Evenhuis, J., Lapatra, S., Welch, T.J. 2009. Identification and Characterization of Flagellar Biosynthetic Genes in Yersinia ruckeri. Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop.
Vallejo, R.L., Wiens, G.D., Welch, T.J., Rexroad Iii, C.E., Palti, Y. 2009. Evidence of major genes for resistance to bacterial cold-water disease in rainbow trout using mixed inheritance multiple-threshold models and Bayesian segregation analysis. Gordon Research Conference Proceedings.
Silverstein, J., Vallejo, R.L., Palti, Y., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Rexroad Iii, C.E., Ducrocq, V., Leeds, T.D. 2008. Rainbow trout resistance to bacterial cold-water disease is moderately heritable and is not adversely correlated with growth. Journal of Animal Science 2009.87:860-867
Johnson, N., Vallejo, R.L., Silverstein, J., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Hallerman, E.M., Palti, Y. 2008. Suggestive association of major histocompatibility IB genetic markers with resistance to bacterial cold water disease in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Marine Biotechnology. 10:429-437.
Wiens, G.D., Welch, T.J., Rexroad III, C.E., Lapatra, S., Call, D.R., Hunnicutt, D., Bhattacharyya, A., Campbell, J., Walunas, T. 2007. Genome Sequence of Flavobacterium psychrophilum Strain CSF 259-93 and Characterization of a Large Cluster of Genes Containing Short Repeats. Meeting Abstract Pg 12.
Palti, Y., Johnson, N., Rexroad III, C.E., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Silverstein, J., Vallejo, R.L. Associations of Markers Linked to Major Histocompatibility (MH) Regions With Disease Resistance in Rainbow Trout. Meeting Abstract.
Stork, M., Di Lorenzo, M., Welch, T.J., Crosa, J. 2007. Transcription termination Within the iron transport-biosynthesis operon of Vibrio anguillarum requires an antisense RNA. Journal of Bacteriology 189:(9), 3479-88.
Welch, T.J., Fricke, W.F., Eppinger, M., Rosovitz, M.J., Mcdermott, P., White, D., Wiens, G.D., Ravel, J. 2007. Distribution of Yersinia pestis pIP1202-like Multidrug Resistance Plasmids Among Foodborne Pathogens. American Society of Microbiologists Abstracts.
Palti, Y., Johnson, N., Rexroad III, C.E., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Silverstein, J., Vallejo, R.L. 2006. Associations of Markers Linked to Major Histocompatibility (MH) Regions and to Other Immune Response Genes with Disease Resistance in Rainbow Trout. Plant and Animal Genome Abstracts Pg. 11.
Palti, Y., Johnson, N., Rexroad III, C.E., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Silverstein, J., Vallejo, R.L. 2006. Associations of Markers Linked to Major Histocompatibility (MH) Regions and to Other Immune Response Genes with Disease Resistance in Rainbow Trout. World Aquaculture Society Meeting.
Weber, G.M., Lankford, S., Silverstein, J., Vallejo, R.L., Welch, T.J. 2007. Cortisol response to a crowding stress: Heritability and association with disease resistance to Yersinia ruckeri in rainbow trout. Book of Abstracts Aquaculture America.
Palti, Y., Rexroad Iii, C.E., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Silverstein, J., Vallejo, R.L. 2006. Selective breeding and genetic mapping of disease resistance in rainbow trout. Meeting Abstract.
Presented at The 9th International Symposium of The International Association for Genetics in Aquaculture, June 26-30, 2006 at Montpellier, France. Meeting Book of Abstracts p. 81.
Wiens, G.D., Lapatra, S., Palti, Y., Rexroad III, C.E., Yao, J., Welch, T.J. 2006. Gene expression and cellular immune response of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to Yersinia ruckeri: A model system for understanding mechanisms of teleost protective immunity. 10th International Congress, International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, July 1 - 6, 2006. Meeting Abstract. Page 249.
Palti, Y., Rexroad III, C.E., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Silverstein, J. 2005. Characterization of major histocompatibility (MH) haplotypes and their association with desease resistance in rainbow trout. Plant and Animal Genome Conference. Abstract ID P643, page 262.
Welch, T.J. 2005. Characterizaion of a bacteriophage specific for the salmonid pathogen yersinia ruckeri. Evergreen International Phage Meeting. the Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. p. A-43.
Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D. 2005. Construction of a virulent, green fluorescent protein-tagged yersinia ruckeri and detection in trout tissues after intraperitoneal and immersion challenge. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.
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Welch, T.J., Crosa, J. 2005. Novel role of the lipopolysaccharide o1-side chain in ferric-siderophore transport and virulence of vibrio anguillarum. Infection and Immunity Vol. 73 No 9, 5864-5872.
Wiens, G.D., Gahr, S.A., Morrison, C., Palti, Y., Rexroad III, C.E., Rodriguez, M.F., Welch, T.J. 2004. Genomic characterization and expression analysis of a tumor necrosis factor superfamily 13b (tnfsf 13b) homologue from rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss). International Immunology Congress p. 82C (abstract W15.15).
Brazil, B.L., Welch, T.J. 2004. Development of a novel strategy for clearing fish pathogens from recirculating aquaculture systems using bacteriophage. International Aquaculture Meeting. P. 41.
Welch, T.J., Di Lorenzo, M., Crosa, J. 2003. Identification of a siderophore biosynthetic gene from the fish pathogen aeromonas salmonicida. 103d American Society for Microbiology Meeting. p.216.
Di Lorenzo, M., Stork, M., Tolmasky, M.E., Actis, L.A., Farrell, D., Welch, T.J., Crosa, L.M., Wertheimer, A.M., Chen, Q., Salinas, P. 2003. Sequence of virulence plasmid pjm1 from the marine fish pathogen vibrio anguillarum strain 775. Journal of Bacteriology. 185(19):5822.