M.L. Martínez-Garcia, Ph.D.

 Dr. M.L. Martinez-Garcia

  • Email: mmartinezgarcia@laurentian.ca

  • Phone: (705) 675-1151 ext.2293

  • Address:

    Biology Department
    Laurentian University
    935 Ramsey Lake Road
    Sudbury, Ontario
    P3E 2C6
    Canada

Research Interests:

My research interests focus fundamentally on animal physiology, and specifically on individual variation of physiological traits and adaptive mechanisms by which animals survive in changing environments. I prefer to combine physiological, biochemical, behavioural and ecological data in order to examine how energetic metabolism in animals is affected when abiotic or biotic factors in their environments change. I work mostly with fish, but I am equally interested in vertebrates in general. My recent interests include the physiology of locomotion in fish and their response to food availability and hypoxia at different stages of development.

 

Select Publications:

Martínez, M., E. Raynard, Rees, B.B. and Chapman, L.J. 2011. Oxygen limitation and tissue metabolic potential of the African fish Barbus neumayeri: roles of native habitat and acclimatization. BMC Ecology 11(1): 2.

Martínez, M.L., Chapman, L.J., and Rees, B.B. 2009.  Population variation in hypoxic responses of the cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus multicolour victoriae. Canadian Journal of Zoology 87:188-194.

Carreau, N.D., Mirza, R. S., Martínez M.L. and Pyle G.G. 2008.  The ontogeny of chemically-mediated antipredator responses of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). The Journal of Fish Biology 73: 2390-2401.

Martínez, M., Landry, C., Boehm, R., Manning, S., Cheek A. O., and Rees, B.B. 2006. Effects of long-term hypoxia on enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism in the Gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis. The Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 3851-3861.

Martínez, M., M. Bédard, J.-D. Dutil and H. Guderley. 2004. Does condition of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) have a greater impact upon swimming performance at Ucrit or sprint speeds? Journal of Experimental Biology 207: 2979-2990.

Martínez, M., L.J. Chapman, J. Grady and B.B.Rees. 2004. Interdemic variation in haematocrit and lactate dehydrogenase in the African cyprinid Barbus neumayeri. The Journal of Fish Biology 65: 1056-1069.

Martínez, M., H. Guderley, J.-D. Dutil, P.D. Winger, P. He, and S.J. Walsh. 2003. Condition, prolonged swimming performance and muscle metabolic capacities of cod (Gadus morhua). Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 503-511.

Martínez, M., H. Guderley, J.A. Nelson, D. Webber and J.-D. Dutil. 2002. Once a fast cod, always a fast cod: maintenance of performance hierarchies through changing food availability in cod (Gadus morhua). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 75: 90-100.

Martínez, M., Dutil, J.-D. and Guderley, H. 2000. Longitudinal and allometric variation in indicators of muscle metabolic capacities in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Journal of Experimental Zoology 287: 38-45

Martínez, M., Couture, P. and Guderley, H. 1999. Temporal changes in tissue metabolic capacities of wild Atlantic cod Gadus morhua (L.) from Newfoundland. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 20: 181-191.
 
 
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