Dr Chris McKnight

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

jcm20@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Eva-Maria Bønnelycke

Selected publications

• Open access

  A remotely operated blood sampling and sedative administration device in large, freely moving pinnipeds

  Kershaw, J., Bønnelycke, E.-M. S., De Ruiter, W., Aitken, A., Balfour, S., Milne, R., Hall, A. J., Armstrong, H. C., Downie, C., Moss, S. E. W. & McKnight, J. C., 7 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Early View, p. 1-13 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Investigating bottlenose dolphin physiology using near-infrared spectroscopy

  Antoniak, G., Ruesch, A., Shinn-Cunningham, B. G., McKnight, J. C., Fahlman, A., Kainerstorfer, J. M., West, N., González, A., Tyack, P., Popa, B.-I. & Shorter, K. A., 23 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 229, 8, jeb251264.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Cognitive perception of circulating oxygen in seals is the reason they don’t drown

  McKnight, J. C., Bønnelycke, E.-M., Balfour, S., Milne, R., Moss, S. E. W., Armstrong, H. C., Downie, C., Hall, A. J. & Kershaw, J. L., 21 Mar 2025, In: Science. 387, 6740, p. 1276-1280 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Diving behaviour and physiology of the Korean Haenyeo

  McKnight, J. C., Solms, B., Jensen, M., Turnbull, J., Balfour, S., Laagland, M., Bronkhorst, M., Lee, H. J., Kang, G., Lee, J. Y., Bell, A., Hastie, G. & Ilardo, M., 18 Aug 2025, In: Current Biology. 35, 16, p. R797-R798

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Cerebral hemodynamic and systemic physiological changes in trained freedivers completing sled-assisted dives to two different depths

  Bønnelycke, E.-M. S., Giacon, T. A., Bosco, G., Kainerstorfer, J. M., Paganini, M., Ruesch, A., Wu, J. & McKnight, J. C., 1 Dec 2024, In: American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 327, 6, p. R553-R567 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Quantifying and reducing the cost of tagging: combining computational fluid dynamics and diving experiments to reduce impact from animal-borne tags

  McKnight, C., Pass, C., Thompson, D., Balfour, S. T., Brasseur, S., Embling, C., Hastie, G. D., Milne, R., Kyte, A., Moss, S., Pemberton, R. & Russell, D. J., 6 Nov 2024, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291, 2034, 12 p., 20241441.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Selected and shared hematological responses to apnea in elite human free-divers and northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris)

  Brown, C. V., McKnight, J. C., Bain, A. R., Tremblay, J. C., Patrician, A., McDonald, B. I., Williams, C. I., Hindle, A. G., Pallin, L. J., Costa, D. P., Dujic, Z., MacLeod, D. B., Williams, T. M., Ponganis, P. J. & Ainslie, P. N., Jul 2024, In: American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 327, 1, p. R46 - R53 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Diving physiology in dolphins and humans

  McKnight, C., Patrician, A., Dujic, Z., Hooker, S. K. & Fahlman, A., 22 Nov 2023, The physiology of dolphins. Fahlman, A. & Hooker, S. K. (eds.). London: Academic Press/Elsevier , p. 135-149 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  Evaluating feasibility of functional near-infrared spectroscopy in dolphins

  Ruesch, A., Acharya, D., Bulger, E., Cao, J., Christopher McKnight, J., Manley, M., Fahlman, A., Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. & Kainerstorfer, J. M., 13 Jul 2023, In: Journal of Biomedical Optics. 28, 7, 18 p., 075001.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Investigating clove oil and its derivatives as anaesthetic agents for decapod crustaceans to improve welfare commercially and at slaughter

  Spoors, F., James, M. A., Mendo, T., McKnight, J. C., Bønnelycke, E.-M. S. & Khan, N., 25 Apr 2023, In: Frontiers in Animal Science. 4, 17 p., 1180977.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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