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72825 - Ethnography and Principles of Genetics of Fish Populations

Academic Year 2017/2018

                
                        Docente:
                        Oliviero Mordenti
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        AGR/17
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Cesena
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Aquaculture and Fish Production Hygiene (cod. 8834)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

Students have to learn the general knowledge in fish identification. A particular attention will be paid to the most important marine and freshwater species ot the Italian Mediterranean Sea.

Course contents

ETHNOGRAPHY: Main issues for the species identification: body shape, type of scales, location of eyes and mouth, fin type and location etc. Morphometrics of the main families. Description of the main features for the Cyclostomes identification. Description of the main features for the fish identification without ventral fin. Description of the main features for the fish identification of species with ventral fin in jugular, thoracic and abdominal position. Description of the main techniques for the Squalomorphes, Squatinomorphes, Galeomorphes, Batoidea and Chimaeriformes identification. ELEMENTS OF GENETICS: Nucleic acids and proteins. Genes, alleles and chromosomes. Mendelian genetics and its exceptions. Basic techniques of molecular genetics. Polymorphisms and methods of detection.

Readings/Bibliography

I pesci dei mari d'Italia: http://www.webalice.it/colapisci/PescItalia/PaginePrincipali/Indice.htm

FISHBASE: http://www.fishbase.org/search.php

FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO THE SHARKS AND RAYS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA (FAO): http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/y5945e/y5945e00.htm

Marine Species Identification Portal: http://species-identification.org/

Checklist della flora e della fauna dei mari italiani (vol. III) (G. Relini) Ministero dell'ambiente

Teaching methods

Oral presentation concerning the identification of the most important marine and freshwater fish species of the Italian Mediterranean Sea

Assessment methods

Oral examination (4 or 5 questions). Students have to take 35-to-40-min.

Teaching tools

Video projector, PC, laboratories and visits to fish market

Office hours

See the website of Oliviero Mordenti