Kathryn A. Dickson
Professor
Degrees
PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
BA, Connecticut College
Research Areas
Locomotion and endothermy in fishes, comparative physiology and biochemistry
Courses Regularly Taught
Principles of Physiology and Ecology, Mammalian Physiology, Comparative Animal Physiology
Publications
Dickson, K. A., Donley, Jeanine M., Hansen, Michael W., and Peters, Jennifer Hoskinson. 2012. Maximum sustainable speed, energetics, and swimming kinematics of a tropical carangid fish, the green jack (Caranx caballus). Journal of Fish Biology 80:2494-2516
Dickson, K. A. 2011. Physiology of Tuna, Chapter 97 In: Farrell A.P. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment, volume 3, pp. 1903-1913. San Diego: Academic Press.
Runcie, Rosa M., Heidi Dewar, Donald Hawn, Lawrence R. Frank, and Kathryn A. Dickson. 2009. Evidence for cranial endothermy in the opah (Lampris guttatus). Journal of Experimental Biology 212:461-470.
Sepulveda, C. S., K. A. Dickson, D. Bernal, and J. B. Graham. 2008. Elevated red myotomal muscle temperatures in the most basal tuna species, Allothunnus fallai. J. Fish Biology 73:241–249.
Sepulveda, C. S., K. A. Dickson, L. Frank, and J. B. Graham. 2007. Cranial endothermy and a putative brain heater in the most basal tuna species, Allothunnus fallai. J. Fish Biology 70:1720–1733.
