Publications
Armstead, M. M., Wilson, M., Keller, L., Kinney, J., McGill, K., Snyder, E. 2013. Methods for Evaluating the Effects of a Simulated Mine Effluent with Elevated Ionic Concentration to Field Collected Benthic Macroinvertebrates. In: Environmental Considerations in Energy Production Symposium, Charleston West Virginia. Edited by J. R. Craynon. Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Englewood, CO. 362-370. (Invited).
Vellaisamy V.S., J.J. Tomblin, M.M. Yeager Armstead, E.E. Murray. 2013. Selenium(Sodium selenite) causes cytotoxicity and apoptotic mediated cell death in PLHC-1 fish cell line through DNA and mitochondrial membrane potential damage. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf. 87:80-88.
Vellaisamy V.S., M.M. Yeager Armstead, M.M. Cohenford, E.E. Murray. 2013. Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) induces apoptosis and necrosis mediated cell death through mitochondrial membrane potential damage and elevated production of reactive oxygen species in PLHC-1 fish cell line. Chemosphere 90(3): 1201-9.
Vellaisamy V.S., M.M. Yeager Armstead, E.E. Murray. 2013. Protective and antioxidant role of selenium on arsenic trioxide-induced oxidative stress and genotoxicity in the fish hepatoma cell line PLHC-1. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. Vol. 31(12): 2861-2869.
Wilson, M., Armstead, M. M. 2012. A Reproductive and Trophic Transfer Study Associated With Selenium Concentrations in the Mud River Watershed. International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage. Ottawa, Canada.
Armstead, Mindy M. and J.L. Yeager. 2006. In-situ Toxicity Testing of Unionids. In Freshwater Bivalve Ecotoxicology, J. H. Van Hassel and J. L. Farris, Editors. CRC Press.
Yeager, Mindy M., Richard J. Neves, and Donald S. Cherry. 1999. Competitive interactions between early life stages of Villosa iris (Bivalvia: Unionidae) and adult Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea). Proceedings of the First Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Symposium, Pages 253-259.
Cherry, D.S., L.G. Rutherford, M.G. Dobbs, C.E. Zipper, J.C. Cairns, Jr., and M.M. Yeager. 1995. Acidic pH and Heavy Metal Impacts into Stream Watersheds and River Ecosystems by Abandoned Mined Lands, Powell River, Virginia. 1995 Powell River Project Research and Education Program Report. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Cherry, D.S., J.H. Van Hassel, M.M. Yeager, and J. Cairns, Jr. 1995. Avoidance of twenty-four fish species to thermally influenced, chlorinated water in Making Environment Science: A Festschrift in Honor of John Cairns, Jr. J.R. Pratt, N. Bowers, and J.R. Stauffer, editors. Ecoprint, Portland, Oregon.
Yeager, M.M., D.S. Cherry and R. Neves. 1994. Feeding Behavior and Diet of Juvenile Freshwater Mussels, Villosa iris. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 13: 217-222.
Yeager, M.M., D. Tarter, and T. Jones. 1991. The Reproductive Biology of a Disjunct Population of the Central Mudminnow, Umbra limi (Kirtland), in the Greenbottom Wildlife Management Area, Cabell County, West Virginia. Bulletin of the West Virginia Academy of Sciences.
Yeager, M.M., D. Tarter, T. Jones, and D. Cincotta. 1990. Discovery of the Central Mudminnow, Umbra limi (Kirtland), in the Greenbottom Wildlife Management Area, Cabell County, West Virginia. Proceedings West Virginia. Academic. Science.