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John M. Grizzle
Professor

(334)-844-3474
grizjm@auburn.edu




  • Special Honors & Awards
  • Research
  • Publications
  • Certified Fish Pathologist (American Fisheries Society, 1982; renewed 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002)
  • American Fisheries Society Distinguished Service Award, 1997
  • Research featured on the cover of Veterinary and Comparative Ophthalmology, 1996
  • Research featured on the cover of the Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, 1995
  • Visiting Scientist at Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William and Mary, 1987
  • Listed as an Aquanaut on the Hydrolab exhibit in the Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1986
  • Research featured on the cover of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, November 1984
  • Visiting Scientist at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, 1983 and 1991
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1971-1974


Research areas include fish pathology, physiology, histology, and toxicology.  Interests include both infectious and non-infectious diseases of freshwater and marine species.  A fish disease diagnostic service is provided to the public and to state agencies.

Title Journal Year
First Report of Yersinia ruckeri Biotype 2 in the USA  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  2007 
The Relation of Largemouth Bass Virus to Largemouth Bass Population Metrics in Five Alabama Reservoirs  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  2006 
Evaluation of Cell Culture Methods for Detection of Largemouth Bass Virus   Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  2005 
Evaluation of Unpurified Cell Culture Supernatant as Template for the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) with Largemouth Bass Virus  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  2005 
The Southeastern Cooperative Fish DiseaseProject: 40 Years of Service to theSoutheastern United States  Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies  2005 
Survival of largemouth bass, bluegill and channel catfish embryos after electroshocking  Journal of Fish Biology  2004 
Susceptibility of Ten Fish Species to Electroshock-Induced Mortality  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  2004 
Review of Largemouth Bass Virus  Fisheries - Reviews in Fish Health  2003 
Electroshocking-Induced Injuries in Newly Transformed Juvenile Fish  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  2003 
Lack of Effect of Electroshock on the Susceptibility of Rainbow Trout to Enteric Redmouth Disease  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  2003 
Electroshocking-Induced Mortality of Four Fish Species during Posthatching Development  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  2003 
Effects of Low Salinities on Oxygen Consumption of SelectedEuryhaline and Stenohaline Freshwater Fish  Journal of the World Aquaculture Society  2003 
PCR method for detection of largemouth bass virus  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms  2003 
Growth and hepatic lesions of Nile tilapia  Aquaculture  2002 
Effects of nonylphenol on the gonadal differentiation of the  Aquatic toxicology  2002 
Experimental oral transmission of largemouth bass virus  Journal of fish Diseases  2002 
Use of a Sodium Chloride Refuge to Improve Survival of Larval Morone Species during Transfer to Rearing Ponds  North American Journal of Aquaculture  2002 
A Survey to Detect Largemouth Bass Virus among Fish from Hatcheries in the Southeastern USA  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  2002 
First isolation of largemouth bass virus  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms  2002 
REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF MALE MOSQUITOFISH (GAMBUSIA AFFINIS) INHABITING A SMALL SOUTHEASTERN U.S. RIVER RECEIVING TREATED DOMESTIC SEWAGE EFFLUENT  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry  2002 
Effects of Salinity on Yersinia ruckeri Infection of Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  2001 
Effects of brackish water on growth, feed conversion and energy absorption efficiency by juvenile euryhaline and freshwater stenohaline fishes   Journal of Fish Biology  2001 
Effects of low salinities on Flavobacterium columnare infection of euryhaline and freshwater stenohaline fish  Journal of Fish Diseases  2001 
Detection ofYersinia ruckeri in rainbow trout blood by use of the polymerase chain reaction  Disease if Aquatic Organisms  2001 
Gill lesions and death of bluegill in an acid mine drainage mixing zone  Enviornmental Toxicology and Chemistry  2001 
Comparison of ln-Water Voltage Gradients Produced by Electrofishing Boats  Annual Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies  2001 
Preliminary description of lesions in juvenile largemouth bass injected with largemouth bass virus  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms  2000 
Early Changes in Pigmented Macrophages in Head Kidney of Channel Catfish Infected with Aeromonas hydrophila  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1999 
Effectiveness of Three Barrier Types for Confining Grass Carp in Embayments of Lake Seminole, Georgia  North American Journal of Fisheries Management  1999 
Acute Toxicity of an Acid Mine Drainage Mixing Zone to Juvenile Bluegill and Largemouth Bass  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1999 
Drinking Rates of Stressed One-Month-Old Striped Bass: Effects of Calcium and Low Concentrations of Sodium Chloride  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1999 
Ultrastructure of Leukocytes in Acutely Inflamed Dermis and Muscle of Channel Catfish at Different Temperatures  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1998 
Analysis of the Recreational Fishery and Angler Attitudes Toward Hydrilla in Lake Seminole, a Southeastern Reservoir   Journal of Aquatic Plant Management  1998 
Blood Respiratory Changes in Common Carp Exposed to a Lethal Concentration of Rotenone  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1998 
Growth and body composition of channel catfish  Aquaculture  1997 
Ocular lesions in largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, subjected to the stresses of handling and containment  Veterinary and Comparative Ophthalmology  1997 
Injuries and Serum Enzyme Activities of Fingerling  Aquacultural Engineering  1996 
Effect of cooking on residues of ormetoprim  Food Research International  1996 
An Iridovirus Isolated from Wild Largemouth Bass  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1996 
First Report of Lymphocystis in the Family Gerreidae: Caitipa Mojarras Diaptems rhombeus from La Parguera, Puerto Rico  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1996 
Lymphocystis in Indian Glassfish Chanda ranga Imported from Thailand to Puerto Rico  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1996 
White Grub Posthodiplostomum minimum centrarchi Metacercariae in the Liver of Largemouth Bass: Quantification and Effects on Health   Journal of Aijnatic Animal Health  1996 
Field Trials to Determine the Efficacy of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin for Spawning Walleye  Conference of the Southestern Association of the Fish and Wildlife Agencies  1996 
Potassium flux in juvenile striped bass (Morone saxatilis): influence of external concentrations of sodium chloride and calcium  Fish Physiology and Biochemistry  1996 
Presence of Carcinoembryonic Antigen in Hepatic  Marine Environmental Research  1995 
Effect of Calcium on Acute Toxicity of Sodium Chloride to Larval and Newly Transformed Juvenile Striped Bass   Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1995 
Renal Adenocarcinoma in Mozambique Tilapia, Neurofibroma in Goldfish, and Osteosarcoma in Channel Catfish from a Puerto Rican Hatchery   Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1995 
Efficacy of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin for Spawning Striped Bass and White Bass  Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies  1995 
MORPHOLOGY OF LIVER, GALL BLADDER, AND PANCREAS IN THE SELF-FERTILIZING FISH, RIVULUS MARMORATUS (CYPRINODONTIFORMES: APLOCHEILIDAE)  Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science  1995 
Endogenous Enzymes Cause Structural and Chemical Artifacts in Methacrylate- and Celloidin-embedded Sections of Unfixed Freeze-dried Tissues  Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry  1994 
Bacterial Diseases and Mortality of Angler-Caught Largemouth Bass Released after Tournaments on Walter F. George Reservoir, Alabama-Georgia  North American Journal of Fisheries Management  1994 
Age-Related Changes in Survival of Larval and Juvenile Striped Bass in Different Concentrations of Calcium and Sodium  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1994 
Effect of Pump Speed on Injuries to Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) during Harvest with a Turbine Pump  Aquacultural Engineering  1994 
Bacillus mycoides: a bacterial pathogen of channel catfish  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms  1994 
Oncogene expression in hepatic and biliary neoplasms of the fish Rivulus ocellatus marmoratus: correlation with histologic changes  Carcinogenesis  1994 
Golden Shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas x Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus Hybrids: Gonad Histology and Spawning Trials  Journal of the World Aquaculture Society  1994 
Histopathology of Gill, Liver, and Pancreas, and Serum Enzyme Levels of Channel Catfish Infected with Aeromonas hydrophila Complex  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1993 
Oral Toxicity of Rotenone for Common Carp  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1993 
Effects of environmental concentrations of calcium and sodium on the calcium flux in stressed 34-day-old striped bass  Canadian Journal of Zoology  1993 
Effects of Ammonia on Growth and Survival of Recently Hatched Channel Catfish  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1992 
Effects of Sodium Chloride and Calcium Chloride on Survival of Larval Striped Bass  Journal of Aquaiic Animal Health  1992 
MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY-BASED IMMUNOASSAY OF VITELLOGENIN IN THE BLOOD OF MALE CHANNEL CATFISH (ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS)  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology  1992 
Hematology and Histopathology of an Idiopathic Anemia of Channel Catfish  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1991 
Granulomatous inflammation and monstrous giant cells in response to intraperitoneal hormone implants in channel catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus )  Journal of Comparative Pathology  1991 
Immunohistochemical localization of vitellogenin and associated morphologic changes in hepatocytes of channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus  Canadian Journal of Zoology  1991 
Acute Toxicity of Aflatoxin B, to Channel Catfish  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1990 
Channel Catfish with a Rayed Adipose Fin  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1990 
Effects of Environmental Calcium and Sodium on Postharvest Survival of Juvenile Striped Bass  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health  1990 
Seasonal levels of serum vitellogenin and oocyte growth in the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus  Aquaculture  1990 
FISH NEOPLASMS FOUND AT HIGH PREVALENCE IN POLLUTED WATERS  ( Book chapt. ) In Situ Evaluations of Biological Hazards of Environmental Pollutants  1990 
Pathology of experimental enteric septicaemia in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque), following immersion-exposure to Edwardsiella ictaluri  Journal of Fish Diseases  1989 
Vitellogenin induction by estradiol in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus  General and Comparative Endrocrinology  1989 
Lesions associated with natural and experimental infections of Aeromonas hydrophila in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque)  Journal of Fish Diseases  1988 
Survival of Caught and Released Largemouth Bass after Containment in Live Wells  North American Journal of Fisheries Management  1988 
Caged fish as monitors of pollution: effects of chlorinated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant  Water Resources Bulletin  1988 
Correct Handling increases survival of released largemouth bass  Highlights of Agricultural research  1988 
Diethylnitrosamine-induced hepatic neoplasms in the fish Rivulus ocellatus marmoratus  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms  1988 
Microinjection of chemical carcinogens into small fish embryos: exocrine pancreatic neoplasm in Fundulus grandis exposed to N-methyl-N1-nitro- N-nitrosoguanidine  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms  1988 
Evaluation of portals of entry of aeromonas hydrophila in Channel Catfish  Aquaculture  1987 
Skin histology of Rivulus ocellatus marmoratus: apparent adaptation for aerial respiration  Copeia  1987 
Uptake of channel catfish virus from water by channel catfish and bluegills  American Journal of Veterinary Research  1987 
Lesions in Fishes Captured near Drilling Platforms in  Marine Environmental Research  1986 
Diethylnitrosamine-induced pancreatic neoplasms in the fish Rivulus ocellatus marmoratus  Journal of the National Cancer Institute  1986 
Nuclear glycogen and lipid in hepatocytes of a fish, Rivulus ocellatus marmoratus  Canadian Journal of Zoology  1986 
Use of additional calcium in soft-water ponds for improved striped bass survival  Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies  1986 
Lesions of a rock beauty, Holacanthus tricolor (Bloch), from Puerto Rico  Journal of Fish Diseases  1985 
Nitrite-Induced Predisposition of Channel Catfish to Bacterial Diseases  Progressive Fish Culturist  1985 
Black Bullhead: an indicator of the presence of chemical carcinogens  Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Water Chlorination: Environmental Impacts and Health Effects  1985 
Survival of juvenile striped bass ( Morone saxatilis ) and Morone hybrid bass ( Morone chrysops x Morone saxatilis ) increased by addition of calcium to soft water  Aquaculture  1985 
PATHOLOGY OF DIETHYLNITROSAMINE TOXICITY IN THE FISH RIVULUS MARMORATUS  Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology  1985 
Reproductive Biology  ( Book chapt. ) Channel Catfish Culture  1985 
Lymphocystis from West Indian marine fishes  Journal of Wildlife Diseases  1984 
Comparative Histology of Rainbow Trout and Channel Catfish Grown in Intensive Static Water Aquaculture  Progressive Fish-Culturist  1984 
Dermal fibroma in a redband parrotfish, Sparisoma aurofrenatum (Valenciennes )  Journal of Fish Diseases  1983 
Etomidate as an Anesthetic for Fish: Its Toxicity and Efficacy  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1983 
Papillomas of black bullheads, Ictalurus melas (Rafinesque), living in a chlorinated sewage pond   Journal of Fish Diseases  1981 
Effects of Hypolimnetic Discharge on Fish Health Below a Reservoir  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1981 
Pathology of cyprinid fishes caused by Bothriocephalus gowkongensis Yea, 1955 (Cestoda: PseudophyUidea)  Journal of Fish Diseases  1979 
Nifurpirinol (Furanace; P-7138) related lesions on channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque)  Journal of Fish Diseases  1978 
Posthatching histological development of the digestive system and swim bladder of logperch, Percina caprodes  Copeia  1978 
Hematological Changes in Fingerling Channel Catfish Exposed to Malachite Green  Progressive Fish-Culturist  1977 
Necrosis and bacterial infection in channel catfish ( Ictalurus puntatus ) follwing hypoxia  Journal of Wildlife Diseases  1976 

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