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Phone:  662-325-4768
Email:  pallen@cfr.msstate.edu

address:

Room #261, Thompson Hall
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Box 9690
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9690

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Education:

• University of California, Davis Ph.D., Physiological Ecology
• University of California, Santa Barbara B.A., Biological Sciences

Research Interests:

• Physiological plasticity of fishes to environmental change
• Culture of economically important fish species
• Conservation aquaculture of imperiled or non-game fishes
• Physiological ecology of primitive fishes
• Osmo- and ionoregulation in fishes
• Calcium regulation in fishes

Teaching Areas:

• Physiology of fishes
• Principles of fish culture

Research / Extension Websites:

• Fisheries Ecology and Management

2009
Allen, P.J., C.C. Barth, S.J. Peake, M.V. Abrahams, W.G. Anderson. 2009. Cohesive social behavior shortens the stress response: the effects of conspecifics on the stress response in lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque. Journal of Fish Biology 74:90-104. Download

2009
Allen, P.J., J.A. Hobbs, J.J. Cech Jr., J.P. Van Eenennaam, S.I. Doroshov. 2009. Using trace elements in pectoral fin rays to assess life history movements in sturgeon: estimating age at initial seawater entry in Klamath River green sturgeon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 138:240-250. Download

2009
Allen, P.J., J.C. Cech Jr., D. Kultz. 2009. Mechanisms of seawater acclimation in a primitive, anadromous fish, the green sturgeon. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 179(7):903-920. Download

2009
Allen, P.J., M.A.H. Webb, E. Cureton, R.M. Bruch, C.C. Barth, S.J. Peake, W.G. Anderson. 2009. Calcium regulation in wild populations of a freshwater cartilaginous fish, the lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 154:437-450. Download

2009
Barth, C.C., S.J. Peake, P.J. Allen, W.G. Anderson. 2009. Habitat utilization of juvenile lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, in a large Canadian river. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 25:18-26. Download