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Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture

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Peter J. AllenPeter J. Allen
Assistant Professor, Aquatic Sciences

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

address:

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

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Education:

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

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Recent Publications  |   View All Publications

2012
Arnold, M.B., E.L. Torrans, P.J. Allen. 2012. Influences of cyclic, high temperatures on juvenile channel catfish growth and feeding. North American Journal of Aquaculture 75(1):77-84. Download

2011
Allen, P.J, M. McEnroe, T. Forostyan, S. Cole, M.M. Nicholl, B. Hodge, J.J. Cech Jr. 2011. Ontogeny of salinity tolerance and evidence for seawater-entry preparation in juvenile green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 181:1045-1062. Download

2011
Allen, P.J. and J.A. Steeby. 2011. Aquaculture: Challenges and promise. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):12. Download

2011
Allen, P.J., D. Weihrauch, V. Granmaison, P. Dasiewicz, S.J. Peake, W.G. Anderson. 2011. The influence of environmental calcium concentrations on calcium flux, compensatory drinking and epithelial calcium channel expression in a freshwater cartilaginous fish. The Journal of Experimental Biology 214:996-1006. Download

2011
Anderson, W.G., P.J. Allen. 2011. An alternative approach for the measurement of trimethylamine oxide in body fluid samples of elasmobranchs. Journal of Fish Biology 78:667-672. Download