- Docente: Albamaria Parmeggiani
- Credits: 3
- SSD: VET/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Aquaculture and Ichthyopathology (cod. 0403)
Learning outcomes
The growing application of innovating biotechnologies in the field of reproduction in fish underline the extreme importance of the acquisition of specific information about the basic elements of these techniques from the student of the three-years degree course on aquacolture and ichthyopathology
Course contents
This course aims to offer to the student an adequate and updated theoretical-practical preparation about the function of gametes, the fertilisation and the subsequent embryo development and the main biotechnologic techniques applied to the reproduction of ichthyc species: methods of sex inversion using hormones; techniques of manipulation of chromosomes (gynogenesis, androgenesis, induction of triploidy and tetraploidy); methods of transgenesis (microinjection, electroporation, "sperm-mediated gene transfer")
Readings/Bibliography
- Fisiologia animale. R. Hill, G. Wise, M. Anderson. Zanichelli editore, Bologna 2006
- The laboratory fish edited by Gary K. Ostrander. Academic press, San Diego (CA) 2000
- Genetics and Fish Breeding Colin E. Purdon Ed. Chapman
Teaching methods
- Ex-catedra lectures
- Practical lessons in the laboratory or experimental fish farm
Assessment methods
The examination is oral. During the course "in itinere" checks will be made
Teaching tools
- Audio-visual material
- Educational visits
Office hours
See the website of Albamaria Parmeggiani