Peter J. Rombough

Academic Degrees:

BSc: University of British Columbia
MSc: Dalhousie University
PhD: Dalhousie University

Research interests:

Environmental and developmental physiology. In particular, the functional ontogeny of the cardiovascular and respitory systems of fish, energy metabolism and partitioning during development, the dissolved oxygen requirements of developing and adult fish, and the impact of global warming on fish populations.

Representative publications:

Rombough, P. J. 2007. Oxygen as a constraining factor in egg size evolution in salmonids. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (in press).

Rombough, P. J. 2006. Developmental costs and partitioning of metabolic energy. In Comparative Developmental Physiology Contributions, Tools and Trends.  Eds. S. J. Warburton, W.W. Burggren, B. Pelster, C.L. Reiber and J. Spicer, pp. 99-123. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Rombough, P. J. 2004. Gas exchange, ionoregulation and the functional development of the teleost gill. American Fisheries Society Symposium 40: 47-83.

Rombough, P. J. 2003. Modelling developmental time and temperature. Nature 424:268-269.

Rombough, P. J. 2002. Gills are needed for ionoregulation before they are needed for O₂ uptake in developing zebrafish, Danio rerio. Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 1787-1794.