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Publications on Copepod Physiology

Tarrant AM, McNamara-Bordewick N, Blanco-Bercial L, Miccoli A, Maas AE. (2021). Diel metabolic patterns in a migratory oceanic copepod. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 545: 151643. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2021.151643. See related "Ocean Bites" blog post.

Tarrant AM, Eisner LB, Kimmel DG. (2021) Metabolic gene expression in Calanus glacialis in the southeastern Bering Sea and sensitivity to starvation. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 674:73-88. DOI: 10.3354/meps13820

Berger CA*, Steinberg DK, Copley NJ, Tarrant AM. (2021) De novo transcriptome assembly of the Southern Ocean copepod Rhincalanus gigas sheds light on developmental changes in gene expression. Marine Genomics, DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2021.100835. Open Access

Lenz PH, Roncalli V, Cieslak M, Tarrant AM, Castelfranco AM, Hartline DK. (2021) Reproductive vs. diapause programs: transcriptional phenotypes of pre-adult Calanus finmarchicus. Communications Biology, 4(1): 1-13. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01946-0. Open Access

Skottene E, Tarrant AM, Altin D, Olsen RE, Choque M, Kvile KØ. (2020) Lipid metabolism in  Calanus finmarchicus is sensitive to variations in predation risk and food availability. Scientific Reports 10:22322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79165-6. Open Access

Tarrant AM. (2020). Small copepods could play a big role in the marine carbon cycle. BioEssays 42: e2000267. DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000267.

Skottene E*, Tarrant AM, Olsen AJ, Altin D, Østensen M-A, Hansen BH, Choquet M, Jenssen BM, Olsen RE. (2019) The β-oxidation pathway is downregulated during diapause termination in Calanus copepods. Scientific Reports 9:1-13. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53032-5.

Skottene E*. Tarrant AM, Olsen AJ, Altin D, Hansen BH, Choquet M, Olsen RE, Jenssen BM. (2019) A crude awakening: Effects of crude oil on lipid metabolism in calanoid copepods terminating diapause. Biological Bulletin, 237:90-110. DOI: 10.1086/705234.

Tarrant AM, Nilsson B, Hansen BW. (2019) Molecular physiology of copepods – from biomarkers to transcriptomes and back again. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics 30: 230-247. DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2019.03.005.

Maas AE, Blanco Bercial L, Lo A, Tarrant AM, Timmins-Schiffman, E. (2018) Variations in copepod proteome and respiration rate in association with diel vertical migration and circadian cycle. Biological Bulletin, DOI:10.1086/699219.

Datta MS, Almada AA, Baumgartner MF, Mincer TJ, Tarrant AM, Polz MF. (2018) Inter-individual variation in copepod microbiomes reveals bacterial networks linked to host physiology. ISME Journal, DOI:10.1038/s41396-018-0182-1.

Hansen BH, Tarrant AM, Altin D, Salaberria I, Nordtug T, Øverjordet B. 2017. Maternal PAH transfer and effects on offspring of copepods exposed to dispersed oil with and without oil droplets. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2017: 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2017.1352190.

Baumgartner MF#Tarrant AM#. (2017) Physiology and ecology of diapause in marine copepods. Annual Review of Marine Science, 9:387-411. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-010816-060505.

Tarrant AM#Baumgartner MF#, Lysiak NSJ, Altin D, Størseth T, Hansen BH. (2016) Transcriptional profiling of metabolic transitions during development and diapause preparation in the copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Integrative and Comparative Biology, DOI: 10.1093/icb/icw060.

Almada AA*, Tarrant AM. (2016) Vibrio colonists elicit targeted transcriptional responses from copepod hosts. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92(6): fiw072 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiw072. Author’s version, freely available.

Tarrant AM*, Baumgartner MF*, Hansen BH, Altin D, Nordtug T, Olsen AJ. (2014) Transcriptional profiling of reproductive development, lipid storage and molting throughout the last juvenile stage of the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Accepted in principle by Frontiers in Zoology 11:91. DOI:10.1186/s12983-014-0091-8 *These two authors made equal contributions.

Aruda AM*, Baumgartner MF, Reitzel AM*, Tarrant AM. (2011). Heat shock protein expression during stress and diapause in the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Journal of Insect Physiology 57(5):665-75. Electronic access, author copy

Tarrant AM*, Baumgartner MF*, Verslycke T, Johnson CL. (2008) Differential gene expression in diapausing and active Calanus finmarchicus (Copepoda). Marine Ecology Progress Series 355:193-207.* These two authors made equal contributions.