Department of Animal & Range Sciences

P.O. Box 172900
Bozeman, MT 59717-2900
Email: animalrange@montana.edu

Tel: (406) 994-3722
Fax: (406) 994-5589
Location: 103 Animal Bioscience Building

Department Head:

Dr. Glenn Duff

Dr. Berardinelli

Professor, Animal Science
307 Animal Bioscience Building; MSU-Bozeman
Bozeman, MT 59717
Phone: (406) 994-5574
Fax: (406) 994-5589
Email: jgb@montana.edu

Education

BA University of Connecticut, Biology1973
MS West Virginia University, Reproductive Physiology 1976
PhD West Virginia University, Reproductive Physiology 1979

Classes

ANSC 321 Physiology of Reproduction

ANSC 421 Assisted Reproductive Techniques
ANSC 523 Advanced Physiology of Reproduction

Research Interests

• Beef Cattle, Sheep, and Wild Ungulates
• Biostimulatory Effects of Male Ruminants
• Pheromones

Recent Publications

• Tauck, S. A., J. R. Olsen, J. R. C. Wilkinson, K. Davis, R. Wedlake, and J. G. Berardinelli. 2010. Characteristics of temporal patterns of cortisol and luteinizing hormone in primiparous, postpartum, suckled, beef cows exposed acutely to bulls. Reprod. Biol. and Endocrinol. 8:89.
• Tauck, S. A., J.R. Olsen, J.R.C. Wilkinson, and J.G. Berardinelli. 2009. Duration of daily bull exposure on resumption of ovulatory activity in postpartum, primiparous, suckled, beef cows. Anim. Repro. Sci.  118:13-18

• Bailey, J.D., J.G. Berardinelli, T.E. Rocke, and R.A. Bessen.  2008.  Prominent pancreatic endcrinopathy and altered control of food intake disrupt energy homeostasis in prion diseases.  J. Endocrinology 197:251-263. 

• Dafoe, J.M., R.W. Kott, B.F. Sowell, J.G. Berardinelli, K.C. Davis, and P.G. Hatfield.  2008. Effects of supplemental safflower and vitamin E during late gestation on lamb growth, serum metabolites, and thermogenesis. J. Anim. Sci. 86:3194-3202.

• White, P.J., R. Garrott, J. Borkowski, J.G. Berardinelli, L. Mertens, and A.C. Pils. 2008. Diet and nutrition of central Yellowstone elk during winter. In The Ecology of Large Mammals in Central Yellowstone: Sixteen Years of Integrated Field Studies. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• White, P.J., R. Garrott, J. Borkowski, K. Hamlin, and J.G. Berardinelli. 2008. Elk nutrition after wolf recolonization of central Yellowstone. In The Ecology of Large Mammals in Central Yellowstone: Sixteen Years of Integrated Field Studies. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Berardinelli, J.G., and S.A. Tauck, 2007. Intensity of the biostimulatory effect of bulls on resumption of ovulatory activity in primiparous, suckled, beef cows. Anim. Reprod. Sci. 99:24:33.
• Berardinelli, J.G., and S.A. Tauck, 2007. Conception rates to artificial insemination in primarous, suckled cows exposed to the biostimulatory effect of bulls before and during a gonadotropin-releasing hormone-based estrus synchronization protocol. J. Anim. Sci. 85:848-852.
• Tauck, S.A., J.G. Berardinelli, 2007. Putative urinary pheromone of bulls involved with breeding performance or primiparous beef cows in a progestin-based estrous synchronization protocol. J. Anim. Sci. 85:1669-1674.
Tauck, S.A., J.R. Olsen, and J.G. Berardinellis, 2007. Adrenal involvement in the biostimulatory effect of bulls. Reprod. Biol. and Endocrinol. 5:33-39.
• Tauck, S.A., J.R.C. Wilkinson, J.R. Olsen, J.N. Janitell, and J.G. Berardinelli, 2007. Comparison of controlled internal drug release device and melengesterol acetate as progestin sources in an estrous synchronization protocol for beef heifers. Theriogenology 68:162-167.
• Tauck, S.A., J.G. Berardinelli, T.W. Geary, and N.J. Johnson. 2006. Resumption of postpartum luteal function of primiparous, suckled beef cows exposed continuously to bull urine. J. Anim. Sci. 84:2708-2713.
• Berardinelli, J.G. and P.S. Joshi. 2005. Resumption of postpartum ovarian cycling activity in primiparous restricted suckled beef cows exposed to a bull or excretory products of bulls or cows. J. Anim. Sci. 83: 2495-2500.
• Berardinelli, J.G., and P.S. Joshi. 2005. Introduction of bulls at different days postpartum on resumption of ovarian cycling activity in first-calf beef cows. J. Anim. Sci. 83: 2106-2110.
• Berardinelli, J.G., P.S. Joshi, and S.A. Tauck. 2005. Postpartum resumption of ovarian cycling activity in first-calf suckled beef cows exposed to familiar or unfamiliar bulls. Anim. Reprod. Sci. 90: 201-209.
• White, D., Jr., J. G. Berardinelli, and K.E. Aune. 2005. Age variation in gross and histological characteristics of the testis and epididymus in male grizzly bears. Urus 16(2): 190-197.
• White, D., Jr., J.G. Berardinelli, and K.E. Aune. 2005. Seasonal changes in spermatogenesis and serum testosterone concentrations in the male grizzly bear. Ursus 16(2):198-207.
• Stellflug, J.N., and J.G. Berardinelli. 2002. Ram mating behavior is influenced by long-term selection for number of lambs born. J. Anim. Sci. 80:2588-2593.
• Berardinelli, J.G., J. Weng, P.J. Burfening, and R. Adair. 2001. Effect of excess degradable intake protein on early embryonic development, ovarian steroids, and blood urea nitrogen on Days 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the estrous cycle in mature ewes. J. Anim. Sci. 79: 193-199.
• Lewis, A. W., and J.G. Berardinelli. 2001. Gross anatomical and histomorphometric characteristics of the oviduct and uterus during the pubertal transition in the sheep. J. Anim. Sci. 79:167-175.
• Berardinelli, J.G., J. Weng, P. J. Burfening, and R. Adair. 2000. Effect of excess degradable intake protein on early embryonic development, ovarian steroids, and blood urea nitrogen on Days 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the estrous cycle in mature ewes. J. Anim. Sci. 78: 193-199.
• Ford, J.J., J.G. Berardinelli, R.K. Christenson, L.L. Anderson. 2000. Luteinizing hormone secretion as affected by hypophyseal stalk transection and estradiol-17β in ovariectomized gilts. Anim. Reprod. Sci. 63:255-274.
• Lewis, A.W., and J.G. Berardinelli. 2000. Gross anatomical and histomorphometric characteristics of the oviduct and uterus during the pubertal transition in the sheep. J. Anim. Sci. 78: 167-175.