MB5180 - Biology of Tropical Crustaceans
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
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Available to GDipResMeth, GCertResMeth, GDipSc, MAppSc and MSc students.
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 Outcomes
- 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;
- thorough knowledge of crustacean anatomy and functional morphology.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | MB3180 |
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| Census Date 31-Mar-2005 | |
| Coord/Lect: | mbjdc. |
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| Assessment: | (50%); (20%); (30%). |
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