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Prof Ian Johnston

Prof Ian Johnston
Professor


 

School Positions
Chandos Professor of Physiology (1997-present)
Director, Scottish Oceans Institute (2012-present)
Director, Gatty Marine Laboratory (1985-2008)
Director of Research, School of Biology (2003-6)
Member, School of Biology Management Group (2000-2006) (2012-present)
Head of School: (Biology & Preclinical Medicine, 1987-1992; Environmental & Evolutionary Biology, 1997-1999)

External Positions
Steering Committee Member of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) – an ESFRI Research Infrastructure in the preparatory phase (2011-2014)
Steering Committee Member of LIFECYCLE an EU-funded FP7 Integrated Research Project (2009-2013)
Vice-President (2005-2007) and President (2007-2009) Society for Experimental Biology
Member of the Natural Environment Research Council & Chairman, Marine Science & Technology Board (1995-2000)
Adjunct Professor, University of Nordland, Norway (2002-2011)

Honours
Elected Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987
Awarded Scientific Medal Zoological Society of London 1984

Research Group
Dr Vera Vieira-Johnston (Honorary Research Fellow)
Dr Daniel J. Macqueen (MASTS Research Fellow)
Dr Daniel Garcia de la serrana (EU-funded)
Dr Thomas Ashton (BBSRC-funded)
Clara Coll-Llado, PhD student/academic apprentice (50% with Dr David Ferrier)

Collaborators
Professor Shugo Watabe, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
Dr Bjarni K. Kristjánsson, Holar University College, Iceland
Dr Robert H. Devlin, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, West Vancouver, Canada
Professor Jorge Fernandes, University of Nordland, Norway
Industrial Partners
Young’s Seafood, SalmoBreed A/S, BioMar, Ewos Innovation

source: symbiosis

 

Recent publications


50  (of 167 published available) for iaj. (source: University of St Andrews PURE)
Please click title of any item for full details.

2018 (5/7)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
vol.6 
(Article)
A collaborative European approach to accelerating translational marine science
Philip Brennecke, Maria Ferrante, Ian Alistair Johnston, David Smith 
Keywords: Marine biotechnology, Microorganisms, Microalgae, Finfish, Research infrastructure, Discovery pipeline, Bioactive compounds

Frontiers in Physiology
vol.9 
(Article)
Duplication of a single myhz1.1 gene facilitated the ability of goldfish (Carassius auratus) to alter fast muscle contractile properties with seasonal temperature change
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Kristin Wreggelsworth, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Skeletal muscle, Teleost, Myosin heavy chain, Temperature, Duplication
2018 (18/7)
Frontiers in Genetics
vol.9 
(Review article)
Genomic tools and selective breeding in molluscs
Christopher Michael Hollenbeck, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Aquaculture, Genomics, SNP genotyping, Heritability, Marker assisted selection, Genomic selection, Molluscs, Selective breeding
2017 (1/7)
Aquaculture
vol.476 pp.59-64
(Article)
A workflow used to design low density SNP panels for parentage assignment and traceability in aquaculture species and its validation in Atlantic salmon
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Aubrie Onoufriou, Borghild Hillestad, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: SNP, Parentage assignment, Atlantic salmon, Traceability, Pedigree, Workflow
2017 (1/6)
General and Comparative Endocrinology
vol.247 pp.53-65
(Article)
Divergent regulation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein genes in cultured Atlantic salmon myotubes under different models of catabolism and anabolism
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Eduardo Nicolas Jofre, Samuel A. M. Martin, Ian Alistair Johnston, Daniel J. Macqueen 
Keywords: Skeletal muscle, Myotubes, Cell culture, Insulin-like growth factor system, Igf binding proteins, Atlantic salmon, Dexamethasone, Interleukin-1β, Amino acids
2016 (9)
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
vol.199 pp.50-57
(Article)
Comparison of the transcriptional responses of skeletal muscle and bone to a flooding dose of leucine in the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Edson A. Mareco, Vera LA Vieira, Deborah M. Power, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: NGS, Muscle, Bone, Expression, Leucine, mTOR, Fast growth, Aquaculture, Skeletal deformities
2015 (15/4)
BMC Research Notes
vol.8 
(Article)
Characterisation and expression analysis of cathepsins and ubiquitin-proteasome genes in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) skeletal muscle
C. Salmerón, I. Navarro, Ian Alistair Johnston, J. Gutiérrez, E. Capilla 
Keywords: White muscle, Ontogeny, Life-history stages, Proteases, Lysosomal proteolysis, Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, Fasting/re-feeding, Teleosts
2015 (14/3)
BMC Genomics
vol.16 
(Article)
Characterization of the transcriptome of fast and slow muscle myotomal fibres in the pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus)
E.A. Mareco, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Ian Alistair Johnston, M. Dal-Pai-Silva 
Keywords: Paralogues, Ubiquitin-specific proteases (USP), Aquaculture genomics
2015 (31/7)
BMC Genomics
vol.16 
(Article)
RNAseq analysis of fast skeletal muscle in restriction-fed transgenic coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Robert Devlin, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Salmon, Growth, Teleost fish, Growth hormone transgenics, Skeletal muscle transcriptome, Fish nutrition
2014 (3)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
vol.281 
(Article)
A well-constrained estimate for the timing of the salmonid whole genome duplication reveals major decoupling from species diversification
Daniel John MacQueen, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Whole genome duplication (WGD), Species diversification, Salmonid fish, Climate change, Evolution, Anadromy
2014 (11/6)
Biology Letters
vol.10 
(Article)
Cardiac myoglobin deficit has evolved repeatedly in teleost fishes
Daniel J. Macqueen, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Myoglobin, Oxygen supply, Fish evolution, Climate change, Thermal tolerance, Limitation, Expression, Oxygen
2014 (1)
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology
vol.167 pp.90-99
(Article)
Characterisation and expression of myogenesis regulatory factors during in vitro myoblast development and in vivo fasting in the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana, Marta Codina, Encamacion Capilla, Vanesa Jimenez-Amilburu, Isabel Navarro, Shao-Jun Du, Ian Alistair Johnston, Joaquim Gutierrez 
Keywords: Mrf4, Myf5, Myod, Myogenesis, Myogenin, Pax7, Primary cell cultures, Sox8, TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS-MYKISS, MUSCLE PROGENITOR CELLS, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, RAINBOW-TROUT, GENE-EXPRESSION, SATELLITE CELLS, IGF-I, COMPENSATORY GROWTH, MYOSATELLITE CELLS, ATLANTIC SALMON
2014 (1/10)
Journal of Experimental Biology
vol.217 pp.3392-3395
(Article)
Muscle fibre size optimisation provides flexibility for energy budgeting in calorie-restricted coho salmon transgenic for growth hormone
Ian Alistair Johnston, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, R.H. Devlin 
Keywords: Growth, Myotube formation, Transgenesis, Optimal fibre size hypothesis
2014 (30/9)
BMC Genomics
vol.15 
(Article)
Profiling of the embryonic Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.) transcriptome reveals maternal transcripts as potential markers of embryo quality
Jorge Fernandes, Knut Erik Tollefsen, Ian Alistair Johnston, Igor Babiak 
Keywords: Atlantic halibut, Egg quality, Embryonic development, Maternal transcripts, Microarray, Transcriptome, Trout oncorhynchus-mykiss, Messenger-RNA stockpile, Primordial germ-cells, Developmental competence, Gene-expression, Flesh quality, Dead-end, Zebrafish, Migration
2014 (4)
Genome Biology and Evolution
vol.6 pp.981-7
(Article)
Systematic variation in the pattern of gene paralog retention between the teleost superorders Ostariophysi and Acanthopterygii
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana, Edson A Mareco, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Fish evolution, Ploidy, Gene loss, Whole-genome duplication
2013 (25/9)
PLoS One
vol.8 
(Article)
Characterisation and expression of calpain family members in relation to nutritional status, diet composition and flesh texture in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)
Cristina Salmeron, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Vanesa Jimenez-Amilburu, Ramon Fontanillas, Isabel Navarro, Ian Alistair Johnston, Joaquim Gutierrez, Encarnacion Capilla 
Keywords: Trout oncorhynchus-mykiss, Calcium-dependent protease, Bass dicentrarchus-labrax, Muscle-specific calpain, Skeletal-muscle, Atlantic salmon, Growth dynamics, Myofibril fragmentation, Longissimus muscle, Messenger-RNA
2013 (5)
Molecular Biology and Evolution
vol.30 pp.1060-1076
(Article)
Evolution of ancient functions in the vertebrate insulin-like growth factor system uncovered by study of duplicated salmonid fish genomes
Daniel John MacQueen, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Ian Alistair Johnston 
2013 (6/9)
PLoS One
vol.8 
(Article)
Expression of heat shock protein (Hsp90) paralogues is regulated by amino acids in skeletal muscle of Atlantic salmon
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Ian Alistair Johnston 
2013 (5)
Reviews in Aquaculture
vol.5 pp.S168-S193
(Review article)
What determines growth potential and juvenile quality of farmed fish species?
Luisa M. P. Valente, Katerina A. Moutou, Luis E. C. Conceicao, Sofia Engrola, Jorge Fernandes, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: aquaculture, fish growth, methodology to assess growth, myogenesis, protein accretion, skeletal muscle ontogeny, BASS DICENTRARCHUS-LABRAX, EUROPEAN SEA-BASS, TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS-MYKISS, COD GADUS-MORHUA, HALIBUT HIPPOGLOSSUS-HIPPOGLOSSUS, BREAM SPARUS-AURATA, TURBOT SCOPHTHALMUS-MAXIMUS, SOLE SOLEA-SENEGALENSIS, HERRING CLUPEA-HARENGUS, MUSCLE-FIBER TYPES
2012 (1)
American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
vol.302 pp.R193-R206
(Article)
Circadian expression of clock and putative clock-controlled genes in skeletal muscle of the zebrafish
Ian Alistair Johnston 
2012 (17/12)
PLoS One
vol.7 
(Article)
Development temperature has persistent effects on muscle growth responses in gilthead sea bream
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Vera Lucia Almeida Vieira-Johnston, Karl B Andree, Maria Darias, Alicia Estévez, Enric Gisbert, Ian Alistair Johnston 
2012 (11/5)
BMC Genomics
vol.13 
(Article)
Fast skeletal muscle transcriptome of the Gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) determined by next generation sequencing
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Alicia Estevez, Karl Andree, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Teleost, Gene paralogues, Splice variants, Newbler, Roche 454, Myogenesis
2012 (28/12)
British Journal of Nutrition
vol.108 pp.2148-2157
(Article)
Postprandial expression of growth-related genes in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) juveniles fasted for 1 week and fed a single meal to satiation
Luisa M. P. Valente, Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Salmo salar L., Myogenesis, Refeeding and fasting, Nutrient availability, Insulin-like growth factor system, TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS-MYKISS, MESSENGER-RNA EXPRESSION, GILTHEAD SEA BREAM, RAINBOW-TROUT, COMPENSATORY GROWTH, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, FACTOR-I, IGF-I, SIGNALING PATHWAYS, REGULATORY FACTORS
2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
vol.109 pp.14247-14252
(Article)
Temperature during embryonic development has persistent effects on thermal acclimation capacity in zebrafish
Graham Robert Scott, Ian Alistair Johnston 
2012 (7/6)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
vol.279 pp.2255-2261
(Article)
Universal scaling rules predict evolutionary patterns of myogenesis in species with indeterminate growth
Ian Alistair Johnston, Bjarni K. Kristjansson, Charles G. M. Paxton, Vera Lucia Almeida Vieira-Johnston, Daniel John MacQueen, Michael A. Bell 
Keywords: Parallel evolution, Dwarfism, Muscle fibres, Threespine stickleback, Arctic charr, Scaling laws
2011 (5)
Journal of Experimental Biology
vol.214 pp.1617-1628
(Review article)
Growth and the regulation of myotomal muscle mass in teleost fish
Ian Alistair Johnston, Neil Ivan Bower, Daniel John MacQueen 
Keywords: muscle fibre, myogenic precursor cell, myoblast fusion, muscle gene paralogue, muscle protein synthesis, muscle protein breakdown, muscle growth model, TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS-MYKISS, THICK FILAMENT FORMATION, ZEBRAFISH DANIO-RERIO, IN-VITRO ASSESSMENT, SALMON SALMO-SALAR, HEAVY-CHAIN GENES, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, ATLANTIC SALMON, SIGNALING PATHWAYS, MYOBLAST FUSION
2011
Journal of Experimental Biology
vol.214 pp.2125-2139
(Article)
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signalling and genome-wide transcriptional regulation in fast muscle of zebrafish following a single-satiating meal
Ian Alistair Johnston 
2011
Molecular Ecology
vol.20 pp.3167-3184
(Article)
The parallel evolution of dwarfism in Arctic charr is accompanied by adaptive divergence in mTOR-pathway gene expression
Daniel John MacQueen, Bjarni K. Kristjánsson, Charles G. M. Paxton, Vera Lucia Almeida Vieira-Johnston, Ian Alistair Johnston 
2010 (8)
Molecular Biology and Evolution
vol.27 pp.1886-1902
(Article)
A Newly Classified Vertebrate Calpain Protease, Directly Ancestral to CAPN1 and 2, Episodically Evolved a Restricted Physiological Function in Placental Mammals
Daniel John MacQueen, Margaret L. Delbridge, Sujatha Manthri, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: CAPN11 and mu, m-CAPN, episodic gene evolution, functional divergence of gene family orthologues, transcriptional regulation, functional constraints, Dykhuizen-Hartl effect, GENE DUPLICATION, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, DIVERGENCE, EVOLUTION, SELECTION, EXPRESSION, IDENTIFICATION, CALPASTATIN, PREDICTION, MODELS
2010 (5)
Journal of Food Science
vol.75 pp.182-190
(Article)
A Novel Tensile Test Method to Assess Texture and Gaping in Salmon Fillets
Ian Michie, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Atlantic salmon, flesh quality, gaping, soft flesh, tensile strength, texture analysis, ATLANTIC SALMON, FLESH QUALITY, SALAR L., WHITE MUSCLE, FISH, RAW, COLOR, SLAUGHTER, CALPAIN, PRODUCT
2010 (28/5)
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
vol.396 pp.265-271
(Article)
Characterisation and differential regulation of MAFbx/Atrogin-1 alpha and beta transcripts in skeletal muscle of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Neil Ivan Bower, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: MAFbx, Atrogin-1, Atlantic salmon, Alternative splicing, UBIQUITIN-LIGASE, TERMINATION-CODON, ATROPHY, EXPRESSION, ATROGIN-1, PATHWAY, INSULIN, GROWTH, ATROGIN1/MAFBX, TURNOVER
2010 (15/3)
Gene
vol.453 pp.45-58
(Article)
Characterisation of capn1, capn2-like, capn3 and capn11 genes in Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.): Transcriptional regulation across tissues and in skeletal muscle at distinct nutritional states
Daniel John MacQueen, Lara Jane Meischke, Sujatha Manthri, Attia Anwar, Christel Solberg, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Calpain family, Atlantic halibut, Teleost fish, Calpain-1/calpain-2-like/calpain-3/calpain-11, Phylogenetic reconstruction, Nutritional state of skeletal muscle, MUSCULAR-DYSTROPHY TYPE-2A, MESSENGER-RNA LEVELS, KAPPA-B PATHWAY, REAL-TIME PCR, PROTEOLYTIC PATHWAYS, CALPAIN SYSTEM, RAINBOW-TROUT, IN-VITRO, EXPRESSION, EVOLUTION
2010 (29/9)
Physiological Genomics
vol.42A pp.114-130
(Article)
Discovery and characterization of nutritionally regulated genes associated with muscle growth in Atlantic salmon
Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: myogenesis, nutrition, refeeding, fasting, heat shock proteins, myogenic cells, UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE, TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS-MYKISS, C-TERMINAL REGION, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, SATELLITE CELLS, RAINBOW-TROUT, MYOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION, HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE, TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, UBIQUITIN LIGASES
2010 (6)
American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
vol.298 pp.1615-1626
(Article)
Paralogs of Atlantic salmon myoblast determination factor genes are distinctly regulated in proliferating and differentiating myogenic cells
Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: myoblast, myogenesis, cell cycle, amino acid stimulation, genome duplication, subfunctionalization, myoD, MUSCLE SATELLITE CELLS, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, GROWTH-FACTOR, TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL, EARLY EXPRESSION, PRECURSOR CELLS, SELF-RENEWAL, TELEOST FISH, SALAR L., MYOD
2010 (1/10)
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
vol.400 pp.599-605
(Article)
Positioning the expanded akirin gene family of Atlantic salmon within the transcriptional networks of myogenesis
Daniel John MacQueen, Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: akirin gene family paralogues, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), Myogenesis, Gene paralogue regulation, PROMYOGENIC FACTOR, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, EXPRESSION, GROWTH, PCR, BINDING, SYSTEM, MIGHTY, MYOD
2010 (6)
Physiological Genomics
vol.42 pp.134-148
(Article)
Salmonid genomes have a remarkably expanded akirin family, coexpressed with genes from conserved pathways governing skeletal muscle growth and catabolism
Daniel John MacQueen, Bjarni K. Kristjansson, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Salmonidae family, phylogenetic analysis, phosphorylation, hierarchical clustering, SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE, FUNCTIONAL DIVERGENCE, PROMYOGENIC FACTOR, ATLANTIC SALMON, RAINBOW-TROUT, PCR DATA, EXPRESSION, EVOLUTION, PROTEINS, 14-3-3-PROTEINS
2010 (11)
Nucleic Acids Research
vol.38 
(Article)
Targeted rapid amplification of cDNA ends (T-RACE)-an improved RACE reaction through degradation of non-target sequences
Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Uracil DNA Glycosylase, Contamination
2010 (14/6)
PLoS One
vol.5 
(Article)
Transcriptional regulation of the IGF signaling pathway by amino acids and insulin-like growth factors during myogenesis in Atlantic salmon
Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Muscle-cell differentiation, Trout oncorhynchus-mykiss, Factor binding protein-5, Factor-II receptor, Skeletal-muscle, Gene-expression, In-vitro, Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, Messenger-RNA, C2C12 myoblasts
2009 (15/6)
Journal of Experimental Biology
vol.212 pp.1781-1793
(Article)
Embryonic temperature affects muscle fibre recruitment in adult zebrafish: genome-wide changes in gene and microRNA expression associated with the transition from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth phenotypes.
Ian Alistair Johnston, Daniel John MacQueen, Karthikeyani Paranthaman, C Kawashima , James Robertson Kinghorn, Tamas Dalmay  
Keywords: Danio rerio, microRNA, developmental plasticity, temperature, muscle growth, muscle hyperplasia, gene expression, myosin heavy chains, beta-2-microglobulin, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, MYOBLAST FUSION, ATLANTIC SALMON, TARGET INTERACTIONS, TELEOST FISH, CELL, MIR-206, MYOGENESIS, MICE, DIFFERENTIATION
2009 (6/2)
BMC Evolutionary Biology
vol.9 
(Article)
Evolution of the multifaceted eukaryotic akirin gene family
Daniel John MacQueen, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: NF-KAPPA-B, Genome duplication, Drosophila-melanogaster, Functional divergence, Phylogenetic analysis, Sequence alignments, Maximum-likelihood, Nuclear export, In-vitro, 2 rounds
2009 (1)
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
vol.152 pp.47-53
(Article)
Expression of growth-related genes in muscle during fasting and refeeding of juvenile Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.
Ian Alistair Johnston, J M O Fernandes, C Solberg, I A Johnston 
Keywords: Atlantic halibut, Cathepsin, Fasting, Refeeding, Reference gene, IGF, MESSENGER-RNA EXPRESSION, BASS DICENTRARCHUS-LABRAX, COD GADUS-MORHUA, COMPENSATORY GROWTH, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, FACTOR-I, IGF-II, LYSOSOMAL-ENZYME, INSULIN, STARVATION
2009 (9)
Journal of muscle research and cell motility
vol.30 pp.233-242
(Article)
Gene expression analyses of essential catch factors in the smooth and striated adductor muscles of larval, juvenile and adult great scallop (Pecten maximus)
Oivind Andersen, Jacob S. Torgersen, Helene H. Pagander, Thorolf Magnesen, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Great scallop, Smooth adductor, Catch, Twitchin, Calcineurin, Myorod, Myosin, MYOSIN HEAVY-CHAIN, PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE, REGULATORY DOMAIN, MOLLUSCAN MUSCLES, CROSS-REACTIVITY, 2 SUBUNITS, CALCINEURIN, TWITCHIN, PHOSPHORYLATION, CLONING
2009 (24/8)
Frontiers in Zoology
vol.6 
(Article)
Phasing of muscle gene expression with fasting-induced recovery growth in Atlantic salmon
Neil Ivan Bower, Richard G. Taylor, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Trout oncorhynchus-mykiss, Skeletal-muscle, Rainbow-trout, Juvenile salmon, Salar L., Regulatory factors, Energy-metabolism, Ubiquitin-ligase, Protein-synthesis, Enzyme-activities
2009 (10/8)
BMC Molecular Biology
vol.10 pp.-
(Article)
Selection of reference genes for expression studies with fish myogenic cell cultures
Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Real-time PCR, Differential expression, Housekeeping genes, Skeletal-muscle, Myoblast fusion, Beta-actin, In-vitro, RT-PCR, Messenger, RNA
2008 (23/7)
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
vol.56 pp.5953-5959
(Article)
Activity of Aspargate (Cathepsin D), Cysteine Proteases (Cathepsins B, B + L, and H), and Matrix Metallopeptidase (Collagenase) and their influence on protein and water-holding capacity of muscle in commercially farmed Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossuss L.).
Ian Alistair Johnston, C Solberg, I A Johnston 
Keywords: farmed Atlantic halibut, seasonal effect, water-holding capacity, cathepsin, collagenase, SALMON SALMO-SALAR, DICENTRARCHUS-LABRAX L., POLLACHIUS-VIRENS L, COD GADUS-MORHUA, MYOFIBRILLAR PROTEINS, SEASONAL-VARIATIONS, LYSOSOMAL-ENZYME, INHIBITORS, DEGRADATION, STARVATION
2008 (6/2)
PLoS One
vol.3 
(Article)
An update on MyoD evolution in teleosts and a proposed consensus nomenclature to accommodate the tetraploidization of different vertebrate genomes
Daniel John MacQueen, Ian Alistair Johnston 
2008 (11)
Genetica
vol.134 pp.325-334
(Article)
Effect of natural selection on the duplicated lysyl oxidase gene in Atlantic salmon.
Ian Alistair Johnston, I A Johnston 
Keywords: adaptive evolution, collagen cross-links, lysyl oxidase, positive selection, Salmo salar, AMINO-ACID SITES, POSITIVE SELECTION, DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER, DNA POLYMORPHISM, EVOLUTION, POPULATIONS, NEUTRALITY, MUSCLE, GROWTH, SALAR
2008 (1)
Development Genes and Evolution
vol.218 pp.1-14
(Article)
Evolution of follistatin in teleosts revealed through phylogenetic, genomic and expression analyses
Ian Alistair Johnston, Daniel John MacQueen 
Keywords: Fst evolution, whole genome duplication (WGD), subfunctionalization, anterior somite compartment, embryonic myogenesis, MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS, RECIPROCAL GENE LOSS, DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS, SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT, ACTIVIN-BINDING, MUSCLE, ZEBRAFISH, DUPLICATION, TETRAODON, PROTEIN
2008 (4)
Genomics
vol.91 pp.315-325
(Article)
Genomic, evolutionary, and expression analyses of cee, an ancient gene involved in normal growth and development.
Jorge Fernandes, D J Macqueen, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: cee, conserved edge-expressed protein, myogenesis, development, purifying selection, MUSCLE-FIBER NUMBER, SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE, PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE, ATLANTIC SALMON, FISH, PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH, YEAST, VERTEBRATES, MODELS
2008 (7)
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology
vol.150 
(Article)
Intra-specific variation in muscle fibre phenotype
Ian Alistair Johnston, I. P. G. Amaral, V. L. A. Vleira 
Keywords: NUMBER

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Scottish Oceans Institute
East Sands
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 8LB
Fife
UK

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