Michael Babak

Evidence of vascular endothelial dysfunction in Wooden Breast disorder in chickens: Insights through gene expression analysis, ultra-structural evaluation and supervised machine learning methods; PLOS ONE; (2021).

Blood Gas Disturbances and Disproportionate Body Weight Distribution in Broilers With Wooden Breast; Frontiers in Physiology; (2020).

Increased Expression of Lipid Metabolism Genes in Early Stages of Wooden Breast Links Myopathy of Broilers to Metabolic Syndrome in Humans; Genes; (2019).

Dysregulation of lipid metabolism and appearance of slow myofiber-specific isoforms accompany the development of Wooden Breast myopathy in modern broiler chickens; Scientific Reports; (2019).

Sizes, condition factors and sex ratios of the scattered populations of the small cichlid fish, Alcolapia grahami, that inhabits the lagoons and sites of Lake Magadi (Kenya), one of the most extreme aquatic habitat on Earth; Environmental Biology of Fishes; (2019).

RNA-Seq Analysis Reveals Spatial and Sex Differences in Pectoralis Major Muscle of Broiler Chickens Contributing to Difference in Susceptibility to Wooden Breast Disease; Frontiers in Physiology; (2019).

Fasting in the ureotelic Lake Magadi tilapia, Alcolapia grahami, does not reduce its high metabolic demand, increasing its vulnerability to siltation events; Conservation Physiology; (2019).

Gene expression profiling of the early pathogenesis of wooden breast disease in commercial broiler chickens using RNA-sequencing; PLOS ONE; (2018).

Metabolism and antioxidant defense in the larval chironomidTanytarsus minutipalpus: adjustments to diel variations in the extreme conditions of Lake Magadi; Biology Open; (2017).

049 Wooden breast disease in commercial broiler chickens: A histologic and RNA sequencing study; Journal of Animal Science; (2017).

Evidence and role of phlebitis and lipid infiltration in the onset and pathogenesis of Wooden Breast Disease in modern broiler chickens; Avian Pathology; (2017).

0883 A histologic and ultrastructural study of Wooden Breast Disease in modern broiler chickens; Journal of Animal Science; (2016).

Mammalian metabolic rates in the hottest fish on earth; Scientific Reports; (2016).

Air breathing in Magadi tilapia Alcolapia grahami , under normoxic and hyperoxic conditions, and the association with sunlight and reactive oxygen species; Journal of Fish Biology; (2014).

Rh proteins and NH4+-activated Na+-ATPase in the Magadi tilapia (Alcolapia grahami), a 100% ureotelic teleost fish; Journal of Experimental Biology; (2013).

Morphological evaluation of spermatogenesis in Lake Magadi tilapia (Alcolapia grahami): A fish living on the edge; Tissue and Cell; (2013).

Transepithelial potential in the Magadi tilapia, a fish living in extreme alkalinity; Journal of Comparative Physiology B; (2012).