Director, Grice Marine Lab
Professor, Department of Biology
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Ph.D., University of South Carolina
burnettl@cofc.edu
Environmental physiology of marine invertebrates. We study the environmental physiology of animals, the influence of environmental variables on the physiology and biochemistry of animals, the evolution of the transition from water breathing to air breathing in animals, and the effects of environmental variables, especially hypoxia, hypercapnia, and temperature on disease resistance in animals.
Publications:
* Burnett, K. G. and L. E. Burnett. In press. The impacts of hypoxia and hypercapnia on disease resistance in crustaceans. Proceedings of the
Second Annual Fisheries and the Environment of the Russian Federation
Inter-Department Ichthyological Commission, the Russian Academy of
Sciences, the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Russia -
Department of Fisheries, and the U.S. Department of the Interior
Meeting.
* Holman*, J. D., K. G. Burnett, L. E. Burnett. 2004. Effects of hypercapnic hypoxia on the clearance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the
Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. Biol. Bull. 206:188-196.
* Burgents*, J. E., K. G. Burnett, L. E. Burnett. 2004. Disease
resistance of Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, following the
dietary administration of a yeast culture food supplement. Aquaculture
231:1-8.
* Burnett, L., N. Terwilliger, A. Carroll*, D. Jorgensen, D. Scholnick*.
2002. Respiratory and acid-base physiology of the purple sea urchin,
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, during air exposure: Presence and
function of a facultative lung. Biol. Bull. 203:42-50.
* Towle, D. W. and L. E. Burnett. Osmoregulatory, Digestive, and
Respiratory Physiology of the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, Chapter 6.
In Biology of the Blue Crab, Maryland Sea Grant, (in press).
*Boleza*, K. A., Burnett, L. E. and Burnett, K. G. 2001. Hypercapnic
hypoxia compromises bactericidal activity of phagocytic cells against
opportunistic environmental pathogens. Fish and Shellfish Immunology
11:593-610.
* Burnett, L. E. and W. B. Stickle. 2001. Physiological responses to
hypoxia, Pages 101-114 in Nancy N. Rabalais and R. Eugene Turner (eds.),
Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems.
Coastal and Estuarine Studies 58, American Geophysical Union,
Washington, D.C.
*Mikulski*, C. M., Burnett, L. E. and Burnett, K. G. 2000. The effects
of hypercapnic hypoxia on the survival of shrimp challenged with Vibrio
parahaemolyticus. J. Shellfish Res. 19:301-311.
* student
Meetings:
*Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans, LA,
January 2004
* International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, St.
Andrews, Scotland, July 2003
* International Congress on Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Mt.
Buller, Australia, February 2003
* Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, January 2003