Staff Member
Crystal Ruble
Master's
Email: cruble@mix.wvu.edu
Biography
Crystal works at Conservation Fisheries, Inc., in Knoxville, TN, as Hatchery Manager and Senior Field Biologist. She is a graduate of UTK with a BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a second major in Psychology. Her MS degree program focuses on a comparative study of the early life histories of three darters of the Etheostoma maculatum species complex. She is also studying the early life history of the diamond darter. . Captive breeding and rearing of fishes
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Ruble, C.L., P.L. Rakes, J.R. Shute, and S.A. Welsh. 2016. Captive propagation, reproductive biology, and early life history of Etheostoma wapiti (Boulder Darter), E. vulneratum (Wounded Darter), and E. maculatum (Spotted Darter). Southeastern Naturalist 15:115-126. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.015.0109 | October 2016 |
| Ruble, C.L., P.L. Rakes, J.R. Shute, and S.A. Welsh. 2014. Captive propagation, reproductive biology, and early life history of the Diamond Darter (Crystallaria cincotta). American Midland Naturalist 172:107–118. https://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-172.1.107 | January 2014 |