Reproductive Strategies of Marine Animals

Undergraduate

explores the principles and tactics of reproduction in an evolutionary ecology context, with an emphasis on adaptations to the marine environment. It focuses on the behavioural, ecological and life-history means by which marine animals maximize their lifetime reproductive success. The course covers such topics as sex determination, hermaphroditism, sex ratio, reproductive allocation, mating systems, sexual selection, sexual dimorphism, and parental investment. Various reproductive strategies are exemplified in the major groups of marine animals.