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Course code: BBS20358f14Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Behaviour Genetics of Animals
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 0
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Wojciech Kruszyński
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 students.
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: student has a knowledge on the genetic basis of behavioural traits in animals; student knows tools to estimate the genetic parameters of behavioural traits and result of their traits selection. Skills: student can analyse the genetic basis of behavioural traits; student can interpret phenotypic, physiological and genetic relations of animal behavioural traits.
Competences: Personal and social competences (attitudes and behaviors): student understands the necessity of knowledge update on different biology branches.
Prerequisites: zoology, animal physiology, animal genetics.
Course content: Characterization of behavioural traits and role of behavioural traits in evolution and domestication processes in animals. Genetic parameters of behavioural traits. Genetic basis of different forms of animal behaviour (especially aggressive behaviour). Natural and artificial selection of behavioural traits. Behavioural traits in breeding work in animals.
Recommended literature: 1. Sadowski B., Chmurzyński J., A.: Biologiczne mechanizmy zachowania. PWN, Warszawa, 2006; 2. Plomin R., DeFries J.,C.,McClearn G.,E.,Rutter M.: Behavioral Genetics. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York 1997 3. Scott G.: Essential Animal Behavior. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 4. Price E. O.: Animal Domestication and Behavior. CABI Publishing, New York, 2002. 5. Kim Yong-Kyu: Handbook of Behavior Genetics. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009
Assessment methods: Final grade on the base of written test.
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