Fifty years in the past the late Jim Linzell and I have been writing our monograph, Salt Glands in Birds and Reptiles, for the Physiological Society’s Monograph Collection; it was revealed in Might 1975. On this sequence I revisit among the matters and individuals who adopted up the invention of salt glands in birds by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen.
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I used to be unhappy to seek out that Maryanne Robinson Hughes had died in 2020 simply in need of her ninetieth birthday. Maryanne was in proper at first of the invention of salt glands in birds since she was Knut Schmidt-Nielsen’s PhD pupil at Duke College in North Carolina and in 1958 was a co-author of the second full paper, with Knut and Ragnar Fänge, to look on salt glands in birds wherein they established the nervous management of the gland.
An obituary on-line written by certainly one of her three youngsters, along with a web page on ancestry.com offers an overview of her life. Maryanne Elizabeth Robinson was born on 27 December 1930 in Binghampton, New York. She was educated at Binghampton Central Excessive College and Harpur School. A masters and PhD at Duke then adopted. Her PhD was awarded in 1962 however from newspaper articles on her engagement it might appear that whereas writing up she had been employed as a analysis assistant within the physiology division of the College of Washington in Seattle. On 26 August 1961 she married Gilbert C Hughes (1933-2010) in New York; they went to dwell in Kansas the place Gil was an assistant professor. In 1964 the moved throughout the Canadian border, Gil to the Division of Botany of the College of British Columbia in Vancouver the place he labored on marine fungi. I bear in mind Maryanne telling me that with a younger household she first labored part-time within the Division of Zoology the place she stayed till retirement. Maryanne died in a care dwelling in Vancouver on 10 December 2020.
I met Maryanne solely as soon as; at a dinner with Gil, throughout the Physiological Congress on the UBC Campus in Vancouver, the place I chaired a session on salt glands, a memorable event (the dinner not the session) with them each in nice type. Maryanne continued engaged on birds with salt glands for her total profession with a string of postgraduate college students and different collaborators. She was notably involved with the mixing of operate of all of the organs and tissues involved with osmoregulation and water stability, a really tough job given the character of urinary excretion and the admixture of urine and faeces within the hindgut of birds.
I’ve gathered Maryanne’s publications within the following record from my very own information and all the standard sources. Her first paper was revealed when she was 27; her final when she was 76. Nevertheless, as a result of the indexing companies typically miss (even with the advantage of machine-learning) many publications in books and convention proceedings, the record will not be full. A few of Maryanne’s papers in my very own information haven’t been picked up.
Maryanne Robinson Hughes: Publications 1958-2007
Fänge R, Schmidt-Nielsen Ok, Robinson M. 1958. Management of secretion from the avian salt gland. American Journal of Physiology 195, 321-326.
Hughes MR. 1962. Research on renal and extrarenal salt excretion in gulls and terns. PhD thesis, Duke College, North Carolina.
Goldstein DL, Hughes MR, Braun EJ. 1966. Position of the decrease gut within the adaptation of gulls (Larus glaucescens) to sea water. Journal of Experimental Biology 123, 345-357.
Hughes MR. 1968. Renal and extrarenal excretion within the frequent tern Sterna hirundo. Physiological Zoölogy 41, 210-219.
Hughes MR, Ruch FE. 1968. Sodium and potassium within the tears and salt gland secretion of saline acclimatized geese. Proceedings of the Worldwide Union of Physiological Sciences 7, 204 (twenty fourth Worldwide Congress, Washington, D.C.).
Hughes MR. 1969. Ionic and osmotic focus of tears of the gull, Larus glaucescens. Canadian Journal of Zoology 47, 1337-1339.
Hughes MR, Ruch FE. 1969. Sodium and potassium in spontaneously produced salt-gland secretion and tears of geese, Anas platyrhynchos, acclimated to recent and saline waters. Canadian Journal of Zoology 47, 1133-1138.
Hughes MR. 1970. Circulation charge and cation focus in salt gland secretions of the glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucescens. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 32, 807-812.
Hughes MR. 1970. Relative kidney measurement in nonpasserine birds with practical salt glands. Condor 72, 164-168.
Hughes MR. 1970. Some observations on ion and water stability within the puffin, Fratercula arctica. Canadian Journal of Zoology 48, 479-482.
Hughes MR. 1970. Cloacal and salt-gland ion excretion within the seagull, Larus glaucescens, acclimated to growing concentrations of sea water. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 32, 315-25.
Hughes MR. 1972. The impact of salt gland removing on cloacal ion and water excretion within the rising kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla. Canadian Journal of Zoology 50, 603-610.
Hughes MR. 1972. Hypertonic salt gland secretion within the glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucescens, in response to abdomen loading with dilute sodium chloride. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 41. 121-127.
Hughes MR, Blackman JG. 1973. Cation content material of salt gland secretion and tears within the Brolga, Grus rubicundus (Perry) (Aves: Gruidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 21, 515-518.
Hughes MR. 1974. Water content material of the salt glands and different avian tissues. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 47, 1089-1093.
Hughes MR. 1975. Salt gland secretion produced by the gull, Larus glaucescens in response to abdomen a great deal of totally different sodium and potassium focus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 51, 909-913. Ruch FE Jr, Hughes MR. 1975. The consequences of hypertonic sodium chloride injection on physique water distribution in geese (An as platyrhynchos), gulls (Larus glaucesens) and roosters (Gallus domesticus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 52, 21-28.
Hughes MR. 1976. Impact of glucose on salt gland secretion within the glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucescens. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 53, 311-312.
Hughes MR. 1976. The consequences of salt water adaptation on the Australian black swan, Cygnus atratus (Latham). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 55, 271-277.
Hughes MR. 1977. Observations on osmoregulation in glaucous-winged gulls, Larus glaucescens, following removing of the supraorbital salt glands. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 37A, 281-287.
Walter A, Hughes MR. 1978. Complete physique water quantity and turnover charge in recent water and sea water tailored glaucous-winged gulls, Larus glaucescens. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 61A, 233-237.
Hughes MR. 1980. Glomerular filtration charge in saline acclimated geese, gulls and geese. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 65A, 211-213.
Roberts JR, Hughes MR. 1983. Glomerular filtration charge and consuming charge in Japanese Quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica, in response to acclimation to saline water. Canadian Journal of Zoology 61, 2394-2398.
Roberts JR, Hughes MR. 1983. The impact of saline acclimation on water and sodium transport throughout the small gut of ducklings, gulls and quail. American Zoologist 23, 1014.
Roberts JR, Hughes MR. 1984. Exchangeable sodium pool measurement and sodium turnover in freshwater- and saltwater-acclimated geese and gulls. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62, 2142-2145.
Roberts JR, Hughes MR. 1984. Saline acclimation and water and sodium transport throughout avian small gut. American Journal of Physiology 247, R246-249.
Hughes MR. 1987. The consequences of ureteral resistance on gull urine composition and stream charge. Canadian Journal of Zoology 65, 2669-2671.
Hughes MR, Roberts JR, Thomas BR. 1987. Complete physique water and Its turnover in free-living nestling glaucous-winged gulls with a comparability of physique water and water flux in avian species with and with out salt glands. Physiological Zoology 60, 481-491.
Conway GL, Hughes MR, Moldenhauer RR. 1988. Extrarenal salt excretion in clapper and king rails. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 91, 671-674.
Hammons RL, Hughes MR, Moldenhauer RR. 1988. Physique water and water flux in recent water and sea-water acclimated clapper rails, Rallus longirostris. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 91, 539-541.
Hughes MR, Roberts JR, Thomas BR. 1989. Renal operate in freshwater and chronically saline-stressed female and male Pekin geese. Poultry Science 68, 408-416.
Hughes MR. 1989. Extracellular fluid quantity and the initiation of salt gland secretion in geese and gulls. Canadian Journal of Zoology 64, 194-197.
Hughes MR, Chadwick A. (Editors) 1989. Progress in Avian Osmoregulation. Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.
Hughes MR. 1989. Stimulus for avian salt gland secretion. In, Progress in Avian Osmoregulation. Edited by MR Hughes and A Chadwick, pp 143-161. Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.
Hughes MR, Kasserra C, Thomas BR. 1990. Impact of externally utilized bunker gas on physique mass and temperature, plasma focus, and water flux of Glaucous-winged Gulls, Larus glaucescens. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68, 716-721.
Hughes MR, Winkler D. 1990. Osmoregulation in nestling California gulls at Mono Lake, California. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 95, 567-571.
Kasserra CE, Jones DR, Hughes MR. 1991. Acid-base disturbance and ventilatory response to adjustments in plasma osmolality in Pekin geese. Respiration Physiology 85, 383-393.
Hughes MT, Zenteno-Savin T, Kojwang D. 1991. Results of saline acclimation and cecal ligation on physique water and water flux in female and male Pekin geese. Canadian Journal of Zoology 69, 771-775.
Hughes MR, Kojwang D, Zenteno-Savin T. 1992. Results of caecal ligation and saline acclimation on plasma focus and organ mass in female and male Pekin geese, Anas platyrhynchos. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 162, 625-631.
Bennett DC, Bowes VA, Hughes MR, Hart LE. 1992. Suspected sodium toxicity in hand-reared nice blue heron (Ardea herodias) chicks. Avian Illnesses. 36, 743-748.
Kojwang D, Hughes MR. 1993 Excessive dietary sodium chloride and physique temperature within the home fowl and the glaucous-winged gull. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 163, 421-426. Hughes MR, Goldstein DL, Raveendran L. 1993. Osmoregulatory responses of glucous-winged gulls (Larus glaucescens) to dehydration and hemorrhage. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 163, 524-31.
Hughes MR. 1995. Responses of gull kidneys and salt glands to NaCl loading. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacologu 73, 1727-1732.
Bennett DC, Hughes MR, De Sobrino CN, Grey DA. 1997. Interplay of osmotic and volemic parts in initiating salt-gland secretion in Pekin geese. Auk 114, 242-248.
Ching AC, Hughes MR, Poon AM, Pang SF. 1999. Melatonin receptors and melatonin inhibition of duck salt gland secretion. Basic and Comparative Endocrinology 116, 229-240.
Bennett DC, Hughes MR, Elliott JE, Scheuhammer AM, Smits JE. 2000. Impact of cadmium on Pekin duck complete physique water, water flux, renal filtration, and salt gland operate. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Well being A. 59, 43-56.
Hughes MR, Smits JE, Elliott JE, Bennett DC. 2000. Morphological and pathological results of cadmium ingestion on Pekin geese uncovered to saline. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Well being A. 61, 591-608.
Hughes MR, Bennett DC, Grey DA, Sharp PJ, Scheuhammer AM, Elliott JE. 2003. Results of cadmium ingestion on plasma and osmoregulatory hormone concentrations in female and male Pekin geese. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Well being A 66, 565-579.
Hughes MR. 2003.Regulation of salt gland, intestine and kidney interactions. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 136, 507-524.
Bennett DC, Hughes MR. 2003. Comparability of renal and salt gland operate in three species of untamed geese. Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 3273-3284.
Bennett DC, Grey DA, Hughes MR. 2003. Impact of saline consumption on water flux and osmotic homeostasis in Pekin geese (Anas platyrhynchos). Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 173, 27-36.
Bennett DC, Kojwang D, Sullivan TM, Grey DA, Hughes MR. 2003. Impact of saline acclimation on physique water and sodium compartmentalization in Pekin geese (Anas platyrhynchos). Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 173, 21-26.
Hughes MR, Bennett DC. 2004. Impact of saline consumption, intercourse and season on Pekin duck osmoregulatory organ lots and comparability with wild Mallards. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82, 30-40.
Bennett DC, Grey DA, Sharp PJ, Hughes MR. 2005. Redistribution of extracellular water and sodium could contribute to saline tolerance in wild geese. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78, 447-455.
Hughes MR, Bennett DC, Grey DA, Sharp PJ, Poon AM. 2006. Influences of intercourse and saline consumption on diurnal adjustments in plasma melatonin and osmoregulatory hormones of Pekin geese (Anas platyrhynchos). Basic Comparative Endocrinology 149,124-133
Hughes MR, Kitamura N, Bennett DC, Grey DA, Sharp PJ, Poon AM. 2007. Impact of melatonin on salt gland and kidney operate of gulls, Larus glaucescens. Basic and Comparative Endocrinology 151, 300-307.