This will be our first invertebrate lab. We will be studying the control of the neurogenic heart of crustaceans using the lobster as a model.
Work quickly! You will have 30 min (and very lucky if you have an hour) once you open the carapace. Keep your animal chilled (they are Maine lobsters!) and irrigated with cold Lobster ringers at all times.
Please check out the powerpoint notes and the review paper on the crustacean cardiac ganglion by our very own Dr. Ian Cooke who was an emeritus faculty from the Zoology Department and PBRC, a pioneer in invertebrate neurophysiology!
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The assignment for this week is a full group lab report. Please take what you have learned from the individual worksheet assignments and apply this to these reports. We will go over what our expectations will be for these reports in lab.