In this paper, we show that algebraic extensions of semi-hyponormal operato
rs (defined below) are subscalar. As corollaries we get the following:
(1) Every k-quasihyponormal operator is subscalar.
(2) Every algebraic extension of Aluthge transforms of p-hyponormal operato
rs is subscalar.
From these results and [Es] it is known that such operators with 'rich spec
tra' have nontrivial invariant subspaces.