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Bemidji, MN 56601-2699

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Donald G Cloutman

Professor

Biology

Office: AQ LAB

Phone: (218) 755-2877

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Faculty member in the Biology Department since 1998.
Aquatic Biology

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Courses Regularly Taught

  • Limnology
  • Ichthyology
  • Fisheries Management
  • Reading in Aquatic Biology
  • Parasitology
  • Advanced Projects

Education

  • Fort Hayes State University, B.S. Zoology
  • University of Arkansas, M.S. Zoology
  • Mississippi State University, Ph.D. Fisheries

Research

Dr. Donald Cloutman is a fisheries biologist with a particular interest in sport & subsistence fisheries management (especially in large rivers and glacial lakes), fish diseases & parasites, and the use of aquatic biota (particularly fish and diatoms) as water quality indicators. Current Projects: Development of standard mortality cap equations for walleye, sauger, northern pike, yellow perch, bluegill, and channel catfish. Description of four new species of gill flukes (Dactylogyrus) from minnows of the Great Plains. Abundance of flukes (Digenea) in crayfish related to water quality of lakes and stream in northern Minnesota. Prevalence of Heterosporis (Microsporidia) related to sex, age, and condition of yellow perch in Leech Lake. Effect of rusty crayfish predation on walleye eggs in Leech Lake.

Recent publications include:

Cloutman, D. G. 2006 (In press). Dactylogyrus larrymilleri n. sp. (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from the greenhead shiner Notropis chlorocephalus (Cope) and yellowfin shiner Notropis lutipinnis (Jordan and Brayton) (Pisces: Cyprinidae) from North Carolina and South Carolina. Comparative Parasitology, Vol 73.

Cloutman, D. G., and W. A. Rogers. 2005. Determination of the Dactylogyrus banghami complex (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from North American Gulf of Mexico coastal drainages with descriptions of three new species. Comparative Parasitology 72:10-16.

Cloutman, D. G., and D. C. Jackson. 2003. A comparison of randomized intervention analysis and two-factor analysis of variance for analysis of angler effort in a floodplain river fishery. Fisheries Management and Ecology 10:173-177.