BIOEE 4761 - [Ichthyology: Biology of Fishes, Laboratory]

Fall (offered in even-numbered years only). Next Offered: 2020-2021. 1 credit. Letter grades only (S/U grades with permission of instructor).

Prerequisite or corequisite: BIOEE 4760. Lab fee: TBA. 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.

W. Bemis.

Laboratory course covering topics presented in BIOEE 4760.

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 fishes in any basic research or applied context.

Outcome 3: Students will understand the evolutionary history of fishes and phylogenetic interpretation based on morphological and molecular study.

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.