in striped bass, Morone saxatilis: molecular characterization and processing during oocyte growth and maturation. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, 40(2), 395–415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-013-9852-0

Chapman, R. W., Reading, B. J., & Sullivan, C. V. (2014). Ovary Transcriptome Profiling via Artificial Intelligence Reveals a Transcriptomic Fingerprint Predicting Egg Quality in Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis. PLOS ONE, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096818

Williams, V. N., Reading, B. J., Amano, H., Hiramatsu, N., Schilling, J., Salger, S. A., … Sullivan, C. V. (2014). Proportional Accumulation of Yolk Proteins Derived From Multiple Vitellogenins is Precisely Regulated During Vitellogenesis in Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis). JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART A-ECOLOGICAL AND INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY, 321(6), 301–315. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1859

Baltzegar, D. A., Reading, B. J., Douros, J. D., & Borski, R. J. (2014). Role for leptin in promoting glucose mobilization during acute hyperosmotic stress in teleost fishes. JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY, 220(1), 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1530/joe-13-0292

Reading, B. J., Williams, V. N., Chapman, R. W., Williams, T. I., & Sullivan, C. V. (2013). Dynamics of the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) Ovary Proteome Reveal a Complex Network of the Translasome. Journal of Proteome Research, 12(4), 1691–1699. https://doi.org/10.1021/pr3010293

Luo, W. S., Ito, Y., Mizuta, H., Massaki, K., Hiramatsu, N., Todo, T., … Hara, A. (2013). Molecular cloning and partial characterization of an ovarian receptor with seven ligand binding repeats, an orthologue of low-density lipoprotein receptor, in the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 166(2), 263–271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.06.026

Hiramatsu, N., Luo, W., Reading, B. J., Sullivan, C. V., Mizuta, H., Ryu, Y.-W., … Hara, A. (2013). Multiple ovarian lipoprotein receptors in teleosts. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, 39(1), 29–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-012-9612-6

Mizuta, H., Luo, W., Ito, Y., Mushirobira, Y., Todo, T., Hara, A., … Hiramatsu, N. (2013). Ovarian expression and localization of a vitellogenin receptor with eight ligand binding repeats in the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki). COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 166(1), 81–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpb.2013.07.005

Baltzegar, D. A., Reading, B. J., Brune, E. S., & Borski, R. J. (2013). Phylogenetic revision of the claudin gene family. MARINE GENOMICS, 11, 17–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2013.05.001

Reading, B. J., Chapman, R. W., Schaff, J. E., Scholl, E. H., Opperman, C. H., & Sullivan, C. V. (2012). An ovary transcriptome for all maturational stages of the striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a highly advanced perciform fish. BMC Research Notes, 5(1), 111. https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-111

Reading, B. J., Hiramatsu, N., & Sullivan, C. V. (2011). Disparate Binding of Three Types of Vitellogenin to Multiple Forms of Vitellogenin Receptor in White Perch. BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION, 84(2), 392–399. https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.110.087981

Salger, S. A., Reading, B. J., Baltzegar, D. A., Sullivan, C. V., & Noga, E. J. (2011). Molecular characterization of two isoforms of piscidin 4 from the hybrid striped bass (Morone chrysops x Morone saxatilis). FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY, 30(1), 420–424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2010.10.009

Reading, B. J., & Sullivan, C. V. (2011). Vitellogenesis in Fishes. In A. P. Farrell (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment (pp. 635–646). London: Elsevier.

Reading, B. J., Hiramatsu, N., Sawaguchi, S., Matsubara, T., Hara, A., Lively, M. O., & Sullivan, C. V. (2009). [Review of Conserved and Variant Molecular and Functional Features of Multiple Egg Yolk Precursor Proteins (Vitellogenins) in White Perch (Morone americana) and other Teleosts]. MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY, 11(2), 169–187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-008-9133-6

Reading, B. J., Hiramatsu, N., Matsubara, T., Hara, A., & Sullivan, C. V. (2008). Deduced primary structures of three vitellogenins and specific binding to putative multiple ovarian receptors in white perch (Morone americana). Cybium, 32(2), 159–161.

Davis, L. K., Hiramatsu, N., Hiramatsu, K., Reading, B. J., Matsubara, T., Hara, A., … Grau, G. (2007). Induction of three vitellogenins by 17beta-estradiol with concurrent inhibition of the growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor 1 axis in a euryhaline teleost, the tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus). BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION, 77(4), 614–625. https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.107.060947

Reading, B. J., Wills, P. S., Heidinger, R. C., & Heist, E. J. (2003). Development of microsatellite markers for muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) and cross-species amplification in two other esocids. Molecular Ecology Notes, 3(3), 447–449. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00479.x

Heist, E. J., Jenkot, J. L., Keeney, D. B., Lane, R. L., Moyer, G. R., Reading, B. J., & Smith, N. L. (2003). Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Molecular Ecology Notes, 3(1), 59–61. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00348.x