Graduate School and Research

University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Administration

Research Profile

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  Brachyura

  
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  Callinectes sapidus

  
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  cuticle

  
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  crab

  
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  adenosinetriphosphatase

  
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  oxygen consumption

  
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  Molting

  
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  calcification

  
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  Crustacea

  
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  permeability

  

Publications

• 1.

  2013

  Hsiang-Yin Chen; Robert D. Roer; R. Douglas Watson

  Molecular cloning of a plasma membrane Ca^{2 +} ATPase (PMCA) from Y-organs of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), and determination of spatial and temporal patterns of PMCA gene expression

  Gene. 2013.

• 2.

  2012

  Hsiang-Yin Chen; Richard M. Dillaman; Robert D. Roer; R. Douglas Watson

  Stage-specific changes in calcium concentration in crustacean (Callinectes sapidus) Y-organs during a natural molting cycle, and their relation to the hemolymphatic ecdysteroid titer

  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology. 2012;163(1):170-173.

• 3.

  2010

  Junying Zheng; Hsiang-Yin Chen; Cheol Young Choi; Robert D. Roer; R. Douglas Watson

  Molecular cloning of a putative crustacean hyperglycemic hormone (CHH) isoform from extra-eyestalk tissue of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), and determination of temporal and spatial patterns of CHH gene expression

  General and Comparative Endocrinology. 2010;169(2):174-181.

Grants

• 1.

  Robert Roer

  Possible Use of Eyestalk Annuli for Age Determination in the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus

  1/1/2013 - 12/31/2013

  Sponsor: North Carolina Sea Grant

  Funding: $ 4,400.00

• 2.

  Ronald Vetter; Steven Miller; Robert Roer

  Monitoring and Mapping of Threatened Acroporid Corals in the U.S. Jurisdiction: development of a multi-state conservation program

  4/1/2012 - 3/31/2013

  Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW)

  Funding: $ 52,722.00

• 3.

  Ronald Vetter; Robert Roer

  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for Leigh Harden

  8/1/2010 - 6/30/2014

  Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)

  Funding: $ 40,500.00

Journals

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  Publications
• Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  3
• Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -- Part A: Physiology
  3
• Journal of Applied Physiology
  2
• Journal of Biomechanics
  2
• Journal of Crustacean Biology
  2

Institutional Network

• Internal
  Shared Pub.
• Biology and Marine Biology
  13
• Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science
  1

• External
  Shared Pub.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
  4
• Russian Academy of Sciences
  3
• University of New South Wales
  1
• Eastern Virginia Medical School
  1
• University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  1
• University of California, Santa Barbara
  1