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Gamete Biology Laboratory
Department of Animal Science 

UC Davis - The University of California, Davis

Trish Berger.
 

Selected Publications 

  1. Pearl, CA, At-Taras E, Berger T and Roser JF. 2007. Reduced endogenous estrogen delays epididymal development but has no effect on efferent duct morphology in boars. Reproduction 134: 593–604.

  2. Corbin CJ, Hughes AL, Heffelfinger JR, Berger T, Waltzek TB, Roser JF, Santos TC, Miglino MA, Oliveira MF, Braga FC, Meirelles FV, Conley AJ. 2007. Evolution of suiform aromatases: ancestral duplication with conservation of tissue-specific expression in the collared peccary (Pecari tayassu) J Molecular Evololution doi: 10.1007/s00239-007-9021-0.

  3. Berger T, McCarthy, M, Pearl CA, At-Taras E, , Roser JF, Conley, A. Reducing endogenous estrogens during the neonatal and juvenile periods affects reproductive tract development and sperm production in postpuberal boars. Animal Reproduction Science (in press).

  4. At-Taras EE, Conley AJ, Berger T, Roser JF. 2006. Reducing estrogen synthesis does not affect gonadotropin secretion in the developing boar. Biology of Reproduction  74:58-66.

  5. Bou Khalil M, Chakrabandhu K, Xu H, Weerachatyanukul W, Buhr M, Berger T, Carmona E, Vuong N, Kumarathasan P, Wong PT, Carrier D, and Tanphaichitr N.  2006. Sperm capacitation induces an increase in lipid rafts having zona pellucida binding ability and containing sulfogalactosylglycerolipid. Developmental Biology  290:220-35. 

  6. At-Taras EE, Berger T, McCarthy MJ, Conley AJ, Nitta-Oda BS, andRoser JF.  2006. Reducing estrogen synthesis increases testis size and total sperm production in developing boars. Journal of Andrology 27:552-559. 

  7. McCarthy MJ, At-Taras EE, Pearl CA, Nitta-Oda BS, Roser JF, Conley AJ, and Berger T.  2006. Suppression of endogenous estrogen during development affects porcine epididymal sperm maturation. Molecular Reproduction and Development 73:1122-1128. 

  8. Berger T. 2006. Sperm Capacitation.  In:  Encyclopedia of Animal Science. 

  9. Pearl CA, Berger T, Roser, JF. 2006. Estrogen and androgen receptor expression in relation to steroid concentrations in the adult boar epididymis.  Domestic Animal Endocrinology. doi:10.1016/j.domaniend.2006.09.003. 

  10. Ramesh R, Pearl CA, At-Taras E, Roser JF, Berger, T.  2006. Ontogeny of androgen and estrogen receptor expression in porcine testis: effect of reducing testicular estrogen synthesis. Animal Reproduction Science doi:10.1016.janireprosci.2006.10.025. 

  11. At-Taras E, Kim I, Berger T, Conley A, Roser JF. 2006. Reducing endogenous estrogen during development alters hormone production by porcine Leydig cells and seminiferous tubules. Domestic Animal Endocrinology doi:10.1016/j.domaniend.2006.11.003. 

  12. Tanphaichitr N, Carmona E, Bou Khalil M, Xu H, Berger T, and Gerton GL. 2006.New insights into sperm-zona pellucida interaction:  involvement of sperm lipid rafts.  Frontiers in Bioscience. doi:10.2741/2186. 

  13. Ducummon C, and Berger T.  2006. Localization of the rho GTPases and some rho effector proteins in the sperm of several mammalian species. Zygote 14:249-257. 

  14. Wu KL, and Berger T. 2007. Trichloroethylene Metabolism in the Rat Ovary Reduces Oocyte Fertilizability.  Chemico-Biological Interactions doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2007.06.038. 

  15. Sartini BL and Berger T. 2003. Changes in oocyte plasma membrane binding sites on boar sperm with capacitation and acrosome reactions: a flow cytometric study.  Reproduction 125:865-870.
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