Biography and Research Interest

Research interests are: molecular and cellular mechanisms during oogenesis, folliculogenesis, and oocyte differentiation and maturation. Aquaporins in oocytes and embryos.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Cerdà J.L., Petrino T.R. and Wallace R.A. (1993). Functional heterologous gap junctions in Fundulus ovarian follicles maintain meiotic arrest and permit hydration during oocyte maturation. Developmental Biology 160, 228-235.

Cerdà J., Carrillo M., Zanuy S., Ramos J. and de la Higuera M. (1994). Influence of nutritional composition of diet on sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax L., reproductive performance and egg and larval quality. Aquaculture 128, 345-361.

Cerdà J., Carrillo M., Zanuy S. and Ramos J. (1994). Effect of food ration on annual estrogen and vitellogenin plasma levels, fecundity and larval survival in captive sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax: preliminary observations. Aquatic Living Resources 7, 255-266.

Kah O., Zanuy S., Pradelles P., Cerdà J.L. and Carrillo M. (1994). An Enzyme immunoassay for salmon-GnRH and its application to the study of the effects of diet on brain and pituitary GnRH in the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.). General and Comparative Endocrinology 95, 464-474.

Cerdà J., Zanuy S., Carrillo M., Ramos J. and Serrano R. (1995). Short- and long-term dietary effects on female sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax): seasonal changes in plasma profiles of lipids and sex steroids in relation to reproduction. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 111C, 83-91.

Carrillo M., Zanuy S., Prat F., Cerdà J., Ramos J., Mañanós E. and Bromage N. (1995). Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). In: Broodstock Management and Egg and Larval Quality (R.J. Roberts and N. Bromage, eds), pp 138-168, Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, Great Britain.

Carrillo M., Zanuy S., Prat F., Cerdà J., Mañanós E., Bromage N., Ramos J. and Kah O. (1995). Nutritional and photoperiodic effects on hormonal cycles and quality of spawning in the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Netherlands Journal of Zoology 45, 204-209.

Cerdà J., Petrino T.R., Lin Y.-W.P. and Wallace R.A. (1995). Inhibition of Fundulus heteroclitus oocyte maturation in vitro by serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine). Journal of Experimental Zoology 273, 224-233.

Subhedar N., Cerdà J. and Wallace R.A. (1996). Neuropeptide Y in the forebrain and retina of the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus. Cell and Tissue Research 283, 313-323.

Cerdà J., Calman, B.G., LaFleur G.J. Jr. and Limesand S. (1996). Pattern of vitellogenesis and follicle maturational competence during the ovarian follicular cycle of Fundulus heteroclitus. General and Comparative Endocrinology 103, 24-35.

Cerdà J., Selman K. and Wallace R.A. (1996). Observations on oocyte maturation and hydration in vitro in the black sea bass, Centropristis striata (Serranidae). Aquatic Living Resources 9, 325-335.

Garcia-Rejón L., Sanchez-Muros M.J., Cerdà J. and de la Higuera M. (1997). Fructose 1,6 bisphosphatase activity in liver and gonads of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Influence of diet composition and stage of the reproductive cycle. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 16, 93-105.

Cerdà J., Petrino T.R., Landin A.M. and Lin Y.-W.P. (1997). Effects of the isoquinolinesulfonamide H-8 on Fundulus heteroclitus ovarian follicles: Role of cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinases on steroidogenesis and oocyte maturation in vitro. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 117C, 75-81.

Cerdà J., Petrino T.R., Greenberg M.J. and Wallace R.A. (1997). Pharmacology of the serotonergic inhibition of steroid-induced reinitiation of oocyte meiosis in the teleost Fundulus heteroclitus. Molecular Reproduction and Development 48, 282-291.

Subhedar N., Cerdà J., Calman B. and Wallace R.A. (1997). Changes in forebrain and pituitary dopamine and serotonin contents of female Fundulus during its biweekly reproductive cycle. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 118A, 577-584.

Cerdà J., Zanuy S. and Carrillo M. (1997). Evidence for dietary effects on plasma levels of sexual steroids during spermatogenesis in the sea bass. Aquaculture International 5, 473-477.

Cerdà J., Selman K., Hsiao S.-H. and Wallace R.A. (1997). Evidence for the differential regulation of ovarian follicle responsiveness to human chorionic gonadotropin in vitro in a serranid teleost, Centropristis striata. Aquaculture 159, 143-157.

Cerdà J., Reich G., Wallace R.A. and Selman K. (1998). Serotonin inhibition of steroid-induced meiotic maturation in the teleost Fundulus heteroclitus: role of cyclic AMP and protein kinases. Molecular Reproduction and Development 49, 333-341.

Cerdà J., Subhedar N., Reich G., Wallace R.A. and Selman K. (1998). Oocyte sensitivity to serotonergic regulation during the follicular cycle of the teleost Fundulus heteroclitus. Biology of Reproduction 59, 53-61.

Sorbera L., Asturiano J.F., Carillo M., Cerdà J., Kime D. and Zanuy S. (1999). In vitro oocyte maturation in the sea bass: effects of hCG, pituitary extract and steroids. Journal of Fish Biology 55, 9-25.

Carrillo M., Zanuy S., Oyen F., Cerdà J., Navas J.M. and Ramos, J. (2000). Some criteria of the quality of the progeny as indicators of physiological broodstock fitness. In: Recent Advances in Mediterranean Aquaculture Finfish Species Diversification. Proc. Sem. CIHEAM Network on Technology of Aquaculture in the Mediterranean (TECAM), Zaragoza, Spain, 24-28 may, 1999. Cah. Options Méditerr.Vol 47, 2000, pp 61-73.

Selman K., Wallace R.A. and Cerdà J. (2001). Bafilomycin A1 inhibits proteolytic cleavage and hydration but not yolk crystal disassembly and meiosis during maturation of sea bass oocytes. Journal of Experimental Zoology 290, 265-278

García-Reyero N., Raldúa D., Llaveria G., Cerdà J., Barceló D., Grimalt J.O., Piña B. (2004). Use of vitellogenin mRNA as a marker for endocrine disruption in feral and caged fish. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 378:670-675.

Fabra M., Cerdà J. (2004). Ovarian cysteine proteinases in the teleost Fundulus heteroclitus: molecular cloning and gene expression during vitellogenesis and oocyte maturation. Molecular Reproduction and Development 67:282-294.

Santos C.R.A., Estevao M.D., Fuentes J., Cardoso J.C.R., Fabra M., Detmers F.J., Deen P.M.T., Cerdà J., Power D.M. (2004). Isolation of a novel aquaglyceroporin from a marine teleost (Sparus auratus): function and tissue distribution. Journal of Experimental Biology 207:1217-1227.

Fabra M., Raldúa D., Power D.M., Deen M.T., Cerdà J. (2005). Marine fish egg hydration is aquaporin-mediated. Science 307:545.

LaFleur G.J.Jr., Raldúa D., Fabra M., Carnevali O., Denslow N., Wallace R.A., Cerdà J. (2005). Derivation of major yolk proteins from parental vitellogenins and alternative processing during oocyte maturation in Fundulus heteroclitus. Biology of Reproduction 73:815-824.