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Peter J. Allen.................................................................................
Phone: 662-325-4768
Email: pallen@cfr.msstate.eduaddress:
Room #261, Thompson Hall
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Box 9690
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9690.................................................................................
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:
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. Download2009
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. Download2009
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. Download2009
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. Download2009
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