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2.00 Credits
Readings, discussions and laboratory exercises concerning the biology of mutualistic root-inhabiting fungi and their plant hosts. Topics will vary by semester. Course may be repeated for credit.
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5.00 Credits
Principles of and practical experience in quantitative sampling of community structure, plant and animal populations, and animal activities. Emphasis on individual projects. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory/field, 10 hours on alternate Saturdays, plus research projects.
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3.00 Credits
Stable isotope analysis applied to ecological questions such as nutrient cycling, photosynthesis and trophic level studies.
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3.00 Credits
Molecular markers and analyses, and their applications to different problems in biology. Appropriate sampling, methods for assessing genetic diversity and differentiation. Approaches to studying gene flow, tools for behavioral ecology, remote sampling, tracking individuals, and paternity analysis, hybridization and speciation, DNA bar codes, and gene expression from a population biological perspective.
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory techniques, molecular tools, applications, and analysis methods commonly used by researchers in the areas of molecular ecology and population genetics.
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3.00 Credits
Concepts and models of energy and nutrient flow, food webs, successional processes, human influences and effects of spatial heterogeneity.
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3.00 Credits
The complexity of bioinformatics computations. Introduction to Perl and Bioperl. Pattern matching and sequence homology. Genome assembly. Transcription factor binding site recognition and motif finding, gene prediction, phylogeny, micro array analysis, RNA folding, gene design and synthesis.
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3.00 Credits
Databases and tools of bioinformatics as relevant to research in genomics and molecular biology. Bioinformatics applications. Information retrieval, analytical tools, BLAST searches, promoter analysis, protein structure- function analysis and various applications.
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4.00 Credits
Techniques in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) including tissue preparation, use of the electron microscope, photography, and interpretation of micrographys. Lecture, 1 hour; laboratory, 6 hours.
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2.00 Credits
Individual research projects in transmission electron microscopy, 6 hours.
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