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PHLEGER, CHARLES F.
Ecology - Professor of Biology. Ph.D., Marine Biology, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, UCSD (l972)
phleger@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
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Research Interests: Lipids and trophodynamics of Antarctic marine ecosystems,
buoyancy of marine fishes, aquaculture of scallops and abalone.
Upper Division and Graduate Courses:
Introduction to Oceanography (UD/G), Deep-Sea Oceanography (UD/G)
Graduate students: Ami Groce, Matthew Nelson
Selected Publications:
Phleger, C.F., P.D. Nichols, E. Erb, and R. Williams. l999. Lipids of the Notothenioid
fishes, Trematomus spp. and Pagothenia borchgrevinki from East Antarctica. Polar
Biology (in press).
Phleger, C.F., P.D. Nichols, and P. Virtue. l998. Lipids and trophodynamics of
Antarctic zooplankton. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 120:311-323.
Phleger, C. F. 1998. Buoyancy in marine fishes: Direct and indirect role of lipids.
Am. Zoologist, 38(2):57-66.
Phleger, C. F., P. D. Nichols, and P. Virtue. l997. Lipids and buoyancy in Southern
Ocean pteropods. Lipids, 32(10):1093-1100.
Phleger, C. F., P. D. Nichols, and P. Virtue. l997. The lipid, fatty acid, and
fatty alcohol composition of the myctophid fish, Electrona antarctica: high
levels of wax ester and food chain implications. Antarctic Science, 9(3):258-265.
Phleger, C. F., R. Laub, and S. R. Wambeke. l995. Selective skeletal fatty acid
depletion in spawning Pacific pink salmon Onchorhynchus gorbuscha. Comp. Biochem.
Physiol. 111B:435-439.
Phleger, C. F., and S. R. Wambeke. l994. Bone lipids and fatty acids of Peru fish.
Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 109B:145-152.
Phleger, C. F. l991. Biochemical aspects of buoyancy in fishes. In: Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology of Fishes, Vol. I, Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives,
ed. by P. W. Hochachka and T. P. Mommsen, Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Chap.
9:209-247.
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