Dr Philip Thomas

Publications

• Thomas, P. M., Carragher, J. F., Goodrick, G. B and. Paterson. B. D (in review) The effect of capture method on the stress response and post-mortem biochemistry of juvenile southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) Castelnau, Aquaculture. 

• Thompson, J.L., Thomas, P.M. and. Schuller, A. (accepted) Purification and Properties of a Glutathione Peroxidase from Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) Liver, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology.

• Dyer, A.R., Barlow, C.G., Bransden, M P. Carter, C. G., Glencross, B. D., Neil Richardson, N., Thomas, P.M., Williams, K.C., Carragher J. F. (2004) Correlation of plasma IGF-I concentrations and growth rate in aquacultured finfish: a tool for assessing the potential of new diets. Aquaculture, 236, (1-4), 583-592, 

• Dyer, A.R., Upton, Z., Stone, D., Thomas, P.M., Soole, K.L., Higgs, N., Quinn, K., and Carragher, J.F. (2003).  Effects of acute and chronic stress on plasma IGF-I concentrations in several finfish species.  General and Comparative Endocrinology.

• Thomas, P.M., Carter, C.G., Carragher, J.F. and Glencross, B.D. (2002) Temporal changes in the blood chemistry of farmed southern bluefin tuna following feeding and subject to repeated sampling disturbance. Aquaculture Research 34(3) 265-267. doi:10. 1046/j.13652109.2003.00812.x

• Thomas, P.M., Bremner, H.A. and Pankhurst, N.W.(2000) Quantitative extraction of nucleotides from frozen muscle samples of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): effects of time taken to sample and extraction method. Journal of Food Biochemistry. 24; 2, 147-159.  

• Thomas, P.M. (1999) The effect of pre-harvest stress on post-mortem muscle biochemistry in cultured Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Ph.D Thesis. Department of Aquaculture, University of Tasmania. pp.175. 

• Thomas, P.M., Pankhurst, N.W. and Bremner, H.A. (1999) The effect of stress and exercise on the post-mortem biochemistry of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout. Journal of Fish Biology. 54, 1197-1196.  

• Pankhurst, N.W. and Thomas, P.M. (1998) Maintenance at elevated temperature delays the steroidogenic and ovulatory responsiveness of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss to luteinizing hormone releasing hormone analogue. Aquaculture. 166,163-177. 

• Pankhurst,. N.W., Purser. G.J., Van Der Kraak. G., Thomas. P.M. and Forteath, G.N.R. 1996. Effect of holding temperature on ovulation, egg fertility, plasma levels of reproductive hormones and in vitro ovarian steroidogenesis in the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Aquaculture. 146: 277-290.

• Carter, C. G., Purser, G. J., Houlihan, D. F. and Thomas, P.M. 1996. The effect of decreased ration on feeding hierarchies in groups of greenback flounder (Rhombosoles tapirina: teleostei). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 76: 505-516.

• Thomas, P.M. 1994. Growth of Atlantic salmon in recirculation systems at controlled and ambient temperature, Masters Dissertation, University of Tasmania. 51p. 

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