Selected Publications:

Stickle, W.B., M. Lindeberg, and S.D. Rice 2010. Seasonal freezing adaptations of the mid- intertidal gastropod Nucella limafrom southeast Alaska. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 395:106-111. [ PDF ]

Bates, A.E., W.B. Stickle, and C. Harley 2010. Impact of temperature on an emerging parasitic association between a sperm-feeding scuticociliate and Northeast Pacific sea stars. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 384:44-50. [ PDF ]

Stickle, W.B. and S.D. Rice. 2009. Effects of seasonal variation in water and air temperature on the righting response of Leptasterias spp. from the West Coast of North America. Pp. 403-407 in: Echinoderms: Durham ( Ed. L. G. Harris, S. A. Bottiger, C.W. Walker, and M.P. Lesser), University of New Hampshire Durham, New Hampshire, USA A.A. CRC Press, Boca Raton. [ PDF ]

Stickle, W.B., and E.N. Kozloff. 2008. On the association and distribution of the ciliate Orchitophrya stellarum with asteriid sea stars on the west coast of North America. Diseases of Aquatic Animals 80:37-43. [ PDF ]

Stickle, W,B., H.J. Wyler, and T.H. Dietz. 2007. Effects of salinity on juvenile crab physiology and agonistic interactions between two species of juvenile blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus and Callinectes similis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 352:361-370. [ PDF ]