Faculty Projects and Publications

Johnson, M.C., B. E. Simon, C.H. Kim, and J. C. Leong. 2000. Production of recombinant snakehead rhabdovirus (SHRV): the NV protein is not required for viral replication. J. Virology 74:2343-2350.

Kim, C. H., M. C. Johnson, J. D. Drennan, B. E. Simon, E. Thomann, and J. C. Leong. 2000. DNA Vaccines encoding viral glycoproteins induce non-specific immunity and Mx protein synthesis in fish. J. Virology 74: 7048-7054.

Chiou, P. P., C. H. Kim, P. Ormonde, and J. C. Leong. 2000. The infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus matrix protein inhibits host-directed gene expression and induces morphological changes of apoptosis in cell cultures. J. Virology 74:7619-7627.

Nygaard, R., S. Husgard, A-I. Sommer, J. C. Leong, and B. Robertsen. 2000. Induction of Mx protein by interferon and double-stranded RNA in Salmonid cells. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 10: 435-450.

Simon, B., J. Nomellini, P. Chiou, W. Bingle, J. Thornton, J. Smit, and J. Leong. 2001. Recombinant vaccines against infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus: production by the Caulobacter crescentus S-layer protein secretion system and evaluation in laboratory trials. Dis. Aquat. Org. 44: 17-27.

T. L. Crippen, L. M. Bootland, J. C. Leong, M. S. Fitzpatrick, C. B. Schreck, and A. T. Vella. Analysis of Salmonid Leukocytes Purified by Hypotonic Lysis of Erythrocytes. 2001. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 13: 234-245.

Alonso, M. and J. C. Leong. 2002. Suppressive subtraction libraries to identify interferon-inducibe genes in fish. Marine Biotechnology 4: 74-80.

Alonso, M., M. Johnson, B. Simon, and J. C. Leong. 2003. A specific expression vector containing the interferon regulatory factor 1A (IRF1A) promoter for genetic immunization of fish. Vaccine 21: 1591-1600..

Milston, R.H., A.T. Vella, T. L. Crippen, M. S. Fitzpatrick, J. C. Leong, and C. B. Schreck. 2003. In Vitro Detection of Functional Humoral Immunocompetence in Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) using Flow Cytometry. Developmental and Comparative Immunology15: 145-58.

Milston, R. H., M. S. Fitzpatrick, A. Vella, D. Undersen, G. Feist, S. Clements, T. Crippen, J. Leong, and C. B. Schreck. 2003. Short term exposure of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) to o, p’ DDE or DMSO during early life history stages causes long-term humoral immunosuppression. Environ. Health Perspectives 111: 1601-1608.

Leisy, D., T.D. Lewis, J. C. Leong, and G. Rohrmann. 2003. Transduction of cultured fish cells with recombinant baculoviruses. J. General Virology 84: 1173-1178.

Alonso, M., C. H. Kim, M. C. Johnson, M. Pressley, and J.C. Leong. 2004. The NV gene of snakehead rhabdovirus (SHRV) is not required for pathogenesis and a heterologous glycoprotein can be incorporated into the SHRV envelope. J. Virology 78: 5875-5882.

I. Misumi, A.T. Vella, J.C. Leong, T. Nakanishi, and C.B. Schreck. 2005. p,p’-DDE depresses the immune competence of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) leucocytes. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, in press.

M. Alonso, E. Thomann, I. Misumi, T. Vella, C. Schreck, and J. C. Leong. 2005. Fish Mx protein: a potential environmental biomarker. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, in press.

Hollingsworth, L.L., T.D. Lewis, D.A. Krupp, and J. C. Leong. 2005. Early onset and expression of fluorescent proteins in the larvae of the mushroom coral Fungia scutaria lamarck 1801. Proceedings of the Coral Reef Symposium, 2004, Okinawa, Japan.

Alonso, M., D.A. Stein, E. Thomann, J. C. Leong, and D.V. Mourich. 2005. Inhibition of Fish Rhabdovirus Infection by Targeting Genomic RNA with Peptide-conjugated Morpholino Oligomers. Journal of Fish Diseases, in press.

Lewis, T.D. and J-A. C. Leong. 2004. Viruses of Fish. Chapter 2 in Current Trends in the Study of Bacterial and Viral Fish and Shrimp Diseases. Molecular Aspects of Fish & Marine Biology, Vol. 3, pp. 39-81. ed. K. Y Leung. World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore.

Fautin, D., N. Knowlton, J. Leong. 2005. Proceedings of the U.S. Census of Marine Life Workshop on Coral Reef Biodiversity. August 16-18, 2004 at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

I. Misumi, A.T. Vella, J.C. Leong, T. Nakanishi, and C.B. Schreck. 2005. p,p’-DDE depresses the immune competence of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) leucocytes. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 19:97-114.

Hollingsworth, L.L., R.A. Kinzie III, D. A. Krupp, T. D. Lewis, and J. C. Leong. 2005. Phototaxis of motile zooxanthellae to green light may facilitate symbiont capture by coral larvae. Coral Reefs 24(4):523.

Hagedorn, M., R. Pan, E. F. Cox, L. L. Hollingsworth, D. A. Krupp, T. D. Lewis, J. C. Leong, P. Mazur, W. Rall, D. MacFarlane, G. Fahy, and F. W. Kleinhaus. 2006. Coral larvae conservation physiology and reproduction. Cryobiology 52(1):33-47.

Hagedorn, M., V.L. Carter, R.A. Steyn, D. Krupp, J. C. Leong, R.P. Lang, and T. R. I. Tiersch. 2006. Preliminary studies of sperm cryopreservation in the muschroom coral, Fungia scutaria. Cryobiology 52(3):454-8.

Robertsen, B., J. Zou, C. Secombes, J. Leong. 2006. Molecular and expression analysis of an interferon-gamm inducible guanylate-binding protein from rainbow trout. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 30 (11): 1023-1033.

DeWitte-Orr, S.J., J. C. Leong, and N. C. Bols. 2007. Induction of antiviral genes, Mx and vig-1, by dsRNA and Chuman salmon reovirus in rainbow trout monocyte/macrophage and fibroblast cells lines. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, in press.

Hollingsworth, L. L., T. D. Lewis, and J. C. Leong. 2005. Early onset and expression of fluorescent proteins in the larvae of the mushroom coral, Fungia scutaria Lamarck 1801. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa, Japan, June 28-July 1, 2004, in press.

J. C. Leong. 2006. Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV). In Aquaculture Compendium. CAB International Publishing.

J. C. Leong. 2007. Fish Viruses. In Encyclopedia of Virology. Ed. Brian Mahy.