BIOL 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mouthbrooder, Semelparity And Iteroparity, Parental Investment
21 Jan 2017
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Paper outline: due february 13, 2017: worth 10% of final grade. Must include the following criteria: title, brief topic description. General issue you are to examine: why is this important. Reason to care for your topic: type of science/ biology that is relevant. Example: genetics will be important because : must included references. List up to 6 additional papers: must be relevant to topic. Max: 5 pages: double spaced with references included in limit. Hardcopy and email to ta on february 13, 2017. Reference style: does not really matter, make sure you are consistent and reference full text. Most of the literature should be primary literature: can be review articles, relevance = as recent as possible. List of topics can be found on onq. Why is it important: type of parental investment. Protection: mouth brooding = lots vs limited. Parental effort: investment of energy in reproduction. Gonadosomatic index (gsi): weight of gonads expressed as % of body weight.
