Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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BIOEE 4760 - [Biology of Fishes]


Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only. (S-U grades by permission of instructor)

Recommended prerequisite: BIOEE 2740  or BIOSM 2740  or equivalent experience in vertebrate zoology. Small lab fee may be required. Next offered 2014-2015. (Offered alternate years) Enrollment limited to: 24 students. Two field trips, including one full-day weekend trip required. Live animals are studied in the field and are sometimes used in the laboratory for nondestructive demonstrations or experiments. The systematics and dissection laboratories use preserved specimens.

A. McCune.

Introduction to the study of fishes: their structure, physiology and functional morphology, behavior, ecology, diversity, evolution, classification, and identification. Emphasizes marine fishes from different habitats (temperate, tropical coral reef, intertidal, and deep sea); local freshwater species; and interesting freshwater fishes from around the world, especially South America and Africa.

Outcome 1: Students will understand the organismal biology of fishes, including their structure, physiology, functional morphology, and behavior.

Outcome 2: Students will be able to use their knowledge of the fundamental biology of fishes in any basic research or applied context.

Outcome 3: Students will understand the phylogeny of fishes and how it is reconstructed.

Outcome 4: Students will be able to interpret phylogenies and use tree thinking in the service of any kind of biological research field.

Outcome 5: Students will become familiar with the taxonomy and phenotypic diversity of the world’s fishes as well as human-induced challenges to that diversity.

Outcome 6: Through study of the local fish fauna, students will be able to apply the tools of fish identification to learn a new fauna in any region of the world.

Outcome 7: Students will give class presentations about human-induced challenges to the persistence of fish diversity.



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