Shepherd, B.S. 2009. Aquaculture in the 21st Century and Beyond [abstract]. 2009 Wisconsin Renewable Energy Summit, Water Technology, March 25-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Session 18-3.
Shepherd, B.S., Rees, C.B., Binkowski, F.P., Goetz, F.R. 2008. Characterization of genes involved with growth and immunity in the yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Abstract Book of Eighth International Congress on the Biology of Fish. p. 89.
Gahr, S.A., Vallejo, R.L., Weber, G.M., Shepherd, B.S., Silverstein, J., Rexroad III, C.E. 2008. Effects of short term growth hormone treatment on the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver and muscle transcriptomes. Physiological Genomics. 32:380-9.
Shepherd, B.S., Johnson, J.K., Silverstein, J., Parhar, I., Vijayan, M.M., McGuire, A., Weber, G.M. 2006. Endocrine and orexigenic effects of growth hormone secretogogues in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A 146(2007):390-399.
Gahr, S.A., Weber, G.M., Shepherd, B.S., Silverstein, J., Vallejo, R.L., Coulibaly, I., Rexroad III, C.E. 2005. Effects of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbst) on the Liver and Muscle Transcriptomes of High Growth Rate Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss). Plant and Animal Genome Conference, Jan 2006. Abstract ID P534, pg 260.
Takahashi, H., Sakamoto, T., Hyodo, S., Shepherd, B.S., Grau, E. 2006. Expression of glucocorticoid receptor in the intestine of a euryhaline teleost, the mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus): effect of seawater exposure and cortisol treatment. Life Sciences 78(20): 2329-2335.
Kaiya, H., Small, B.C., Bilodeau, A.L., Shepherd, B.S., Kojima, M., Hosoda, H., Kangawa, K. 2005. Purification, cdna cloning and characterization of ghrelin in channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus. General and Comparative Endocrinology 143:201-210.
Elango, A., Shepherd, B.S., Chen, T.T. 2006. Effects of endocrine disrupters on the expression of growth hormone and prolactin mrna in the rainbow trout pituitary. General and Comparative Endocrinology 145(2):116-127..
Shepherd, B.S., Drennon, K.D., Johnson, J.K., Nichols, J.W., Playle, R.C., Singer, T.D., Vijayan, M.M. 2005. The effects of gradual salinity acclimation on the somatotropic axis in rainbow trout, oncorhynchus mykiss. Aquaculture America Conference. On CD.
Shepherd, B.S., Johnson, J., Silverstein, J., Weber, G.M. 2004. Endocrine and orexigenic effects of growth hormone secretogogues in rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss). International Symposium on Fish Endocrinology.
Shepherd, B.S., Weber, G.M., Vijayan, M., Seale, A., Riley, L., Rodriguez, M.F., Richman III, H., Hirano, T., Grau, G. 2006. Control of growth in tilapia: developments and prospects. Tilapias: Culture, Nutrition, and Feeding (3)73-137.
Soga, T., Kitahashi, T., Uchida, H., Sato, H., Shepherd, B.S., Parhar, I. 2004. Growth hormone release: interactions between ghrelin, npy, ghrh and gnrh neurons. International Symposium on Fish Endocrinology.
Lynn, S.G., Shepherd, B.S. 2004. Cloning and expression studies for multiple endocrine genes in yellow perch perca flavescens. World Aquaculture Society Meeting.