Erik
V. Thuesen, Ph.D.
Member
of the Faculty in Zoology
- Thuesen,
E. V. & R. Bieri, 1987. Tooth structure and
buccal pores in the chaetognath Flaccisagitta hexaptera and their relation
to the capture of fish larvae and copepods. Canadian Journal of Zoology,
65: 181-187.
- Bieri,
R., M. Terazaki, E. V. Thuesen & T. Nemoto, 1987. The
colour pattern of Spadella angulata (Chaetognatha: Spadellidae)
with a note on its northern range extension. Bulletin of Plankton Society
of Japan, 34: 83-84.
- Thuesen,
E. V., K. Kogure, K. Hashimoto & T. Nemoto, 1988. Poison
arrowworms: a tetrodotoxin venom in the marine phylum Chaetognatha. Journal
of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 116: 249-256.
- Kogure,
K., H. K. Do, E. V. Thuesen, K. Namba, K. Ohwada & U. Simidu, 1988. Accumulation
of tetrodotoxin in marine sediment. Marine
Ecology Progress Series,
45: 303-305.
- Thuesen,
E. V., S. Nagasawa, R. Bieri & T. Nemoto, 1988. Transvestibular pores
of chaetognaths with comments on the function and nomenclature of the vestibular
anatomy. Bulletin
of Plankton Society of Japan,
35: 111-120.
- Thuesen,
E. V. & K. Kogure, 1989. Bacterial production of tetrodotoxin in four
species of Chaetognatha. Biological
Bulletin,
176: 191-194.
- Bieri,
R. & E. V. Thuesen, 1990. The strange worm Bathybelos. American
Scientist, 78: 542-549.
- Thuesen,
E. V., 1991. The tetrodotoxin venom of chaetognaths. In The Biology of
Chaetognaths, edited by Q. Bone, H. Kapp & A. C. Pierrot-Bults. Oxford
University Press, London. pp. 55-60.
- Childress,
J. J. & E. V. Thuesen, 1992. Metabolic potential of deep-sea animals:
Regional and global scales. In Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon
Cycle, edited by G. Rowe & V. Pariente, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordecht, pp. 217-236.
- Lee,
R. W., E. V. Thuesen, J. J. Childress & C. R. Fisher, 1992. Ammonium and
free amino acid uptake by a deep-sea mussel (Bathymodiolis sp., undescribed)
containing methanotrophic bacterial symbionts. Marine Biology, 113:
99-106.
- Lee,
R. W., E. V. Thuesen & J. J. Childress, 1992. Ammonium and free amino
acids as nitrogen sources for the chemoautotrophic symbiosis Solemya reidi
Bernard (Bivalvia: Protobranchia). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology
and Ecology, 158: 75-91.
- Thuesen,
E. V., 1993. Vampyrocrossota childressi, a new genus and species of
black medusa from the bathypelagic zone off California (Cnidaria: Trachymedusae:
Rhopalonematidae). Proceedings
of the Biological Society of Washington,
106: 190-194.
- Thuesen,
E. V. & J. J. Childress, 1993. Metabolic rates, enzyme activities and
chemical compositions of some deep-sea pelagic worms, particularly Nectonemertes
mirabilis (Nemertea; Hoplonemertinea) and Poeobius meseres (Annelida;
Polychaeta). Deep-Sea
Research,
40: 937-951.
- Childress,
J. J. & E. V. Thuesen, 1993. Effects of hydrostatic pressure on the metabolic
rates of six species of deep-sea gelatinous zooplankton. Limnology
and Oceanography,
38: 665-670.
- Thuesen,
E. V. & J. J. Childress, 1993. Enzymatic activities and metabolic
rates of pelagic chaetognaths: Lack of depth-related declines. Limnology
and Oceanography,
38: 935-948.
- Thuesen,
E. V., K. Numachi & T. Nemoto, 1993. Genetic variation in the planktonic
chaetognaths Parasagitta elegans and Eukrohnia hamata. Marine
Ecology Progress Series,
101: 243-251.
- Thuesen,
E. V. & J. J. Childress, 1994. Respiratory rates and metabolic enzyme
activities of oceanic California medusae in relation to body size and habitat
depth.
Biological Bulletin, 187: 84-98.
- Childress,
J. J. & E. V. Thuesen, 1995. Metabolic potentials of deep-sea fishes:
a comparative approach. In Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology of Fishes, Vol. 5, edited by P. W. Hochachka
& T. P. Mommsen, Elsevier, pp. 175-196.
- Seibel,
B. A., E. V. Thuesen, J. J. Childress & L. A. Gorodezky, 1997. Sharp
decline in pelagic cephalopod metabolism with habitat depth reflects changes
in locomotory efficiency. Biological
Bulletin, 192: 262-278.
- Thuesen,
E. V, C. B. Miller & J. J. Childress, 1998. Ecophysiological interpretation
of oxygen consumption rates and enzymatic activities of deep-sea copepods.
Marine
Ecology Progress Series, 168: 95-107.
- Seibel,
B. A., E. V. Thuesen & J. J. Childress, 1998. Flight of the vampire: ontogenetic
gait-transition in Vampyroteuthis
infernalis (Cephalopoda: Vampyromorpha). Journal
of Experimental Biology, 201: 2413-2424.
- Fernández-Álamo,
M. A. & E. V. Thuesen, 1999. Polychaeta. pp. 595-619. In, South
Atlantic Zooplankton, edited by D. Boltovskoy, Backhuys
Publishers, Leiden.
- Seibel,
B.A., E.V. Thuesen & J.J. Childress, 2000. Light-limitation on predator-prey
interactions: Consequences for metabolism and locomotion of deep-sea cephalopods.
Biological Bulletin, 198: 284-298
- Thuesen,
E.V., 2003. Crossota millsae (Cnidaria: Trachymedusae: Rhopalonematidae),
a new species of viviparous hydromedusa from the deep sea off California and
Hawaii. Zootaxa,
309: 1-12
- Seibel,
B.A., S.K. Goffredi, E.V. Thuesen, J.J. Childress & B.H. Robison, 2004.
Ammonium content and buoyancy in midwater cephalopods. Journal
of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology,
313: 375-387.
- Thuesen,
E.V., K.D. McCullough & J.J. Childress, 2005. Metabolic enzyme activities
in swimming muscle of medusae: Is the scaling of glycolytic activity related
to oxygen availability? Journal
of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
85: 603-611.
- Thuesen,
E.V., L.D. Rutherford & P.L. Brommer, 2005. The role of aerobic metabolism
and intragel oxygen in hypoxia tolerance of three ctenophores: Pleurobrachia
bachei, Bolinopsis infundibulum and Mnemiopsis leidyi.
Journal
of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
85: 627-633.
- Gibbons,
M.J., A.J. Richardson, M.V. Angel, E. Buecher, G. Esnal, M.A. Fernández-Álamo,
R. Gibson, H. Itoh, P. Pugh, R. Boettger-Schnack & E.V. Thuesen, 2005.
What determines the likelihood of species discovery in marine holozooplankton:
is size, range or depth important? Oikos
109: 567-576.
- Rutherford,
L.D. & E.V. Thuesen, 2005. Metabolic performance and survival of medusae
in estuarine hypoxia. Marine
Ecology Progress Series.
294: 189-200.
- Thuesen,
E.V., L.D. Rutherford, P.L. Brommer, K. Garrison, M.A. Gutowska & T. Towanda,
2005. Intragel oxygen promotes hypoxia tolerance of scyphomedusae. Journal
of Experimental Biology,
208: 2475-2482.
- Towanda,
T. & E.V. Thuesen, 2006. Ectosymbiotic behavior of Cancer gracilis
and its trophic relationships with its host Phacellophora camtschatica
and the parasitoid Hyperia medusarum.
Marine Ecology Progress Series. 315: 221-236.
- Thuesen,
E.V. 2007. Chaetognatha. In The
Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to
Oregon, edited by J.T. Carlton. University of California Press, Berkeley,
p 905-908
- Company, J.B., E.V. Thuesen, J.J. Childress,
G. Rotllant, F. Zal (2008) Effects of food deprivation on enzymatic activities
of the Mediterranean deep-sea crab Geryon longipes A. Milne-Edwards,
1882 and the Pacific hydrothermal vent crab, Bythograea thermydron
Williams, 1980 (Decapoda, Brachyura). Crustaceana
81: 67-85.
- Childress,
J.J., B.A. Seibel & E.V. Thuesen, 2008. N-specific metabolic data are
not relevant to the 'visual interactions' hypothesis concerning the depth-related
declines in metabolic rates: comment on Ikeda et al. (2006).
Marine Ecology Progress Series 373: 187-191.
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