Biology

Marc Weissburg, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1990
marc.weissburg@biology.gatech.edu
Phone: (404) 894-8433
Fax: (404) 894-0519
Office: Cherry Merson 329,326

Publications

Smee, D.L. and M.J. Weissburg . In press. Hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) evaluate predation risk using chemical signals from predators and injured conspecifics. Journal of Chemical Ecology.

Smee, D.L. and M.J. Weissburg.  2006. Claming up: environmental force diminish the perceptive ability of bivalve prey.  Ecology. 87: 1587­1598 (PDF)

Woodson, C.B., D.R. Webster, M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. Environmental gradients elicit behavioral responses in the calanoid copepod, Temora longicornis: Ecological implications of oceanographic structure. Limnol. Oceangr.

Woodson, C.B., D.R. Webster M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. 2005. Response of copepods to physical gradients associated with structure in the open ocean. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50: 1552-1564 (PDF)

Fields, D.M. and M.J. Weissburg. 2005. Evolutionary and ecological significance of mechanosenor morphology: copepods as a model system. In, Weissburg, MJ and HI Browman (eds), Sensory Biology: Linking the internal and external ecologies of marine organisms.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 287: 269-274. (PDF)

Ferner, M.C., and Weissburg, M.J. 2005. Slow-moving predatory gastropods track prey
odors in fast and turbulent flow. J Exp Biol 208: 809-819. (PDF)

Fields, D.M., and M.J. Weissburg. 2004. Rapid firing rates from mechanosensory neurons in copepod antennules. J. comp. Physiol. 190: 877-882.

Horner, A.J., Weissburg, M.J, and C.D. Derby. 2004. Dual antennular chemosensory pathways can mediate orientation by Caribbean spiny lobsters in naturalistic flow conditions. J. exp. Biol. 207:3785-3796. (PDF)

Keller, T. and M.J. Weissburg. 2004.  The effects of odor flux and pulse rate on chemosensory tracking in turbulent odor plumes by the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. Biol. Bull. 207:44-55.

Keller, T.A., I. Powell, and M.J. Weissburg. 2003. The identity and role of olfactory appendages in chemically mediated orientation in blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 261:217-231. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J., C.P James, D.L. Smee and D.R. Webster. 2003. Fluid mechanics produces conflicting constraints during olfactory navigation of blue crabs, Calinectes sapidus. J. exp. Biol. 206: 171-180. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J. and D.B. Dusenbery. 2002. Behavioral observations and computer simulations of blue crab movement to a chemical source in controlled turbulent flow. J. exp. Biol. 205: 3387-3398. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J, D.B. Dusenbery, H. Ishida, J. Janata, T. Keller, P.J.W. Roberts, D.R. Webster.  2002. A multidisciplinary study of spatial and temporal scales containing information in turbulent chemical plume tracking. J. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 2:65-94. (invited paper). (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J., M.C. Ferner, D.P. Pisut, and D.L. Smee. 2002. The ecology of chemically-mediated prey perception. J. Chem. Ecol. 28:1933-1950 (invited paper).

Fields, D.M., D.S. Shaeffer, M.J. Weissburg. 2002. Mechanical and neural responses from the mechanosensory hairs on the antennule of Gaussia princeps. Marine Ecol. Prog. Ser. 227: 173-186. (PDF)

Webster, D.R. and M.J. Weissburg. 2001. Chemosensory guidance cues in a turbulent chemical plume. Limnology and Oceanography 46:1034-1047. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J.  2001. Sex, sensitivity, and second messengers: differential effect of cyclic nucleotide mediated inhibition in the chemosensory system of fiddler crabs. J. Comp. Physiol. A 187: 489-498.

Weissburg, M.J., C.D. Derby, O. Johnson, B.  Mcalvin, and J.M. Moffett, Jr. 2001. Transexual limb transplants in fiddler crabs and the expression of novel sensory capabilities. J. Comp. Neurology 44: 311-320.

Preston, B.L., T.W. Snell, D.M. Fields and M.J. Weissburg.  2001.  The effects of fluid motion  on toxicant sensitivity of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus. Aquatic Toxicology 52:117-131.

Weissburg, M.J.  2000. The fluid dynamical context of chemosensory behavior. Biol. Bull. 198:188-202.

Weissburg, M.J.  1999. Sex-specific tuning and dose – response functions in male and female fiddler crabs, Uca pugnax. J. Comp. Physiol. A  353:787-804.

Weissburg, M.J., M.H. Doall, J. Yen.  1998.  Following the invisible trail:  Kinematic analysis
            of mate tracking in the copepod Temora longicornis. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 353:701-712.

Yen, J., M.J. Weissburg, M.H. Doall.  1998.  The fluid physics of signal perception by mate  tracking copepods.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 353: 787-804.

Weissburg, M.J.  1997.  Chemo – and Mechanosensory orientation by crustaceans in laminar and turbulent flows:  From odor trails to vortex streets.  M. Lehrer, Ed.  Orientation and communication in Arthropods , Birkhauser.

Weissburg, M.J., J. Pearce, C.K. Govind, and C.D. Derby. 1996. Sexually dimorphic patterns of neural organization in the feeding appendages of fiddler crabs. Cell and Tissue Research 286:155-166. 

Weissburg, M.J. and C.D. Derby.  1995. Regulation of sex-specific feeding behavior in fiddler crabs: Physiological properties of chemoreceptor neurons in claws and legs of males and females. J. Comp. Physiol. A 176:513-526.   

Weissburg, M.J. and R.K Zimmer-Faust. 1994.  Odor plumes and how blue crabs use them to find prey.  J. exp. Biol. 197:349-375. 

Moore, P.A., M.J. Weissburg, R.K. Zimmer-Faust, J.M. Parrish, and G.A. Gerhardt.  1994. The spatial distribution of odors in simulated benthic boundary layer flows. J. Chemical  Ecology 20:255-279 .

Weissburg, M.J. and R.K. Zimmer-Faust. 1993. Life and death in moving fluids: Hydrodynamic effects on chemosensory-mediated predation.  Ecology 74:1428-1443. 

Weissburg, M.J. 1993. Sex and the single forager: Gender-specific energy maximizing strategies in the fiddler crab Uca pugnax.  Ecology 74:279-291.