Paul L. Klerks - Publications

Publications from the lab of Dr. Paul L. Klerks. Please contact me (klerks@louisiana.edu) for reprints or PDF files of these publications.

• Martin, S.B., A.T. Hitch, K.M. Purcell, P.L. Klerks & P.L. Leberg.  2009.  Life history variation along a salinity gradient in coastal marshes.  Aquat. Biol. 8: 15-28.
  
• Klerks, P.L. & M.A. Blaha. 2009.  Heat tolerance as an indicator of climate change impacts: General considerations and a case study in Poeciliid fish. Environ. Bioindic. 4: 46-66.
  
• Heimann, K., P.L. Klerks & K.H. Hasenstein. 2009. Involvement of actin and microtubules in regulation of bioluminescence and translocation of chloroplasts in the dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula. Bot. Mar. 52: 170-177.
• Purcell, K.M., A.T. Hitch, P.L. Klerks & P.L. Leberg. 2008. Adaptation as a potential response to sea-level rise: A genetic basis for salinity tolerance in populations of a coastal marsh fish. Evolut. Applic. 1: 155-160.
• Giridhar Athrey, N. R., P.L. Leberg & P.L. Klerks. 2007. Laboratory culturing and selection for increased resistance to cadmium reduce genetic variation in the least killifish, Heterandria formosa. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 26: 1916-1921.
• Nyman, J.A., P.L. Klerks, and S. Bhattacharyya. 2007. Effects of chemical additives on hydrocarbon disappearance and biodegradation in freshwater marsh microcosms. Environ. Pollut. 149: 227-238.
• Klerks, P.L., D.L. Felder, K. Strasser, and P.W. Swarzenski. 2007. Effects of ghost shrimp on zinc and cadmium in sediments from Tampa Bay, FL. Mar. Chem. 104:17-26.
• Elderkin, C.L., and P.L. Klerks. 2005. Variation in thermal tolerance among three Mississippi River populations of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha. J. Shellfish Res. 24: 221-226.
• Elderkin, C.L, E.J. Perkins, P.L. Leberg, P.L. Klerks, and R.F. Lance. 2004. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis of the genetic structure of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, in the Mississippi River. Freshwat. Biol. 49: 1487-1494.
• Elderkin, C.L., J.A. Stoeckel, D.J. Berg, and P.L. Klerks. 2004. Heritability of heat tolerance in zebra mussel veligers. J. Great Lakes Res. 30: 360-366.
• Xie, L., and P.L. Klerks. 2004. Fitness costs of resistance to cadmium in the least killifish (Heterandria formosa). Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23: 1499-1503.
• Klerks, P.L., J.A. Nyman, and S. Bhattacharyya. 2004. Relationship between hydrocarbon measurements and toxicity to a chironomid, fish larva and daphnid for oils and oil spill chemical treatments in laboratory freshwater marsh microcosms. Environ. Pollut. 129: 345-353.
• Xie, L., and P.L. Klerks. 2004. Changes in cadmium accumulation as a mechanism for cadmium resistance in the least killifish Heterandria formosa. Aquat. Toxicol. 66: 73-81.
• Xie, L., and P.L. Klerks. 2004. Metallothionein-like protein in the least killifish Heterandria formosa and its role in cadmium resistance. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23: 173-177.
• Craig, J.M., P.L. Klerks, K. Heimann and J.L. Waits. 2003. Effects of salinity, pH and temperature on re-establishment of bioluminescence and copper or SDS toxicity in the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula using bioluminescence as an endpoint. Environ. Pollut. 125: 267-275.
• Xie, L. and P.L. Klerks. 2003. Responses to selection for cadmium resistance in the least killifish Heterandria formosa. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 22: 313-320.
• Bhattacharyya, S., P.L. Klerks and J.A. Nyman. 2003. Toxicity to freshwater organisms form oils and oil spill chemical treatments in laboratory microcosms. Environ. Pollut. 122: 205-215.
• Klerks, P.L. 2002. Adaptation, ecological impacts and risk assessment: Insights from research at Foundry Cove, Bayou Trepagnier and Pass Fourchon. Human Ecol. Risk. Assessm. 8: 971-982.
• Millward, R.N. and P.L. Klerks. 2002. Contaminant-adaptation and community tolerance in ecological risk assessment: Introduction. Human Ecol. Risk. Assessm. 8: 921-932.
• Heimann, K., J.M. Matuszewski and P.L. Klerks. 2002. Effects of metals and organic contaminants on the recovery of bioluminescence in the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula (Dinophyceae). J. Phycol. 38: 482-492.
• Klerks, P.L. 2001. Elegance in scientific research: A biologist's perspective. Pp. 20-26. In: Elegance. Beauty & Truth. L. Pyenson (Ed.). Center for Louisiana Studies, Lafayette, LA.
• Elderkin, C.L., P.L. Klerks and E. Theriot. 2001. Shifts in allele and genotype frequencies in zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, along the latitudinal gradient formed by the Mississippi River. J. Nrd. Am. Benthol. Soc. 20: 595-605.
• Klerks P.L. and C.J. Moreau. 2001. Heritability of resistance to individual contaminants and to contaminant mixtures in the sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus). Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 20: 1746-1751.
• Lewis, S.S., P.L. Klerks and P.L. Leberg. 2001. Relationship between allozyme genotype and sensitivity to stressors in the western mosquitofish Gambusia affinis detected for elevated temperature but not for mercury. Aquat. Toxicol. 52: 205-216.
• Mitra, S., P.L. Klerks, T.S. Bianchi, J. Means and K.R. Carman. 2000. Effects of estuarine organic matter biogeochemistry on the bioaccumulation of PAHs by two epibenthic species. Estuaries 23: 864-876.
• Venable, D.L., A.P. Gaudé III and P.L. Klerks. 2000. Control of the trematode Bolbophorus confusus in channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus ponds using salinity manipulation and polyculture with black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus. J. World Aquac. Soc. 31: 158-166.
• Levinton, J., P. Klerks, D. Martinez, C. Montero, C. Sturmbauer, L. Suatoni and W. Wallace. 1999. Running the gauntlet: Pollution, evolution and reclamation of an estuarine bay. Pp. 125-138. In: Aquatic Life Cycle Strategies: Survival in a Variable Environment. M. Whitfield, J. Mathews and C. Reynolds (Eds.) Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth.
• Klerks, P.L. 1999. Acclimation to contaminants by the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio: individual contaminants vs. mixtures. Ecotoxicology 8: 277-286.
• Adams, G.G., P.L. Klerks, S.E. Belanger and D. Dantin. 1999. The effect of the oil dispersant Omni-Clean on the toxicity of fuel oil no. 2 in two bioassays with the sheepshead minnow Cyprinodon variegatus. Chemosphere 39: 2141-2157.
• Deeds, J.R. and P.L. Klerks. 1999. Metallothionein-like proteins in the freshwater oligochaete Limnodrilus udekemianus and their role as a homeostatic mechanism against cadmium toxicity. Environ. Pollut. 106: 381-389.
• Moreau, C., P.L. Klerks and C.N. Haas. 1999. The interaction between phenanthrene and zinc in toxicity to the sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus). Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 37: 251-257.
• Klerks, P.L. 1998. The influence of contamination complexity on adaptation to environmental contaminants. Pp. 103-121, In: Genetics and Ecotoxicology. V. Forbes (Ed.). Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia.
• Moore, M.K. and P.L. Klerks. 1998. Interactive effect of high temperature and low pH on sodium flux in tadpoles. J. Herpetol. 32: 588-592.
• Klerks, P.L. and S.A. Lentz. 1998. Resistance to lead and zinc in the western mosquitofish Gambusia affinis inhabiting contaminated Bayou Trepagnier. Ecotoxicology 7: 11-17.
• Klerks, P.L., P.L. Leberg, R.F. Lance, D. J. McMillin and J. C. Means. 1997. Lack of development of pollutant-resistance or genetic differentiation in darter gobies (Gobionellus boleosoma) inhabiting a produced-water discharge site. Mar. Environ. Res. 44: 377-395.
• Klerks, P.L., P.C. Fraleigh and J.E. Lawniczak. 1997. Effects of the exotic zebra mussel on metal cycling in Lake Erie. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 54: 1630-1638.
• Klerks, P.L. and P.C. Fraleigh. 1997. Uptake of nickel and zinc by the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 32: 191-197.
• Klerks, P.L., P.C. Fraleigh and J.E. Lawniczak. 1996. Effects of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on seston levels and sediment deposition in western Lake Erie. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53: 2284-2291.
• Rabalais, N.N., Q. Dortch, D. Justic', M.B. Kilgen, P.L. Klerks, P.H. Templet, R.E. Turner, B. Cole, D. Duet, M. Beacham, S. Lentz, M. Parsons, S. Rabalais, and R. Robichaux. 1995. Status and trends of eutrophication, pathogen contamination, and toxic substances in the Barataria and Terrebonne Estuarine System. BTNEP Publ. No. 22, Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, Thibodaux, Louisiana, 265 pp. plus appendices.
• Klerks, P.L. and J.S. Levinton. 1993. Evolution of resistance and changes in community-composition in metal-polluted environments: A case-study on Foundry Cove. Pp. 223-241, In: Ecotoxicology of Metals in Invertebrates. R. Dallinger and P.S. Rainbow (Eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Fraleigh, P.C., P.L. Klerks, G. Gubanich, G. Matisoff and R.C. Stevenson. 1993. Abundance and settling of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha ) veligers in western and central Lake Erie. Pp. 129-142, In: Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts and Control. T.F. Nalepa and D.W. Schloesser (Eds.). Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.
• Klerks, P.L. , P.C. Fraleigh and R.C. Stevenson. 1993. Controlling zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha ) veligers with three oxidizing chemicals: chlorine, permanganate, and peroxide + iron. Pp. 621-641, In: Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts and Control. T.F. Nalepa and D.W. Schloesser (Eds.). Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.
• Roesijadi, G., M.M. Vestling, C.M. Murphy, P.L. Klerks and C.C. Fenselau. 1991. Structure and time dependent behavior of acetylated and nonacetylated forms of a molluscan metallothionein. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1074: 230-236.
• Lemma, A., L. Wolde-Yohannes, P.C. Fraleigh, P.L. Klerks and H.H. Lee. 1991. Endod is lethal to zebra mussels and inhibits their attachment. J. Shellfish Res. 10: 361-365.
• Klerks, P.L. and P.C. Fraleigh. 1991. Controlling adult zebra mussels with oxidants. Journal AWWA 83: 92-100.
• Fraleigh, P.C., G. Matisoff, G. Gubanich, G.L. Hoffman, P.L. Klerks, P.L. McCall, R.C. Stevenson, and M.E. Wenning. 1991. AWWA Zebra mussel research project results. Pp. 103-117, In: Proceedings of the American Water Works Association Annual Conference, June 23-27, Philadelphia.
• Klerks, P.L. and P.R. Bartholomew. 1991. Cadmium accumulation and detoxification in a Cd-resistant population of the oligochaete Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri. Aquat. Toxicol. 19: 97-112.
• Matisoff, G., P. Fraleigh, A.B. Greenberg, G. Gubanich, G.L. Hoffman, P.L. Klerks, P.L. McCall, R.C. Stevenson, W. Van Cott, and M.E. Wenning. 1991. Controlling zebra mussels at water treatment plant intakes. I. Lake Erie veliger densities. Pp. 79-89, In: Proceedings of American Water Resources Association Spring Symposium "Surface and Groundwater Quality", February 24-27, Cleveland.
• Matisoff, G., P. Fraleigh, A.B. Greenberg, G. Gubanich, G.L. Hoffman, P.L. Klerks, P.L. McCall, R.C. Stevenson, W. Van Cott, and M.E. Wenning. 1990. Controlling zebra mussels at water treatment plant intakes. II. Veliger dose/response static tests. Pp. 59-70, In: Proceedings of the EPRI International Macrofouling Symposium, December 4-6, Orlando.
• Klerks, P.L. and J.S. Levinton. 1989. Effects of heavy metals in a polluted aquatic ecosystem. Pp. 41-67, In: Ecotoxicology: Problems and Approaches, S.A. Levin, M.A. Harwell, J.R. Kelly and K.D. Kimball (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York.
• Roesijadi, G., S. Kielland and P. Klerks. 1989. Purification and properties of novel molluscan metallothioneins. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 273: 403-413.
• Klerks, P.L. and J.S. Levinton. 1989. Rapid evolution of metal resistance in a benthic oligochaete inhabiting a metal-polluted site. Biol. Bull. 176: 135-141
• Roesijadi, G. and P.L. Klerks. 1989. A kinetic analysis of Cd-binding to metallothionein and other intracellular ligands in oyster gills. J. Exp. Zool. 251: 1-12.
• Klerks, P.L. 1989. Adaptation to metals in animals. Pp. 313-321, In: Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants: Evolutionary Aspects, A.J. Shaw (Ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Klerks, P.L. and J.S. Weis. 1987. Genetic adaptation to heavy metals in aquatic organisms: a review. Environ. Pollut. 45: 173-205.
• Knutson, A.B., P.L. Klerks and J.S. Levinton. 1987. The fate of metal contaminated sediments in Foundry Cove, New York. Environ. Pollut. 45: 291-304.
• Ferson, S., P. Downey, P. Klerks, M. Weissburg, I. Kroot, S. Stewart, G. Jaquez, J. Ssemakula, R. Malenky and K. Anderson. 1986. Competing reviews, or Why do Connell and Schoener disagree? Am. Nat. 127: 571-576.
• Van Noordwijk, A.J. and P.L. Klerks. 1983. Heritability of bill dimensions in the Great Tit. Institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Progress Report 1982, Verh. K. Ned. Akad. Wet. Afd. Natuurk. Tweede Reeks 81: 7-12.

Contact information: Dr. Paul L. Klerks, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Box 42451, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA. E-mail: klerks@louisiana.edu 

Department Website 

University Website