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Course code: BBS20271f11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: BEHAVIOUR GENETICS IN ANIMALS
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 0
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr Irena Zwolińska-Bartczak
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: after completing the course student learns about genetic background of behavioural traits and how to use them in breeding work.
Competences: passing the course permits conducting genetic analysis of behavioural traits in animals.
Prerequisites: zoology, animal physiology, animal genetics.
Course content: characteristics of behavioural traits, role of behavioural traits in evolution and domestication processes, genetic parameters of behavioural traits, genetic base of aggressive behaviour, natural and artificial selection of behavioural traits, behavioural traits in breeding work.
Recommended literature: Sadowski B., Chmurzyński J., A.: Biologiczne mechanizmy zachowania. PWN, Warszawa, 2006 Plomin R., DeFries J.,C.,McClearn G.,E.,Rutter M.: Behavioral Genetics. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York 1997 Scott G.: Essential Animal Behavior. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Price E. O.: Animal Domestication and Behavior. CABI Publishing, New York, 2002. Kim Yong-Kyu: Handbook of Behavior Genetics. Sringer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009
Assessment methods: completion of test ; minimum 65% of knowledge to pass.
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