Dr. R. Oneal Smitherman

Professor Emeritus
251-968-8611

Research
Publications

Fish genetics, Aquaculture production of channel catfish, tilapia and chinese carps.

Title	Journal	Year
Response to three generations of selection for increased body weight in channel catfish grown in earthen ponds	Aquaculture	2003
Selection, hybridization and genome manipulation in Siluroidei	Aquatic Living Resources Vol. 9	1996
Growth, Survival and Sex Ratios of Oreochromis urolepls hornorum, 0.niloticus and Their Hybrid Treated with 17a-Methyltestosterone	The 3rd International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture, ICLARM Conference Proceedings No. 41	1996
Hybridization and Biochemical Genetics of Black and White Crappies in the Southeastern USA	Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	1994
Genetics and Breeding in Catfish (Siluriformes)	Exploition of Marine Resources	1994
Lack of Inheritance of Stumpbody and Taillessness in Channel Catfish	Progressive Fish Culturist	1991
Effect of body colour of Oreochromis mossambicus ( Peters ) on predation by largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides ( Lacepede )	Aquaculture and Fisheries Management	1991
Effects of manuring regime and stocking rate on primary production and yield of tilapia using liquid swine manure	Aquaculture	1990
Genotype-Environment Interactions for Growth of Blue, Channel and Hybrid Catfish in Ponds and Cages at Varying Densities	Aquaculture	1990
The Economics of intensifying catfish production: a production function analysis	Journal of the World Aquaculture society	1990
Effects of Intraspecific hybridization in tilapia nilotica on survival under ambient winter temperature in Alabama	Journal of the World Aquaculture Society	1990
Estimates of additive genetic effects, maternal genetic effects, individual heterosis, maternal heterosis and egg cytoplasmic effects for growth in tilapia nilotica	Journal of the World Aquaculture Society	1990
Effect of body colour of Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters) on predation by dragonfly nymphs	Aquaculture and Fisheries Management	1990
Flesh and Peritoneal Lining Color of Gold, Bronze, and Black Tilapia mossambica	Journal of Food Science	1990
Effect of body colour of Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters) on predation by dragonfly nymphs	Aquaculture and Fisheries Managernent	1990
Flesh and Peritoneal Lining Color of Gold, Bronze, and Black Tilapia mossambica	Journal of Food Science	1990
Effects of Dietary 17 a-Methyltestosterone on Sex Reversal and Growth of Oreochromis aureus	2nd International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture, Bangkok, Thailand	1988
Lack of Response by Tilapia nilotica to Mass Selection for Rapid Early Growth	Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	1988
Isozyme expression in bighead carp, silver carp and their reciprocal hybrids	Aquaculture	1988
Reproductive performance of three strains of Oreochromis niloticus	Aquaculture	1988
Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphism of Striped Bass in the Southeastern United States"	Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies	1988
Comparison of Mass Selection, Crossbreeding, and Hybridization for Improving Growth of Channel Catfish	Progressive Fish Culturist	1987
Maintenance of genetic quality in cultured tilapia	Asian Fisheries Science	1987
Genetics and Breeding of Catfish	Southern Cooperative Series Bulletin	1987
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	Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	1986
Biochemical Genetics of Largemouth Bass Populations in Alabama	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Game Agencies	1986
Comparison of Strains, Crossbreeds and Hybrids of Channel Catfish for Vulnerability to Angling	Aquaculture	1986
Improved Growth Rate, Reproductive Performance, and Disease Resistance of Crossbred and Selected Catfish from AU-M and AU-K Lines	Circular	1985
Reproductive Efficiency in the Reciprocal Pairings Between Two Strains of Channel Catfish	Progressive Fish Culturist	1984
Development of a cold-tolerrant populationof red tilapia through introgressive hybridization	Journal of the World Aquaculture Society	1984
Karyology of three species of catfishes ( Ictaluridae: Ictalurus ) and four hybrid combinations	Copeia	1984
Ancestry and Breeding of Catfish in the United States	Circular	1984
Proceedings Auburn Symposium on Fisheries and Aquaculture	book (edited)	1984
RELATIVE GROWTH, SURVIVAL AND HARVESTABILITY OF BIGHEAD CARP, SILVER CARP, AND THEIR RECIPROCAL HYBRIDS	Aquaculture	1984
Saddleback: a dominant, lethal gene in Sarotherodon aureus (Steindachner) (= Tilapia aurea)	Journal of Fish Diseases	1983
Reproductive Performances of Crossbred and Pure-Strain Channel Catfish Brood Stocks	Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	1983
Relative tolerance of channel x blue hybrid and channel catfish to low oxygen concentrations	Progressive Fish Culturist	1983
REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS FOR THREE YEAR CLASSES OF TILAPIA NILOTICA AND MATERNAL EFFECTS ON THEIR PROGENY	Fishelson, L and Yaron, Z., compilers, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture, Nazareth, Israel	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	Aquaculture	1983
CORRELATIONS AMONG MORPHOMETRIC TRAITS OF FINGERLING CATFISHES AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO DRESSING PERCENTAGE AT HARVEST	Journal of the World Mariculture Society	1983
Stumpbody Sarotherodon aureus (Steindachner) {= Tilapia aurea) and tail-less S. niloticus (L.) {-T. nilotica): two vertebral anomalies and their effects on body length	Journal of Fish Diseases	1982
Effects of selecting for growth rate on reproduction performance in channel catfish	Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies	1982
Sex-weight relations in blue, channel, and white catfishes: implications for brood stock selection	Progressive-Fish Culturist	1982
Spawning success of reciprocal hybrid pairings between blue and channel catfishes with and without hormone injection	Progressive -Fish Culturist	1982
Length Variation in Species and Hybrid Populations of Blue, Channel, and White Catfishes	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Games Agencies	1982
PATERNAL PREDOMINANCE IN RECIPROCAL CHANNEL-BLUE HYBRID CATFISH	Aquaculture	1982
COMMUNAL STOCKING AND MULTIPLE REARING TECHNIQUE FOR CATFISH GENETICS RESEARCH	Journal of the World Mariculture Society	1982
BREEDING AND CULTURE OF THE RED-GOLD COLOR PHASE OF TILAPIA	Journal of the World Mariculture Society	1982
Relative Harvestability by Angling of Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish, and Their Reciprocal Hybrids	North American Journal of Fisheries Management	1981
Growth in Response to Winter Feeding of Blue, Channel, White, and Hybrid Catfishes	Progressive Fish-Culturist	1981
Predicted Response to Selection for Early Growth in Tilapia nilotica	Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	1980
FOOD HABITS AND GROWTH OF SILVER AND BIGHEAD CARP IN CAGES AND PONDS	Aquaculture	1980
Trapping channel catfish from upland ponds	Highlights of Agricultural Research	1979
Production of Tilapia hybrids with cattle manure or a commercial diet	Symposium on culture of exotic fishes	1978
Genetics and Breeding of Channel Catfish	Bulletin	1978
PRODUCTION OF NORMAL MALE AND ANDROGEN SEX-REVERSED Tilapia aurea AND T. nilotica FED A COMMERCIAL CATFISH DIET IN PONDS	Symposium on the Culture of Exotic Fishes, Smitherman, Shelton and Grover, editors, Fish Culture Section, American Fisheries society.	1978
Progress and Prospects of Fish Farming	(book chapter) New PRotein Foods	1976
Channel Catfish Virus Experiments with Different Strains of Channel Catfish	Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	1975
FOOD HABITS OF HYBRID BUFFALOFISH, TILAPIA, ISRAELI CARP AND CHANNEL CATFISH IN POLYCULTURE	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies	1975
PRODUCTION OF HYBRID (BLUE x CHANNEL) CATFISH AND CHANNEL CATFISH IN PONDS	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Games Agencies	1975
Catfish culture and the ag engineer	Agricultural Engineering	1971
Food habits of the white amur stocked in ponds alone and in combination with other species	Progessive Fish-Culturist	1971
OBSERVATIONS ON SPAWNlNG AND GROWTH OF FOUR SPECIES OF BASSES (Micropterus) IN PONDS	Proceedings of 25th Annual Conferenoe of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners	1971
DEVELOPMENT OF COLOR PATTERN IN POND REARED YOUNG OF FIVE Micropterus SPECIES OF SOUTHEASTERN U.S.	Proceedings of 25th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Assooiation of Game and Fish Commissioners	1971
Effect of the strigeid trematode, Posthodiplostomum minimum, upon growth and mortality of bulegill, Lepomis Macrochirus	FAO Fisheries Report 44	1968
Evaluation of eight species of fish for aquatic weed control	FAO Fisheries Report 44	1968
EFFECfS OF SUPPLEMENTAL FEED AND FERTILIZER ON PRODUCTON OF RED SWAMP CRAWFlSH, Procambarus clarki, IN POOLS AND PONDS	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Games Agencies	1967
Estimation of bass numbers in a farm pond prior to draining with electro-shocking and angling	Southeastern Game and fish Commissioners	1965
Experimental host Specificity of Posthodiplostomum minimum	Experimental Parasitology	1965
Host Specificity of Posthodiplostomum minimum ( Trematoda ): Strigeida with twelve species of fishes and two sunfish hybrids	Conference of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners	1964
Artificial Propagation of Sunfishes, with Meristic Comparisons of Three Species of Lepomis and Five of Their Hybrids	Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	1962

73 Records Total

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Dr. R. Oneal Smitherman

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