MB5180:03
Biology of Tropical Crustaceans
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
26 hours lectures, 39 hours practicals. Semester 1.
Available to GDipResMeth, GCertResMeth, GDipSc, MAppSc and MSc students.
Staff: Dr J Collins.
A review of functional morphology in relation to food procurement, ingestion and processing, aspects of sensory physiology and behaviour, microanatomy of neural and feeding structures. A comparative approach uses a wide range of common tropical species, eg prawns, crabs, mantis shrimps and barnacles. Students will be required to attend lectures and practicals in MB3180 .
Learning Objectives:
- thorough knowledge of crustacean anatomy and functional morphology;
- an understanding of some fundamental physiological processes eg digestion, vision;
- practical experience in a number of techniques; microdissection techniques; histology and optical microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, methods of video recording of feeding mechanisms and behavioural sequences and their interpretation.
Assessment by project (30%); laboratory reports (20%); examination (50%).