Ichthyology: A Laboratory Manual

This laboratory manual supports a one-semester introductory course in ichthyology. It includes exercises in which students use dichotomous keys, carry out basic phylogenetic analysis, and learn comparative anatomy of jawless, cartilaginous, and bony fishes. This laboratory manual grew out of a set of exercises I developed over my years of teaching ichthyology. I developed them originally because there was no laboratory manual available that provided my students with the kinds of hands-on laboratory experiences I want them to have. I also wrote it because I empathize with the plight of university science students who are constantly faced with what I consider to be exorbitant textbook prices. This is my attempt to provide them a useful, affordable laboratory manual on the biology of fishes. The exercises in this manual can help students hone their skills as scientific observers and thinkers. These exercises can help them come to view fishes in new and interesting ways. After all, it's not what we know about animals but how we think about them that truly matters.Addendum: I noticed a glaring typo on p. 23 in Table 3.2. The cell in the character matrix for the Character "Jaw" and the Taxon "Petromyzontidae" (lamprey) should contain a "0" instead of "2.1" Sorry about that! -- ARH

Author: Alan R. Holyoak
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 11/13/2013
Pages: 62
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.16d
ISBN: 9781493749683

About the Author
Alan Holyoak is a marine biologist and university professor. He earned BS and MS degrees in Zoology with an emphasis in aquatic biology from BYU-Provo. He then earned a PhD in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has taught full-time at the university level for over 20 years. Alan is currently a member of the Biology Faculty at BYU-Idaho where he teaches ichthyology, marine biology, invertebrate zoology, limnology, and a course on climate change. During his career he has also taught or carried out research at The Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories of the University of Washington, The University of Hawaii, The Long Marine Laboratory of UC Santa Cruz, Hopkins Marine Biological Station of Stanford University, and The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Oregon. Alan and his wife Kathrine have four children.


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