11. Zoology

11.1. Compulsory Modules

• 300025 PP Project course: Histological methods
• 300096 PP Arthropoda - morphology and evolution
• 300143 VO Animal development and systematics
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryotechniques for Immuno-Electron Microscopy and Tissue in-situ Hybridization - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling & tissue in-situ hybridization (TISH) tech. within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling or TISH
• 300218 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300230 PP Observation of zoo-kept animals - Course
• 300365 PP Survey of bird communities in city parks
• 300449 PP Ecology and behavior of insects in Costa Rica - Habitat and resource use of insect pollinators (like butterflies and ornid bees) in tropical ecosystems
• 300472 VO Ecology and Behaviour of animals
• 300488 PP Ethology and biodiversity of neotropic amphibians - Ethoecology and biodiversity of neotropical amphibians. PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology and systematics of neoptropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)
• 300674 PP Ultrastructural Research
• 300702 VO Animal Cells and Tissues
• 300703 PP Animal Acoustic Signals - Animal Acoustic Signals

11.2. Block of Elective Modules: Zoology

• 300005 VO Social Systems - Social Systems in vertebrates with special emphasis on mechanismus - behaviour - brain-personality-stress, etc.
• 300037 UE Microscopic anatomy of vertebrates
• 300098 VO Introduction to Molecular Biological Techniques - Molecular Techniques
• 300124 VO The birds of Austria - an ecological and conservationbiological overview
• 300142 VO Fundamental principles phylogenetic Systematics
• 300156 VO Biology and Ecology of alpine animals
• 300158 SE New concepts in light- and electron microscopy - New concepts in light- and electron microscopy (scientific results, instruments, methods)
• 300159 VO Evolutionary biology of birds
• 300168 VO Introduction to Biomimetics
• 300170 SE [ en ] Biological Oceanography
• 300177 SE Fishes: Functional and comparative anatomy
• 300179 VO Introduction into the fauna and ecology of the Amazon basin
• 300180 SE [ en ] Biology and systematics of neotropical amphibians
• 300183 VO Human "Evo-Devo": The evolution of human development
• 300188 VO [ de en ] Theoretical Morphology
• 300189 SE Seminar on theoretical morphology
• 300193 SE+UE Preparation and evaluation of multifactorial experiments in Ecology
• 300206 VO+UE Practical Course: Vertebrates - Morphologisches Spezialpraktikum: Vertebrata
• 300208 SE New topics in biometrics
• 300210 UE+EX Vertebrate ecology - Projectcourse national parks in Galapagos and Andean habitats
• 300216 VO Identification course for aquatic invertebrates - Course
• 300219 SE Multivariate statistics in aquatic ecology
• 300222 VO Comparative embryology of animals
• 300236 VO Reproductive Strategies in Vertebrates
• 300249 VO Australian Fauna - examples of evolution, ecology and biogeography
• 300259 VO+UE Selected GIS-problems and solutions for biologists - Course
• 300280 SE [ en ] Recent literature in Marine Ecology and Oceanography
• 300296 PR Entomological Laboratory - Entomological and taxonomic studies on selected insects
• 300323 VO Introduction into evolutionary biology - current topics in vertebrate systematics
• 300357 VO Introduction in Experimental Anatomy in Vertebrates - Introduction in Experimental Anatomy in Vertebrates
• 300396 VO Vertebrates - Morphology, Phylogeny, Biology
• 300445 UE Analysis of ecological data
• 300448 UE Morphology and preparation techniques of birds (Nonpasseres and Passeres)
• 300452 VO [ en ] Biology of Cognition - From Neurons to Culture
• 300462 SE Phylogeny actually - Actual problems and results in Phylogeny
• 300489 VO Growth and Proportion - Basics of biosystemstheory II
• 300505 UE Species determination and biology of nativ fishes
• 300511 VO [ en ] Concepts in Evolutionary Biology
• 300515 VO Speciation and coevolution - Concepts und case studies
• 300529 VO+SE Biology of social Insects - (Introduction to Ecology, Evolution and Behavior of Social Insects, with Emphasis on Hymenopterans)
• 300530 UE [ en ] Imaging and visualization in developmental biology - Principles and applications, including 3 D Methods
• 300544 UE Museological technics - Introduction to the preparation of insects.
• 300548 SE Ants and their interactions
• 300558 VO Animal Communication
• 300564 SE [ en ] Seminar Series on Behavioral Ecology - This seminar series provides an opportunity to attend a talk by a different scientist each week, to participate in discussions, and to meet the speaker in person
• 300618 VO Flying animals - Morphology and Evolution
• 300635 VO Ornitology III - brading biology
• 300638 SE [ en ] Phylogeny of basal hexapods
• 300657 UE Exercise to the lecture Identification course for aquatic invertebrates - Course
• 300721 VO [ en ] Molecular principles of developmental biology of animals