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Analyses of the Effects of Crude Oil on Increased Disease Susceptibility and Physiological Responses of Selected Gulf of Mexico Fishes

Implementing Organization

Mississippi State University

Overview

DWH Project Funding

$250,000

Known Leveraged Funding

$0

Funding Organization

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

Funding Program

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative GoMRI Grant Program

Details

Project Category

Science

Project Actions

Chemical Aspects Research

Targeted Resources

Human and/or Institutional Capacity

Project Description

Oil exposure has been associated with devastating infectious disease outbreaks in wild populations of fish. The links between these outbreaks and the oil exposure are circumstantial but they suggest an associated perturbation of fishes' immune systems. In Phase 1 of our research we validated the use of the flowcytometer as a high-throughput, sensitive method for evaluating fish immune cell profiles. We sampled oil-exposed alligator gar and killifish near Terrebonne Bay in August.

Contact

Lora Petrie-Hanson
662-325-1291
lora@cvm.msstate.edu
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