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BENSON, ANDREW

Professor of Biology, Emeritus

Degrees:

  • B.S., University of California, Berkeley
  • M.S., University of California, Berkeley
  • Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

  • Calcium regulation in spawning Pacific salmon
  • Agricultural applications of methanol effects on plant growth
  • Arsenic metabolism in marine organisms



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Home Department:
MBRD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0202

Email: abenson@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/abenson

Publications:

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1989. A 'Nova' in phosphate metabolism, GPG, and discovery of phosphatidylglycerol: Commentary by Andrew A. Benson and Bunji Maruo. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1000:447-458.

1989. Arsonium compounds in algae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 86:6131-6132.

1990. Arsenic depuration via the Tridacna gill membrane. Zeitschrift fŸr Naturforschung 45(C):793-796.

1991. Identification of diacylglycero-4'-0-(N,N,N-trimethyl) homoserine in mushrooms. Lipids 26:254-256.

1992. The path of carbon in photosynthesis XXIV. Improved crop yields in methanol. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 89:9794-9798.

1993. Expression of CGRP mRNAs in the pink salmon, Oncorhyncus gorbuscha. Peptides 14:977-981.

1994. The calcitonin gene is expressed in salmon gills. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesof the United States of America 91:4912-4914.

1996. Leaf methanol - the simplest natural product from plants. Trends in Plant Science 1:296-301.


Last Modified: Nov 24, 2008