Students undertake projects on the reef. Emphasis on vertebrate taxa. Virus structure, function, and interactions with the host, emphasis on bacterial and animal viruses. Serological skills and techniques employed in modern immunology. A course in laboratory techniques including competitive binding assays, monoclonal and polyclonal antibody production, fluorescent labeling, and western blot analysis.
Laboratory includes experience with cell culture.
The physical and biological mechanisms that structure natural populations, including nutrient cycling, energy flow, succession, species interactions, food webs and broader ecosystem and biogeographic processes. The coevolution and ecology of plants and animals covering pollination ecology, seed dispersal, plant-herbivore interactions, and habitat constraints on the behavioral ecology of animals. A survey course on the invertebrate phyla covering functional morphology, life histories, phylogenetic relationships, symbiosis, ontogeny, and behavior. Laboratories emphasize living animals. One half, one, or two full courses 665.