Rex Dunham

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• International Association of Genetics in Aquaculture
• World Aquaculture Society

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Alumni Professor, Auburn University
• recipient of the Catfish Farmers of America Distinguished Research Award
• first to produce a transgenic fish in the United States. The paper resulting from that work was recognized as one of the top 5 papers by the American Fisheries Society in 1987.
• research recognized and recorded in the US Congressional Record.
• Chairman and keynote address for the Genetics Section of Aquaculture Genetics in the Third Millenium, Bangkok,Thailand, 2000
• Invited Speaker, 4th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production 1990. Edinburgh, Scotland
• Invited Speaker, 3rd World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production 1986, Lincoln, Nebraska

My primary research interest is the genetic improvement of catfish. The areas and related areas within catfish genetics include selective breeding, hybridization, gene transfer, gene mapping and genomics and reproductive physiology.

PUBLICATIONS

• NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2014 Sex-ratio-biasing constructs for the control of invasive lower vertebrates
• AQUACULTURE — 2013 Osteological and histopathological details of unilateral microphthalmia and anophthalmia in juvenile common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
• NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE — 2011 Broodstock Selection Criteria for Induced Spawning of Channel Catfish for the Production of Channel × Blue Catfish Hybrid Fry and the Influence of Temperature
• AQUACULTURE NUTRITION — 2010 Influence of forage fish and dietary supplements on egg quality and fry production in channel catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus )x blue catfish ( Ictalurus furcatus ) hybridization
• JOURNAL OF THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY — 2009 Effects of Varying Dietary Protein Levels and Feeding Frequencies on Condition and Reproductive Performance of Channel Catfish to Produce Hybrid Catfish
• COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES — 2009 Transgenic fish resistant to infectious diseases, their risk and prevention of escape into the environment and future candidate genes for disease transgene manipulation
• AQUACULTURE — 2009 Development of repressible sterility to prevent the establishment of feral populations of exotic and genetically modified animals
• NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE — 2009 Effect of Postmanufacturing Processing and Shipping of Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone Analog on Induced Ovulation for Production of Channel Catfish Female 3 Blue Catfish Male Hybrid Fry
• MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY — 2008 Microarray analysis of gene expression in the blue catfish liver reveals early activation of the MHC class I pathway after infection with Edwardsiella ictaluri
• DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY — 2007 Expression analysis of the acute phase response in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) after infection with a Gram-negative bacterium
• AQUACULTURE — 2007 Effects of temperature on the induced spawning of channel catfish and the production of channel×blue catfish hybrid fry
• THE ISRAELI JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE BAMIDGEH — 2006 Transgenic Fish – Where We Are and Where Do We Go?
• AQUACULTURE — 2006 Comparison of domestic and wild channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) populations provides no evidence for genetic impact
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2004 Alterations in Gene Expression in the Brain of White Catfish (Ameiurus catus) in Response to Cold Acclimation
• BOOK (AUTHORED) — 2004 Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology Genetic Approaches
• AQUACULTURE — 2003 Assessing genetic diversity of domestic
• AQUACULTURE — 2003 Dress-out and fillet yields of channel catfish, blue catfish, and their F1, F2 and backcross hybrids
• AQUACULTURE — 2003 Response to three generations of selection for increased body weight in channel catfish grown in earthen ponds
• GENETICS — 2003 An AFLP-Based Genetic Linkage Map of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
• SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST — 2003 DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT USE, AND GENETICS OF TULOTOMA MAGNIFICA (GASTROPODA:VIVIPARIDAE)
• (BOOK CHAPTER) AQUATIC GENOMICS – STEPS TOWARD A GREAT FUTURE — 2003 Gene Mapping,lsolation and Genetic Improvement in Catfish
• AQUACULTURE — 2002 Comparative growth of Egyptian tilapias in response to declining water temperature
• BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA — 2002 Molecular characterization and differential expression of the myostatin
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2002 Enhanced bacterial disease resistance of transgenic channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, possessing cecropin genes
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2002 Expression Profile of the Channel Catfish Spleen: Analysis of Genes Involved in Immune Functions
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2002 Survival of F2 Transgenic common carp containing pRSVrtGH1 complementary DNA when subjected to low dissolved oxygen
• MOLECULAR GENETIC GENOMICS — 2002 Differential gene expression in the brain of channel catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus) in response to cold acclimation
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2002 Effects of Rainbow trout growth hormone complementary DNA on body shape, carcass yield, and carcass composition of F1 and F2 transgenic common carp
• AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM — 2002 A Comparison of First and Third Year Growth of Two Strains of Largemouth Bass in South Carolina
• ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF GAME AND FISH AGENCIES — 2002 Biochemical Genetics of Brook Trout: Management Implications in Georgia
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2001 Influence of Environmental Salinity on Messenger RNA Levels of Growth Hormone, Prolactin, and Somatolactin in Pituitary of the Channel Catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus)
• REVIEWS IN FISHERIES SCIENCE — 2001 Present and future trends in the U.S. catfish industry: strtegies and concerns for millennium years
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES — 2001 Genetic Analysis of Ozark Hellbenders Utilizing RAPD Markers
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES — 2001 Biochemical Genetics of BrookTrout in Georgia: Management Implications
• TECHNICAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON AQUACULTURE IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM — 2001 Review of the Status of Aquaculture Genetics
• GENE — 2000 The skeletal muscle a-actin gene of channel catfish (Ictalurus)
• GENE — 2000 Transcriptome analysis of channel cat
• NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE — 2000 Comparison of Manual Stripping and Pen Spawning for Production of Channel Catfish 3 Blue Catfish Hybrids and Aquarium Spawning of Channel Catfish
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 2000 Reproduction among Channel Catfish, Blue Catfish, and Their F1 and F2 Hybrids
• AQUACULTURE — 1999 Random amplified polymorphic DNA markers:
• BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS — 1999 Transcribed Dinucleotide Microsatellites and Their
• FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY — 1999 Characterization of nonautonomous Tc1-like transposable elements of
• JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES — 1999 Effects of cecropin peptides on bacteria pathogenic to fish
• JOURNAL OF HEREDITY — 1999 High levels of conservation at microsatellite loci among Ictalurid catfishes
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 1999 Development of Polymorphic EST Markers Suitable for Genetic Linkage Mapping of Catfish
• MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY — 1999 Predator Avoidance of Transgenic Channel Catfish Containing Salmonid Growth Hormone Genes
• NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE — 1999 Effects of Fertilization Method and of Selection for Body Weight and Species on Fertilization Efficiency of Channel Catfish Eggs with Blue or Channel Catfish Sperm
• NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE — 1999 Growth, Carcass Traits, and Oxygen Tolerance of Diploid and Triploid Catfish Hybrids
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1999 Development of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) Markers Suitable for Genetic Linkage Mapping of Catfish
• REVIEWS IN FISHERIES SCIENCE — 1999 Hybrid fertility, introgression and backcrossing in fish
• JOURNAL OF THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY — 1999 Effects of Seasonal Variations, Thyroid and Steroid Hormones, and Carp Pituitary Extract on the Artificial Production of Channel Catfish Zctalurus punctatus X Blue Catfish I. furcatus Hybrids
• MOLECULAR ECOLOGY — 1999 Polymorphic microsatellite markers in Ictalurus punctatus and related catfish species
• MOLECULAR AND GENERAL GENETICS — 1998 Inheritance and usefulness of AFLP markers in channel cat
• MOLECULAR MARINE BIOLOGY BIOTECHNOLOGY — 1998 Characterization of an A/T-rich family of sequences from channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1998 Seinability of Channel Catfish, Blue Catfish, and Their F1, F2, F3, and Backcross Hybrids in Earthen Ponds
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1998 The Effect of the Absence or Presence of Channel Catfish Males on Induced Ovulation of Channel Catfish Females for Artificial Fertilization with Blue Catfish Sperm
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1998 Cryopreservation of Blue Catfish Spermatozoa and Subsequent Fertilization of Channel Catfish Eggs
• ANIMAL GENETICS — 1998 Inheritance of RAPD markers in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), blue catfish (I. furcatus), and their F1, F2 and backcross hybrids
• JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY — 1998 Transcriptional activities in the pituitaries of channel catfish before and after induced ovulation by injection of carp pituitary extract as revealed by expressed sequence tag analysis
• CIRCULAR — 1998 Genetic linkage and QTL mapping of ictalurid catfish
• FISHERIES RESEARCH — 1997 Angling vulnerability of black crappies, white crappies, and their naturally produced hybrid in Weiss Reservoir, Alabama, USA
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1997 Symmetrical Hybridization between Black Crappie and White Crappie in an Alabama Reservoir Based on Analysis of the Cytochrome-b Gene
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE AQUACULTURE SPECIES GENOME MAPPING WORKSHOP — 1997
• REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN CATFISH GENE MAPPING
• THERIOGENOLOGY — 1996 Effects of sperm concentration and egg number on fertilization efficiency with channel catfish eggs and blue catfish spermatozoa
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1996 Hatching Time and Early Growth of Age-0 Black Crappies, White Crappies, and Their Naturally Produced F, Hybrids in Weiss Lake, Alabama
• AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST — 1996 Natural Hybridization between back and white crappie ( Pomoxis ) in 10 Alabama Reservoirs
• AQUATIC LIVING RESOURCES VOL. 9 Selection, hybridization and genome manipulation in Siluroidei
• AQUACULTURE — 1995 Body composition of transgenic common carp, Cyprinus carpio, containing rainbow trout growth hormone gene
• NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT — 1995 Failure of Quantitative Phenotypic Characteristics to Distinguish Black Crappie, White Crappie, and Their First-Generation Hybrid
• AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM — 1995 Distribution Largemouth Bass Genotypes of in South Carolina: Initial Implications
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1994 Hybridization and Biochemical Genetics of Black and White Crappies in the Southeastern USA
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1994 Natural Hybridization between Black Crappie and White Crappie in Weiss Lake, Alabama
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1993 Observations on Controlled Artificial Spawning of Channel Catfish
• NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT — 1992 Introgression of the Florida Largemouth Bass Genome into Native Populations in Alabama Public Lakes
• MOLECULAR MARINE BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY — 1992 Transfer, expression, and inheritance of salmonid growth hormone genes in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, and effects on performance traits
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1991 Lack of Inheritance of Stumpbody and Taillessness in Channel Catfish
• AQUACULTURE — 1991 Survival and integration rate of channel catfish and common carp embryos microinjected with DNA at various developmental stages
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1991 Factors Affecting Survival of Channel Catfish after Surgical Removal of Testes
• REVIEWS IN AQUATIC SCIENCES — 1990 Production and use of monosex or sterile fishes in aquaculture
• MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT — 1990 Gene Transfer, Expression and Inheritance of pRSV-Rainbow Trout-GH cDNA in the Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus)
• AQUACULTURE — 1990
• Genotype-Environment Interactions for Growth of Blue, Channel and Hybrid Catfish in Ponds and Cages at Varying Densities
• AQUACULTURE — 1988 Isozyme expression in bighead carp, silver carp and their reciprocal hybrids
• AQUACULTURE — 1988 Reproductive performance of three strains of Oreochromis niloticus
• CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES — 1988 Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphism of Striped Bass in the Southeastern United States
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1987 Comparison of Mass Selection, Crossbreeding, and Hybridization for Improving Growth of Channel Catfish
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1987 Transfer of the Metallothionein-Human Growth Hormone Fusion Gene into Channel Catfish
• CIRCULAR — 1987 Economic Analysis of channel catfish egg, fry, fingerling and food fish production in Alabama
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON SELECTION, HYBRIDIZATION AND GENETIC ENGINEERING IN AQUACULTURE — 1987 American catfish breeding programs
• SOUTHERN COOPERATIVE SERIES BULLETIN — 1987 Genetics and Breeding of Catfish
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND GAMES AGENCIES — 1987 Induction of Polyploidy with Hydrostatic Pressure in Striped Bass, White Bass, and Their Hybrids
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1986 Biochemical Genetics of Largemouth Bass in Mesosaline and Freshwater Areas of the Alabama River System
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1986 Selection or Drift–Isozyme Allele Frequency Changes among Channel Catfish Selected for Rapid Growth
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD WORLD CONGRESS ON GENETICS APPLIED TO LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION — 1986 Selection and crossbreeding responses for cultured fish
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND GAME AGENCIES — 1986 Biochemical Genetics of Largemouth Bass Populations in Alabama
• AQUACULTURE — 1986 Comparison of Strains, Crossbreeds and Hybrids of Channel Catfish for Vulnerability to Angling
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1985 Evaluation of Body Conformation, Composition, and Density as Traits for Indirect Selection for Dress-out Percentage of Channel Catfish
• CIRCULAR — 1985 Improved Growth Rate, Reproductive Performance, and Disease Resistance of Crossbred and Selected Catfish from AU-M and AU-K Lines
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1984 Reproductive Efficiency in the Reciprocal Pairings Between Two Strains of Channel Catfish
• COPEIA — 1984 Karyology of three species of catfishes ( Ictaluridae: Ictalurus ) and four hybrid combinations
• CIRCULAR — 1984 Ancestry and Breeding of Catfish in the United States
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND GAME AGENCIES — 1984 Comparisons of Hemoglobins and Hematocrits of Blue, Brown Bullhead, Channel, White, Crossbred, and Hybrid Catfishes
• TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY — 1983 Reproductive Performances of Crossbred and Pure-Strain Channel Catfish Brood Stocks
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1983 Relative tolerance of channel x blue hybrid and channel catfish to low oxygen concentrations
• ANR – CIRCULAR — 1983 Producing Channel Catfish Fingerlings
• FISHELSON, L AND YARON, Z., COMPLIERS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TILAPIA IN AQUACULTURE, NAZARETH, ISRAEL — 1983
• REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS FOR THREE YEAR CLASSES OF TILAPIA NILOTICA AND MATERNAL EFFECTS ON THEIR PROGENY
• AQUACULTURE — 1983
• RESPONSE TO SELECTION AND REALIZED HERITABILITY FOR BODY WEIGHT IN THREE STRAINS OF CHANNEL CATFISH, ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS, GROWN IN EARTHEN PONDS
• AQUACULTURE — 1983
• REVIEW OF CATFISH BREEDING RESEARCH 1969-1981 AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY
• JOURNAL OF THE WORLD MARICULTURE SOCIETY — 1983
• CORRELATIONS AMONG MORPHOMETRIC TRAITS OF FINGERLING CATFISHES AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO DRESSING PERCENTAGE AT HARVEST
• CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES — 1982 Effects of selecting for growth rate on reproduction performance in channel catfish
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1982 Sex-weight relations in blue, channel, and white catfishes: implications for brood stock selection
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND GAMES AGENCIES — 1982 Length Variation in Species and Hybrid Populations of Blue, Channel, and White Catfishes
• AQUACULTURE — 1982
• PATERNAL PREDOMINANCE IN RECIPROCAL CHANNEL-BLUE HYBRID CATFISH
• JOURNAL OF THE WORLD MARICULTURE SOCIETY — 1982
• COMMUNAL STOCKING AND MULTIPLE REARING TECHNIQUE FOR CATFISH GENETICS RESEARCH
• PROGRESSIVE FISH CULTURIST — 1981 Growth in Response to Winter Feeding of Blue, Channel, White, and Hybrid Catfishes
• 114 RECORDS TOTAL