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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: general histology, consent of instructor. A detailed study of the histological organization of representative marine organisms. Fixation, processing, and study of tissues using light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The relationship between structural changes and physiological changes during life cycle of organism. Histopathology with respect to tissue responses to infection and damage by toxic agents. Four credit hours.
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Prerequisite: 16 hours of biological science or consent of instructor. Practical marine fishery management problems. Trends in human population numbers, aggregations, and life styles with associated environmental impacts and resource allocation implications, which pose complex problems for fishery management scientists and administrators. International and local legal, political, social, and economic factors, as well as biological potential, must be considered in making rational decisions toward achieving optimum yield from marine fishery resources. The history of management scheme successes and failures, sources of information, and the current status of fishing technology, mariculture, management methods, legal problems, and educational needs will be explored. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 16 credit hours of zoology or consent of instructor. Survey of behavior, neuroanatomy, and neurophysiology of marine animals with emphasis on the neural mechanisms underlying the behavior of selected invertebrates, fishes, birds, and mammals. Introduction to the experimental study of the behavior of marine animals in the field and laboratory. When possible, students will carry out independent studies on local species. Neural mechanisms underlying behavior; the anatomy and physiology of the nervous systems of marine invertebrates and vertebrates. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 16 credit hours of biological science or consent of instructor. Survey and discussion of the taxonomy, distribution, trophic relationships, reproductive strategies, and adaptation of tidal marsh animals with emphasis on those occurring in northern Gulf marshes. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ichthyology, fisheries, biology, ecology, or consent of instructor. Reproductive strategies and early developmental processes of marine fishes. Includes discussion of temporal and spatial distribution patterns, population dynamics, and ecological interactions of fish eggs and larvae; role of early stages of fishes in fisheries oceanography, marine ecology, and systematics; methods of sampling and identifying fish eggs and larvae; data quantification and analysis; rearing experiments; techniques for studying larval fish dynamics. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: general botany, plant taxonomy, plant physiology, general ecology, or consent of instructor. Botanical aspects of local marshes. Plant identification, composition, structure, distribution, and development of coastal marshes. Biological and physical interrelationships. Primary productivity and relation of marshes to estuaries and associated fauna. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: general microbiology, consent of instructor. Introduction to marine microorganisms and pertinent literature sources. The role of microorganisms in the ecology of oceans and estuaries is stressed. Use of laboratory sampling equipment, methods of processing samples, and laboratory techniques useful in studying marine microorganisms. Five credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 16 credit hours of biological science including general zoology, general botany, and invertebrate zoology. A consideration of the relationship of marine organisms to their environment. The effects of temperature, salinity, light, nutrient concentration, currents, food, predation, and competition on the abundance and distribution of marine organisms are considered. Five credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 16 credit hours of zoology, including an introductory course in invertebrate zoology. A concentrated study of the important free-living marine and estuarine invertebrates of the Mississippi Sound and adjacent continental shelf of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, with emphasis on the structure, classification, phylogenetic relationships, larval development, and functional processes. Six credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 16 credit hours of zoology including comparative morphology or consent of instructor. A general study of the marine chordata, with emphasis on fish including lower groups, mammals, and birds. Groups of vertebrates occurring in the area associated with marine environments, with taxonomic characteristics used in their classification and identification, and with functional adaptations of the organisms. Greatest emphasis is placed on local fishes. For obvious reasons, no conscious attempt is made to duplicate material which could be offered with ease to the student at his or her home institution. Every effort is made to take advantage of the unique teaching situation that the area provides. Six credit hours.
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