Whiteley, Nia Mererid - Bangor University - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

Offices held Deputy Head of School Undergraduate Admissions Tutor Committees: CNS Teaching and Learning Committee CNS Publicity and Marketing Committee SBS Board of Studies SBS Management Committee Groups: SBS Academic Staff SBS Teaching Staff

研究领域

Research interests cover the physiological and metabolic adaptations of aquatic organisms to environmental change, including underlying mechanisms and ecological implications. Laboratory and field based studies are used to assess the capability of marine crustaceans to adapt to environmental challenges such as changes in temperature, oxygen levels, salinity and pH. Acid-base balance, ion regulation, respiratory gas exchange, and protein turnover are examined at different levels of biological organisation and associated with thermal histories and life-history traits. Interests also include environmental modulation of growth and metabolism, and molecular regulation of muscle function in crustaceans. Collaborative projects examine the evolutionary significance of any functional changes by examining variations in genotype along natural thermal gradients. Current research projects are examining the energetic costs of physiological adjustments to ocean acidification and salinity (Saloa Project) and the energetic costs of osmoregulation.

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Mackenzie, C.L., Ormondroyd, G.A., Curling, S.F., Ball, R.J., Whiteley, N.M. and Malham, S.K. Temperature, rather than ocean acidification, reduces shell strength in a commercial shellfish species during food limitation. PLoS ONE e86764. Mackenzie, C.L., Bell, M.C., Birchenough, S.N.R., Culloty, S.C., Sanderson, W.G., Whiteley, N.M., and Malham, S.K., (2013). Future socio-economic and environmental sustainability of the Irish Sea requires a multi-disciplinary approach with industry and research collaboration, and cross-border partnership. Ocean and Coastal Management. 85A, 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.08.012. Rastrick, SPS., Whiteley, NM., (2013) Influence of natural thermal gradients on whole animal rates of protein synthesis in marine gammarid amphipods. PLoS ONE 8(3). e60050. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060050 McGaw, IJ., Whiteley, NM., (2012) Effects of acclimation and acute temperature change on specific dynamic action and gastric processing in the green shore crab, Carcinus maenas. J Thermal Biology 37, 570-578. Wilkinson, TJ., Rock, J., Whiteley, NM., Ovcharenko, MO., Ironside, JE., (2011) Genetic diversity of the feminizing microsporidian parasite Dictyocoela: new insights into host-specificity, sex and phylogeography. International Journal for Parasitology 41, 959-966. Whiteley, NM., (2011) Physiological and ecological responses of crustaceans to ocean acidification Marine Ecology Progress Series 430, 257-271. doi: 10.3354/meps09185. Whiteley, NM., Rastrick, SPS., Lunt, DHL., Rock, J., (2011) Latitudinal variations in the physiology of marine gammarid amphipods. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 400, 70-77. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.027 Rastrick, SPS., Whiteley, NM., (2011) Congeneric amphipods show differing abilities to maintain metabolic rates with latitude. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84(2), 154-165. Whiteley, NM., Magnay, JL., McCleary, SJ., Khazraee, S., El Haj, AJ., Rock, J., (2010) Characterization of myosin heavy chain gene variants in the fast and slow muscle fibers of gammarid amphipods. Comp Biochem Physiol A.157, 116-122. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.05.014. Costa, FO., Henzler, CM., Lunt, DH., Whiteley, NM., Rock, J., (2009) Probing Gammarus (Amphipoda) taxonomy with DNA barcodes: insights into cryptic speciation and phylogeographic splits. Systematics and Biodiversity 7(4), 365- 379. doi:10.1017/S1477200009990120. Whiteley, NM and Fraser, KPP., (2009) The effects of temperature on ectotherm protein metabolism. In: Protein Biosynthesis (eds. T. E. Esterhouse and L. B. Petrinos). Pp. 249-265. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Intanai, I., Taylor, EW., Whiteley, NM., (2009) Effects of salinity on rates of protein synthesis and oxygen uptake in the post-larvae and juveniles of the tropical prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man), Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-molecular & Integrative Physiology, 152(3), 372-378. Rock, J., Magnay, JL., Beech, S., El haj, AJ., Goldspink, G., Lunt, DH., Whiteley, NM., (2009) Linking functional molecular variation with environmental gradients: Myosin gene diversity in a crustacean broadly distributed across variable thermal environments, Gene, 437(1-2), 60-70. Mckenzie, DJ., Steffensen, JF., Korsmeyer, K., Whiteley, NM., Bronzi, P., Taylor, EW., (2007) Swimming alters responses to hypoxia in the Adriatic sturgeon Acipenser naccarii, Journal of Fish Biology, 70(2), 651-658. Rock, J., Ironside, J., Potter, T., Whiteley, NM., Lunt, DH., (2007) Phylogeography and environmental diversification of a highly adaptable marine amphipod, Gammarus duebeni, Heredity, 99(1), 102-111. Whiteley, NM., Christiansen, JS., Egginton, S., (2006) Polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Gadidae), show an intermediate stress response between Antarctic and temperate fishes, Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol, 145(4), 493-501. Whiteley, N., Faulkner, LS., (2005) Temperature influences whole-animal rates of metabolism but not protein synthesis in a temperate intertidal isopod, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 78(2), 227-238. Rock, J., Faulkner, L., Whiteley, N., (2003) Does temperature acclimation affect muscle function in marine crustaceans via changes in molecular diversity?, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 43(6), 957-957, Holmes, JM., Whiteley, NM., Magnay, JL., El haj, AJ., (2002) Comparison of the variable loop regions of myosin heavy chain genes from Antarctic and temperate isopods, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 131(3), 349-359. Wilson, JM., Whiteley, NM., Randall, DJ., (2002) Ionoregulatory changes in the gill epithelia of coho salmon during seawater acclimation, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 75(3), 237-249. Whiteley, NM., Robertson, RF., Meagor, J., El haj, AJ., Taylor, EW., (2001) Protein synthesis and specific dynamic action in crustaceans: effects of temperature, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-molecular & Integrative Physiology, 128(3), 595-606. Whiteley, NM., Scott, JL., Breeze, SJ., Mccann, L., (2001) Effects of water salinity on acid-base balance in decapod crustaceans, Journal of Experimental Biology, 204(5), 1003-1011. Rovero, F., Hughes, RN., Whiteley, NM., Chelazzi, G., (2000) Estimating the energetic cost of fighting in shore crabs by noninvasive monitoring of heartbeat rate, Animal Behaviour, 59, 705-713. Whiteley, NM., Egginton, S., (2000) Adrenergic responses of Antarctic fishes to extreme trauma, Journal of Physiology-london, 523, 279P-280P,