Week 1 |
Introduction to lab, and set up for cichlid lab |
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LAB EXERCISE & ASSIGNMENT |
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Maruska and Fernald 2013 "Social Regulation of Male Reproductive Plasticity in an African Cichlid Fish" ICBt. 53: 938-950 |
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FLY LAB HANDOUT for weeks 4 and 6 (LOOK AHEAD for EXTRA READING) |
Week 2 |
Jwatcher cichlid Observation |
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LAB EXERCISE & ASSIGNMENT same as last week |
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Week 3 |
Statistics Exercise |
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Download the HANDOUT and read it before lab.
If this seems trivially easy to you, download the WORKSHEET and answer all of the questions.
If this still seems trivially easy to you, you can skip the first hour and a half of lab and simply hand in the completed worksheet.
If this is not trivially easy and you think that you would benefit from additional explanation, come to lab on time and we will work through the problem set together.
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Work on trouble shooting set up for Drosophila Behavior Lab :: ALL RECORDS SHOULD BE IN THE LAB NOTEBOOK |
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WEBSITES :: Before leaving lab today you should have a partner and a topic selected !!! form |
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Week 4 |
Behavioral Observation Techniques |
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ZOO LAB HANDOUT and Excercise to do BEFORE LAB |
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Martin and Bateson Chapter 6-9 :: THIS CONTAINS OBSERVATION METHODS IN MORE DETAIL
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Hosey, G. R. (1997). "Behavioural research in zoos: Academic perspectives." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 51(3-4): 199-207. |
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Swaisgood, R. R. and D. J. Shepherdson (2005). "Scientific approaches to enrichment and stereotypies in zoo animals: What's been done and where should we go next?" Zoo Biology 24(6): 499-518. |
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Blumstein, D. and E. Fernandez-Juicic (2010). A Primer of Conservation Behavior, Sinaur. Chapter 1.
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Lagen, M., KAs, M.J.H., Staal, W.G., van Engeland, H., Durston, S. (2011) The neurobiology of repeptitive behavior: Of mice ... Neurosci. & Behav. Reviews 35:345-355. |
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Week 5 |
Guppy Male Display and Mate Choice HANDOUT & EXERCISE |
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Dugatkin., L.A. and Godin, J.G.J. (1998) How Females Choose their Mates Scientific American 56-61. |
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Gross, M.R., Suk, Y.Y., Robertson, C.T. 2007 Courtship and genetic quality: asymmetric males show their best side. Poc. Roc. Soc. B |
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Lens, L., Van Dongen, S., Kark, S., and Matthysen, E. (2002) Fluctuating asymmetry as an indicator of fitness: can we bridge the gap between studies? Biol Rev. 77:27-38. |
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Morell, V. (2002) Guppy Sex and Gluttony Guided by Orange Glow. Science 295 :1816b.
& see response letters Jayasooriya (2002) Science 296:847-848.
& see original paper Rodd et al (2002) PRS 69:475-481 |
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Neff, D. Bryan., Pitcher, E. Trevor. (2003) Multiple mating and sequential mate choice in guppies: females trade up. The Royal Society., p1623 |
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Oral presentation of Zoo based Grant Proposals :: Put your .ppt on the COURSES SEVER BEFORE LAB |
Written Zoo based Grant Proposal is due :: TURN THIS IN BY UPLOADING IT TO COURSES SERVER |
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Week 6 |
DreamWeaver - Website Construction :: |
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- Youand your partner should have begun to research the topic..
- You should have a few images of your animal.
- You should have selected some research figures that will be appropriate to include.
- You should know some other websites that present information about this animal.
- You should have several research papers related to your animal behavior.
- You should have 1-2 paragraphs written as well as bullet points describing the animal behavior.
- You should know whether you want to use Tinbergen’s 4 questions, Dewsburry’s 3 areas or some other scheme to comprehensively describe both proximate and ultimate explanations for your animal behavior.
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We will work through the basics of Dreamweaver together
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Week 7 |
Execute Drosophila Behavior Lab |
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FLY LAB HANDOUT (same as at link for weeks 1) |
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Pennisi (2008) Abuzz about behavior. Science 320:1581 |
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Greenspan, R. J. (2004). "E pluribus unum, ex uno plurAlcock_Chapter: Quantitative and single-gene perspectives on the study of behavior." Annual Review of Neuroscience 27: 79-105. |
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Benzer (1973) Genetic Dissection of Behavior Scientific American 229; 24-30. |
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Makay and Anhold (2004) Quantitiative genetic analysis of complex behaviours in Drosophila. NRG 58638-849. |
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Week 9 (after break) |
Independent Project Planning - use Project management template
Work on Website |
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Week 10 |
Work on Independent projects. |
Work on Websites
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WEEK 11 |
Work on Independent projects. |
Evaluations of each other's websites due Tuesday in lecture ony Nov 6th
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WEEK 12 |
Work on Independent projects. |
WEEK 13 |
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Final Website is due at 5:00 PM on Tuesday Nov 20th |
WEEK 14 |
Work on Independent projects. |
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND POSTER PREPARATION see template 1 or template 2
POSTERS SHOULD BE PRINTED BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON !
(due to thesis printing you may need to get them monday) |
WEEK 15 |
(tuesday is a thursday: Wednesday is a Friday)
Abstracts dueMONDAY December 3rd at 5:00 PM on the sever
POSTER SESSION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AT 1:00 STUDENTS MUST ATTEND AT LEAST ON OF THESE |
FINALS WEEK |
NO FINAL |
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