Faculty. Consists of members from several departments in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Division of Biological Sciences, and the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Graduate Study. The Graduate Group in Avian Sciences offers the M.S. degree program to students who wish to pursue specialized advanced work on avian species. The areas of specialization that may be chosen by the student at present include: nutrition, physiology, reproduction, pathology, toxicology, food chemistry, management, ecology, genetics, comparative incubation, environmental physiology, and cellular and developmental studies using wild and domestic birds as experimental animals. Both master's degree plans, thesis or comprehensive examination, are available.
Preparation. It is expected that the student will have had undergraduate preparation in a field appropriate to the course of study selected. The student will be expected to have had courses in most of the following subjects: general biology, general and organic chemistry, biochemistry, avian biology, genetics, nutrition, physiology, and statistics.
Graduate Adviser. C.C. Calvert (Animal Sciences).
UC Davis 1997-98 Online General Catalog. Posted August 1, 1997.
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