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Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences 15 January 2019 Publications of the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences 15 January 2019 0001 Vernberg, F. J. and W. B. Vernberg (1969). Thermal influence on invertebrate respiration. Chesapeake Science.10(3&4): 234-240. 0002 Caldwell, R. and F. J. Vernberg (1970). The influence of acclimation temperature on the lipid composition of fish gill mitochondria. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. 34: 179-191. 0003 Coull, B. C. and W. B. Vernberg (1970). Harpacticoid copepod respiration: Enhydrosoma propinquum and Longipedia helgolandica . Marine Biology. 5(4): 341-344. 0004 Queen, W. H. (1970). The culture of salt marsh grasses in a defined liquid solution (Abstract of talk). Plant Physiology. 46: 11. 0005 Sizemore, R. K. and L. H. Stevenson (1970). Method for the isolation of proteolytic marine bacteria. Applied Microbiology. 20(6): 991-992. 0006 Vernberg, F. J. and W. B. Vernberg (1970). Lethal limits and the zoogeography of the faunal assemblages of coastal Carolina waters. Marine Biology. 6: 26-32. 0007 Vernberg, F. J. and W. B. Vernberg (1970). Aquatic invertebrates. Comparative Physiology of Thermoregulation. New York, Academic Press. 1: 1-14. 0008 Vernberg, F. J. and W. B. Vernberg (1970). The Animal and the Environment. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 0009 Vernberg, W. B. and F. J. Vernberg (1970). Metabolic diversity in oceanic animals. Marine Biology. 6(1): 33-42. 0010 Meenakshi, V. R., et al. (1970). Ultrastructure, histochemistry, and amino acid composition of the shell of Neopilina . Anton Brun Report #2. Scientific Results of the South Pacific Expedition : 2.3-2.12. 0011 Wall, D., et al. (1970). Calcitic resting cysts in Peridinium trochoideum (Stein) Lemmermann, an autotrophic marine dinoflagellate. Phycologia. 9(2): 151-156. 0012 Zischke, J. A., et al. (1970). Studies on shell formation: Measurement of growth in the gastropod Ampullarius glaucus. Malacologia. 10(2): 423-439. 0013 Zingmark, R. G. (1970). Sexual reproduction in the dinoflagellate Noctiluca miliaris Suriray. Journal of Phycology. 6(2): 122-126. 0014 Zingmark, R. G. (1970). Ultrastructural studies on two kinds of mesocaryotic dinoflagellate nuclei. American Journal of Botany. 57(5): 586-592. 0015 Richards, H. G., et al. (1971). Pleistocene mollusks from boreholes in South Carolina. Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia). 445: 1-11. 0016 Pierce, J. W., et al. (1971). Pyrophyllite and talc in waters off the southeastern United States . Marine Geology. 11: M9-M15. 0017 Davies, T. T. and M. A. Crenshaw (1971). Environmental stress effect on molluscan growth. Journal of Dental Research. 50(6, supple.): 1498-1499. 0018 Fowler, S. W., et al. (1971). Experimental studies on elimination of zinc-65, cesium-137 and cerium-144 by euphausiids Marine Biology. 8(3): 224-231. 0019 Lunetta, J. and W. B. Vernberg (1971). Fatty acid composition of parasitized and nonparasitized tissue of the mud-flat snail, Nassarius obsoleta (Say). Experimental Parasitology. 30: 224-248. 0020 Vernberg, F. J. and W. B. Vernberg (1971). Chemical Ecology: Crustacea. Chemical Zoology. M. Florkin and B. T. Scheer. New York, Academic Press. 6: 347-364. 0021 Vernberg, W. B. and F. J. Vernberg (1971). Respiratory metabolism of a trematode metacercaria and its host. Aspects of the Biology of Symbiosis. T. Cheng. Baltimore, 1 Maryland, University Park Press : 91-102. 0022 Cox, E. R. and R. G. Zingmark (1971). Bibliography on the Pyrrhophyta. Selected Papers of Phycology. J. R. Rosowski and B. C. Parker. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press : 803-808. 0023 Cox, E. R. and R. G. Zingmark (1971). Bibliography on the Cryptophyta. Selected Paper of Phycology. J. R. Rosowski and B. C. Parker. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press : 809-810. 0024 Dame, R. F. (1972). Variations in the caloric value of the American oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Proceedings, National Shellfisheries Association. 62: 86-88. 0025 Dame, R. F. (1972). Comparison of various allometric relationships in intertidal and subtidal American oysters. Fisheries Bulletin. 70(4): 1121-1126. 0026 Dame, R. F. (1972). The ecological energies of growth, respiration, and assimilation in the intertidal American oyster Crassostrea virginica . Marine Biology. 17(3): 243-250. 0027 Davies, T. T., et al. (1972). The effect of temperature on the chemistry and structure of echinoid spine regeneration Journal of Paleontology. 46(6): 874-883. 0028 DeCoursey, P. J. (1972). LD ratios and entrainment of circadian activity in a nocturnal and diurnal rodent . Journal of Comparative Physiology. 78: 221-235. 0029 DeCoursey, P. J. and W. B. Vernberg (1972). Effect of mercury on survival, metabolism, and behavior of larval Uca pugilator . OIKOS. 23: 241-247. 0030 Vernberg, F. J. (1972). Dissolved Gases - Animals. Marine Biology - Environmental Factors. Kinne. New York, John Wiley. 1, Part 3: 1491-1515. 0031 Vernberg, W. B. and F. J. Vernberg (1972). Environmental Physiology of Marine Animals. New York, Springer-Verlag. 0032 Vernberg, W. B. and F. J. Vernberg (1972). The synergistic effects of temperature, salinity, and mercury on the survival and metabolism of the adult fiddler crab, Uca pugilator. Fisheries Bulletin. 70 (2): 415-420. 0033 Zingmark, R. G. (1972). Asexual reproduction in Pyrocystis lunula. Bulletin Soc. Bot. Fr., Memoires. 1972: 213-214. 0034 Cowley, G. T. (1973). Variation in soil fungus populations in a South Carolina salt marsh. Estuarine Microbial Ecology. L. H. Stevenson and R. R. Colwell. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press : 441-454. 0035 Shoemaker, A. H. (1972). Reef molluscs of South Carolina. Nautilus. 85: 114-120. 0036 Shoemaker, A. H. (1973). Thermal and salinity effects on ciliary activity on excised gill tissue from bivalves of North and South Carolina. Veliger. 15(3): 215-222. 0037 Brummett, A. R. and W. B. Vernberg (1972). Oxygen consumption in anterior versus posterior embryonic shield of Fundulus heteroclitus. Biological Bulletin. 143(2): 296-303. 0038 Queen, W. H. (1974). Physiology of coastal halophytes. Ecology of Halophytes. R. J. Reimold and W. H. Queen. New York. , Academic Press: 345-378. 0039 Lunetta, J. (1971). Lipogenes e Acidos Graxos Totalis EM Callinectes sapidus Rathbun 1896 (Siri) Aclimados a Differentes Temepraturas . Estudos Comparativo. Brazil, University of Sao Paulo. 0040 Gardner, L. R. (1973). The effect of hydrological factors on the pore water chemistry of intertidal marsh sediments . Southeastern Geology. 15(1): 17-28. 0041 Dean, J. M. (1973). The response of fish to a modified thermal environment . Responses of Fish to Environmental Change. W. Chavin. Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas Publisher : 33-63. 0042 DeCoursey, P. J. (1973). Free-running rhythms and patterns of circadian entrainment in three species of diurnal rodents . Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research. 4 (1): 67-77. 0043 DeCoursey, P. J. and W. B. Vernberg (1974). Double infections of larval trematodes: 2 Competitive interactions . Symbiosis in the Sea. Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science W. B. Vernberg . Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press. 2: 93-109. 0044 Coull, B. C. (1975). Three new harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea) from the North Inlet Estuary, Georgetown, South Carolina, USA. Crustaceana. 29 (2): 113-126. 0045 Vernberg, F. J. (1972). Genetic and phenotypic plasticity of oceanic invertebrates. Fifth European Marine Biology Symposium. B. Battaglia. Padua, Piccin Editore : 245-257. 0046 Settlemyer, J. L. and L. R. Gardner (1977). Suspended sediment flux through a salt marsh drainage basin . Estuarine Coastal and Marine Science. 5: 653-663. 0047 Billings, W. N., et al. (1978). Movement of PCB from a contaminated reservoir into a drinking water supply. Bulletin Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 19: 215-222. 0048 Vernberg, F. J. (1973). Introduction: The estuarine ecosystem. Estuarine Microbial Ecology. L. H. Stevenson and R. R. Colwell. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press: 3-8. 0049 Vernberg, W. B. (1972). Metabolic-environmental interaction in marine plankton. Fifth European Marine Biology Symposium. B. Battagkia. Padua, Piccin Editore, : 189-196. 0050 Vernberg, W. B. and F. J. Vernberg (1974). Metabolic patterns of a trematode and its hosts: A study in the evolution of physiological responses. Symbiosis in the Sea. W. B. Vernberg. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press. Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science Number 2 161-172. 0051 Vernberg, W. B. (1974). Symbiosis in the Sea. Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press. no. 2. 0052 McKenney, C. and J. M. Dean (1975). Effects of acute exposure to sublethal concentrations of cadmium on the thermal resistance of the mummichog. Thermal Ecology. J. W. Gibbons and R. R. Sharitz , Atomic Energy Commission Symposium Series (CONF 730505). 43-53. 0053 Stephens, D. G. and T. T. Davies (1974). The distribution of Cheilostome bryozoa in a tidal creek system on the South Carolina coast. Southeastern Geology. 16: 107-120. 0054 Andrews, E., et al. (1973). Scouring of buried Pleistocene barrier complexes as a source of channel sands in tidal creeks, North Island Quadrangle, South Carolina . Geolological Society of America Bulletin. 84: 3659-3662. 0055 Zingmark, R. G. and T. G. Miller (1975). Effects of mercury on growth and photosynthesis of estuarine and oceanic phytoplankton. Physiological Ecology of Estuarine Organisms. Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science. F. J. 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