College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Education:

University of Georgia (8/88-12/91). PhD degree in Zoology. 

Texas Tech University (1/80-7/82). MS degree in Wildlife Science.

University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (8/75-5/79). Dual BS degrees in Wildlife Management and Biology.

Background:

I am Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University (MSU). I was on the MSU faculty for 26 years associated with several departments and inter-disciplinary programs including the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program and the Genetics and Genomics Program. I was also a member of the Partnership for Ecosystem Research and Management (PERM) cooperative research program between the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Prior to my faculty appointment at MSU I was the Project Leader of the Molecular Ecology Laboratory for the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center.  I received post doctoral training in the Department of Zoology at the University of Leicester (UK). 

I am an evolutionary ecologist with broad academic and professional training and interests in population ecology and genetics.  Work in my laboratory has been directed toward the use of molecular genetic and genomic markers as sources of inference at the individual, population, or ecosystem levels.  Research interests include analyses of environmental and genetic effects on early life history traits in fishes, comparative phylogeography, studies of mating systems and use of pedigree and parentage analyses as means to quantify measures of recruitment, and landscape genetics.  Emphasis has been placed on managed or exploited populations and in the area of Conservation Biology.

Selected Past Research Endeavors:

• Validate and apply sea lamprey diet analysis using DNA metabarcoding
• Development and application of eDNA biodiversity survey tools to identify critical habitat for wetland herpetological communities
• Environmental, biologic, and sampling effects of genetic estimates of adult sea lamprey abundance in Great Lake Tributaries
• Genomic approaches applied to Aquatic Invasive Species management
• Metabarcoding to characterize aquatic communities and invasive species surveillance
• Identification of adaptive genes associated with lake trout survival and recruitment in different and changing Great environments
• Interactions between fungi, bacteria and early ontogenetic forms of fish
• Black bear source-sink dynamics in Michigan’s lower peninsula
• Simultaneous analysis of genetic and length-at-age data to estimate stock contribution for mixed-stock and strain in open-water fisheries in the Great lakes
• Ecological and genetic approaches to develop sustainable and disease-free fisheries in the Great Lakes
• Genealogical assessment of relatedness of free-ranging white-tailed deer related to transmission of chronic wasting disease
• Assessment of furbearer population size, and effects of landscape features on distribution and genetic structure
• Use of genetic tagging to estimate black bear population size in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan

Recent Publications:

*Graduate or undergraduate student

2024

Euclide, Peter T., Wes Larson, Chris Wilson, and Kim T. Scribner. Human impacts on Great Lakes walleye Sander vitreus gene flow, diversity, and local adaptation. Molecular Ecology. In press.

Adams, Nicole E., Jared J. Homola, Nick M. Sard, Lucas R. Nathan, Brian M. Roth, John D. Robinson, and Kim T. Scribner. 2024. Genomic data reveal multiple paternity and breeding population size in the invasive Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). Evolutionary Applications. In Press.

*Johnston, Amber E., Megan A. Shavalier, Kim T. Scribner, Esteban Soto, Susan Yun, Thomas P. Loch. 2024. Assessing the efficacy of three hatchery disinfectants for inactivating a lake sturgeon herpesvirus (Family Alloherpesviridae). Viruses. 16(7), 1062; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16071062.

*Taylor, Alaina A., Douglas, L. Larson, Kim T. Scribner, Edward A. Baker, Norman M. Halden and W. Gary Anderson. 2024. Using Fin Ray Elemental Signatures and Growth Zone Width to Estimate Onset of Sexually Maturity in Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Can. J. Fish Aquat. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2023-0279.

Scribner, Kim T., Sandra L. Talbot, Barbara J. Pierson, John Robinson, Richard Lanctot, Daniel Esler, and Kathryn Dickson. 2024. A phylogeographic study of the discontinuously distributed Harlequin Duck. Ibis. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13336.

Bopp, Justin, Lucas Nathan, John Robinson, Kim T. Scribner, Jeanette Kanefsky, Seth Herbst, Kelly F. Robinson. 2024. Assessing grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) occupancy and detection probability within Lake Erie from environmental DNA. Management of Biological Invasions. 15:51-72.

Budnick, William R., Dan Hayes, Seth Herbst, Jeannette Kanefsky, Lucas Nathan, Brian M. Roth, Nicholas M. Sard, Kim T. Scribner, Kelley Smith, and Sara Thomas. 2024. Using baited traps and eDNA to detect invasive red swamp crayfish. Hydrobiologica. 851, 2761–2774 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05492-8.

Ebener, Mark P., James R. Bence, Richard D. Clark, Jr., and Kim T. Scribner. Using Genetic Information to Improve Estimates of Lake Trout Spawning Biomass in Southern Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research. Tentatively Accepted.

Forsythe^, Patrick S., Nicholas M. Sard, Stefan Tucker, Lexi Atler, Jeannette Kanefsky, Jennifer Johnson, Daniel Isermann, Robert Elliott, Mike Donofrio, Kim T. Scribner. Quantifying demographic and genetic measures of fish passage success: parentage-based estimates of reproductive contributions from translocated and resident adult Lake Sturgeon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Tentatively Accepted.

Ruppert, O.M., Homola, J.J., Kanefsky, J., Swinehart, A., Scribner, K.T., Robinson, J.D. Optimization of wetland environmental DNA metabarcoding protocols for Great Lakes region herpetofauna. Environmental DNA. Tentatively Accepted.

2023

*Hansen, Zoe A., Karla Vasco, James T. Rudrik, Kim T. Scribner, Lixin Zhang, Shannon D. Manning. 2023. Recovery of the gut microbiome following enteric infection and persistence of antimicrobial resistance genes in specific microbial hosts. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.13.523990. 

*Weise, E. M., Kim T. Scribner, Jean V. Adams, Olivia Boeberitz, Aaron K. Jubar, Gale Bravener, Nicholas S. Johnson, John D. Robinson. 2023. Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) effective breeding size predicted by stream characteristics and sampling regimes. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10519.

*Thuy Yen Duong, James Bence, Patrick S. Forsythe, James A. Crossman, Edward A. Baker^, and Kim T. Scribner. 2023. Multi-year individual-based analyses reveal effects of environmental and demographic variables associated with multi-annual reproductive success of male and female lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10253. 

*Angoshtari, R., Kim T. Scribner, T. Marsh. 2023. The impact of primary colonizers on the community composition of river biofilm. Plos One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288040.

*Connor, T., K. Frank, A. Wilson, J. Zhang, Kim T. Scribner and J, Lui. 2023. Social network analysis uncovers hidden social complexity in ‘solitary’ species. Ursus. (34e9), 1-13. DOI:10.2192/URSUS-D-22-00011.1

Tamrakar, Sonam, *Jacob Kimmel, Yu-Win Chung-Davidson,Tyler Buchinger, Kim T. Scribner, and Weiming Li. 2023. Determination of thyroid hormones in lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) tissues at different developmental stages using a sensitive Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry method. Journal of Chromatography B. DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2023.123803. 

*Kimmel, Jacob G., Tyler J. Buchinger, Douglas L. Larson, Edward A. Baker, Troy G. Zorn, Kim T. Scribner, and Weiming Li. 2023. Behavioral evidence of olfactory imprinting during embryonic and larval stages in lake sturgeon. Conservation Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coad045. 

Utrup, Brad E., Jan-Michael Hessenauer, Andrew S. Briggs, Kim T. Scribner, Jeannette Kanefsky, Todd C. Wills. 2023. Biological Investigation of the endangered Northern Madtom (Noturus stigmosus) in the North Channel of the St. Clair River. N. American Journal of Fisheries Management. doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10886.

 Euclide, Peter T., Wesley A. Larson, Matthew Bootsma, Matthew Faust, Loren Miller, Kim T. Scribner, Wendylee Stott, Chris C. Wilson, Emily K. Latch. 2023. A new GTSeq resource to facilitate multijurisdictional research and management of walleye Sander vitreus. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9591. 

*Johnston, Amber A., Megan A. Shavalier, Kim T. Scribner, Esteban Soto, Matt J. Griffin, Geoffrey C. Waldbieser, Bradley M. Richardson, Andrew D. Winters, Susan Yun, Edward A. Baker,^, Douglas L. Larson, Matti Kiupel, Thomas P. Loch. 2023. First Isolation of a Herpesvirus (Family Alloherpesviridae) from Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Animals. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12233230. 

Wilson, Robert E., Sarah A. Sonsthagen, Jeffrey M. DaCosta, Michael D. Sorenson, Anthony D. Fox, Melanie Weaver, Dan Skalos, Alexander Kondratyev, Kim T. Scribner, Craig R. Ely, Alyn Walsh, Sandra L. Talbot. 2023. As the goose flies: Migration routes and timing of strategies influence genetic diversity patterns of a circumpolar migratory herbivore. Diversity. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14121067. 

*Kanefsky, Jeannette, Seth Smith, and Kim T. Scribner.^.2023.  Real-time PCR-based method for sex determination in lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Diversity. 14:839. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14100839. 

2022

*Abdul Razak,S., S. Valentine T.L. Marsh, J. Bauman, N. Mohd Assa`ad, and Kim T. Scribner. 2022. Compositional dynamics of gastrointestinal tract microbiomes associated with dietary transition and feeding cessation in lake sturgeon larvae. Microorganisms. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10091872. 

*Walquist, R.W., Kim T. Scribner, J. Waraniak, J.M. Bauman, T.L. Marsh, and J. Kanefsky. 2022. Aquatic insect functional feeding groups differentially affect Lake Sturgeon larval phenotypes and egg surface microbial communities. Plos One. 17(11): e0277336.

*Sanfilippo, Gabrielle , Joseph Riedy, Douglas Larson, and Kim T. Scribner. 2022. Multi-year evidence of unbiased sex ratios in hatchery and wild- reared juvenile lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Journal of Great Lakes Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2022.07.004.

*Curren, Leslie J., Maggie A Sawdy, Kim T. Scribner, Kenna D.S. Lehman, and Kay E. Holekamp. 2022. Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.76: 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03212-7.

*Abdul Razak, S.A., John M. Bauman, Terence L. Marsh, and Kim T. Scribner. 2022. Changes in lake sturgeon gut microbiomes in response to chemotherapeutant treatments. Microorganisms. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10051005.

*Sard, N.M., K.R. Smith, B.M. Roth, L. Nathan, S.J. Herbst, and Kim T. Scribner. 2022. Multiple sources and founder effects characterize the red swamp crayfish invasion in Michigan, USA. Biological Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02938-9. 

*Receveur, J., A. Doretto, E. Baker, D. Larson, J. Bauman, R. Walquist, E. Benbow, and Kim T. Scribner. 2022. Riverine Drift Communities During Larval Fish Dispersal Over Multiple Recruitment Years. Hydrobiologica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-04995-6.

*Wassink, L., B. Huerta, W. Li, and Kim T. Scribner. 2022. Hatchery and wild larval lake sturgeon experience effects of captivity on stress reactivity, behavior, and predation risk. Conservation Physiology. https://doi: 10.1093/conphys/coac062.

*Day, Casey C., Jonathan H. Gilbert, Jennifer A. Grauer, Phillip J. Manlick, Jonathan N. Pauli, Kim T. Scribner, Bronwyn W. Williams, Patrick A. Zollner. 2022. Temporal and spatial effects of assortative mating on a reintroduced carnivore. Journal of Mammology. 103(2): 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab107.

Scribner, Kim T., Genelle Uhrig, Jeannette Kanefsky, Marty Holtgren, and Corey Jerome. 2022. Decadal estimates of adult lake sturgeon abundance and diversity based on pedigree analyses of multi-locus genotypes. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 48: 551-564.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.12.005.

*Scribner, Kim T., T. Brenden, R. Elliott, M. Donofrio, K. Bott, J. Kanefsky, J. Homola, I. Tsehey, J. Bence, E. Baker, and N. Auer. 2022.  Mixed stock analysis of genetic compositions of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) mixtures in Lake Michigan: hierarchical spatial heterogeneity and evidence of improving recruitment in Wisconsin spawning populations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 79: 652-669. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2021-0006. 

2021

Lorencen, Bailey M., Jared J. Homola, John D. Robinson, Kim T. Scribner. 2021. Quantifying Nonlinear Temporal Effects of Ethanol Preservation on Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) Anatomical Traits. Journal of Morphology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21420. 

*Doretto, Alberto, Joseph Receveur, M. Eric Benbow, Edward A. Baker, and Kim T. Scribner. 2021. Macroinvertebrate community assembly along a river continuum: the role of spatial scale and local habitat Assembly. River Research and Applications. 38: 334-344. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3889. 

*Connor, T., Q. Maiju, Kim T. Scribner, J. Zhang, Jindong, V. Hull, W. Bai, A. Shortridge, R. Li, H. Zhang, L. Hemin, J. Lui. 2021. Complex effects of habitat amount and fragmentation on functional connectivity and inbreeding in a giant panda population. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13828. 

*Homola, J. J., John D. Robinson, Jeannette Kanefsky, WendyLee Stott, Gary Whelan, Kim T. Scribner. 2021. Genetic characterization and inferred origins of Michigan’s inland cisco (Coregonus artedi) populations. Journal of Great Lakes Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.08.008. 

*Wassink, L.R., Joey Riedy, Belinda Huerta, Garrett Johnson, Weiming Li, Doug Larson, Kim T. Scribner. 2021. Early life interactions with aquatic insects elicits physiological and behavioral stress responses in lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Envir. Biol. Fishes. 104: 989-1003. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-021-01133-4.

*Larson, D., Kim T. Scribner, K. Dabrowski, B.J. Lee, and J. Crossman. 2021. Egg lipid and thiamine levels vary between early and late spawning lake sturgeon. Journal of Applied Ichthyiology. 37: 655-663. doi:10.1111/jai.14239.

*Pukk, L., J. Kanefsky, A.L. Heathman, L. Nathan, S.J. Herbst, E. Weise, N.M. Sard, Kim T. Scribner, and J.D. Robinson. 2021. eDNA metabarcoding quantifies aquatic invasive species prevalence, fish community diversity, and associations with landscape features and human activity. Diversity and Distributions. 27: 2016-2031. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13370.

*Smith, Seth R., Eric Normandeau, Hai, Djambazian, Pubudu N. Mudiyanselage, Andrew Muir, Joannis Ragoussis, Chantelle Penney, Kim T. Scribner, Gordon Luikart, Chris C. Wilson,^, Louis Bernatchez. 2021. A chromosome-anchored genome assembly for lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13483.

*Sard, N.H., Hunter, R., Edward F. Roseman, Daniel B. Hayes, Robin L. DeBruyne, and Kim T. Scribner. 2021. Pedigree accumulation analysis: combining methods from community ecology and population genetics to estimate spawning adult numbers. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12: 2388-2396. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13704.

*Weise, Ellen M., Kim T. Scribner, Jean V. Adams, Olivia Boeberitz, Aaron Jubar, Gale Bravener, Nick Johnson, John D. Robinson. 2022. Applying effective breeding estimates and family structure to assess invasive sea lamprey populations. Evolutionary Applications. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13364. 

*Draheim, Hope M., Jennifer A. Moore, Scott Winterstein, Kim T. Scribner. 2021. Spatial genetic structure and landscape connectivity in black bears: Investigating the significance of using different land cover data sets in landscape genetics analyses. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7111.

*Sanfilippo, G.E., J.J. Homola, J. Ross, J. Kanefsky, J. Kimmel, T. Marsh, and Kim T. Scribner. 2021. Seasonal and spatial variation in stream bacterial communities across the Lake Michigan basin. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 47: 862-874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.02.009.

Scribner, Kim T., and Jeannette Kanefsky. 2021. Molecular sexing of lake sturgeon. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 47: 934-936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.03.015.

*Smith, Matthew M., Jonathan H. Gilbert,  Erik R. Olson,  Kim T. Scribner, Timothy R. Van Deelen, Julie F. Van Stappen, Bronwyn W. Williams, James E. Woodford, and Jonathan N. Pauli. 2021. An unexpected recolonization leads to a surprising pattern of connectivity and reveals a potential refuge along a southern range boundary. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2416. 

Scribner, Kim T., N. Sard, M. Kardos, G. Luikart, and R.S. Waples. 2021. Application of Genetic Data and Theory in Fisheries Management. In. C. Guy, J. Brown, and T. Brenden (eds). Analysis and Interpretation of Freshwater Fisheries Data" 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication. In press.

Angoshtari, Roshan, Kim T. Scribner, and Terence L. Marsh. 2021. The Effects of Antibiotics and Metals on the Assembly of Single and Mixed Species Biofilms. Advances in Microbiology. 10, 623-646. doi: 10.4236/aim.2020.1012045.

Euclide, P.T., S.A. Ludsin, E.A. Marschall, K. Chen, J. Robinson, M. Faust, T.M. MacDougall, C. Wilson, M. Bootsma, W. Stott, Kim T. Scribner, and W. Larson. 2021. Using Genomic Data to Guide Walleye Management in the Great Lakes. Pp 115-139. In, J. Bruner, J. Clay and R.L. DeBruyne, eds. Biology, Management, and Culture of Walleye, Sauger, and Yellow Perch: Status and Needs. Fish & Fisheries Series, vol 41. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80678-1_5.

2020

*Dammerman, K.J., J.P. Steibel, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Shifts in the influence of microhabitat incubation conditions and genetic parentage effects on offspring traits during early ontogeny in lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 103:1565-1581.

*Ye, D., L. Bapu, M.M. Cavalcante, Kim T. Scribner, and T.L. Marsh. 2020. Exogenous protein as an environmental stimulus of biofilm formation in select bacterial strains. Advances in Microbiology 10:123-144.

*Fujimoto, M., T. Marsh, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Effects of filtration and temperature on microbial colonization of lake sturgeon eggs, survival, and development in aquaculture. North American Journal of Aquaculture. https://doi.org/10.1002/naaq.10169.

Larson, Douglas L., Jacob G. Kimmel^,, Jonathan Hegna, Joseph Riedy, Edward A. Baker, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Male migratory behavior is associated with Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) intra-annual variability in sperm quality and reproductive success. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 77: 1943-1959. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0124.

Osborne, M.J., T.F. Turner, T.E. Dowling, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Wild@heart: incorporating elements of the wild life cycle into conservation hatchery programs. Biological Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108768.

*Jay, Kathleen J., James A. Crossman, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Temperature affects transition timing and phenotype between key developmental stages in white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus yolk-sac larvae. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 103. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-020-01007-1.

*Larson, D., M. Faisal, R. Tempelman, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Effects of density, handling, and nutrition experiment on probability of RS infection.  Journal of Aquatic Animal Health.32: 116-126. https://doi-org.proxy2.cl.msu.edu/10.1002/aah.10103.

*Byford, Greg J., Mohamed Faisal, Robert Tempelman, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Prevalence of Renibacterium salmoninarum in non-salmonine fishes from Great Lakes and inland habitats: indicators of environmental reservoirs. Journal of Great Lakes Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2020.09.014. 

*Hegna, Jonathan, Kim T. Scribner, Edward Baker. 2020. Movement and habitat use characteristics of juvenile lake sturgeon in a small hydroelectric reservoir system. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 77: 611–624. DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2018-0407.

*Tucker, Stefan., Angela N. Grimm, James A. Crossman, Kim T. Scribner and Patrick S. Forsythe. 2020. Milt volume influences the probability of egg fertilization in lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens, Rafinesque, 1817). Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 36:282-287.

*Heinle, Kadie, Douglas L. Larson, Andrew M. Lockwood,  Edward A. Baker, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Predation during early ontogenetic stages of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens, Rafinesque, 1817) by Rainbow Darter (Etheostoma caeruleum, Storer, 1845). Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 36:151–158.

*Smith, Seth R., Stephen J. Amish, Louis Bernatchez, Jeremy Le Luyer, Chris Wilson, Olivia Boeberitz, Gordon Luikart, Kim T. Scribner. 2020. A high-density linkage and centromere map for lake trout enables mapping of ecologically relevant traits. Genes, Genomes, Genetics (G3). 10: 1929-1947.

*Wassink, L., B. Huerta, W. Li, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Stressors experienced by mothers and offspring interact to influence behavior and physiology in lake sturgeon. Animal Behaviour. 161:49-59.

*Sard, Nicholas, Seth Smith, Jared Homola, Jeannette Kanefsky, Gale Bravener, Jean Adams, Chris Holbrook, Peter Hrodey, Kevin Tallon, Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Rapture (RAD capture) panel facilitates analyses characterizing sea lamprey reproductive ecology and movement dynamics. Ecology and Evolution.10: 1469-1488.

*Weise, Ellen M., Nicholas M. Sard, Lauren Stanchek, Andrew Nehfer, Kim T. Scribner.  2020. Adaptive genetic management: assessing the efficacy of translocations. Conservation Genetics. 21:277-287.

*Abdul Razak, S.A. and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Ecological and Ontogenetic Components of Larval Lake Sturgeon Gut Microbiota Assembly, Successional Dynamics, and Ecological Evaluation Of Neutral Community Processes. Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86 (10): e02662-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02662-19

*Hunter, R., E. Roseman, R. DeBrunye, N. Sard, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Using pedigree analysis to characterized use of artificial spawning reefs by lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the St. Clair-Detroit River system. Transactions American Fisheries Society. 149:266-283.

*Hunter, R., E. Roseman, R. DeBrunye, N. Sard, D. Hayes, T. Brenden, and Kim T. Scribner. 2020. Assessing potential bias in sample collection methods for use with genetic pedigree analysis: a lake sturgeon (Acipencer fulvescens) large river example. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 40:307-329.