Name | Lab Section | Phone | Office | Office Hours | Suzanne Earle | Wed PM Thur AM |
earle@ualberta.ca | 2-1295 | BioSci Z911 |
appointment |
Glen Elliott | Tue AM Tue PM |
gelliott@ualberta.ca | 2-3080 | EarthSci 1-52F |
appointment |
Jenn Kelly | Tue PM Thur PM |
jkelly@ualberta.ca | 2-1260 | BioSci B205 |
appointment |
Kylee Pawluk | Wed PM Thur PM |
kpawluk@ualberta.ca | 2-3080 | EarthSci 1-52D |
appointment |
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(see also textbook reading assignments and cladogram of animal phyla)
Mon 10 | Introduction: Why study invertebrates? (course preliminaries, outline) |
Wed 12 | Diversity, phylogeny, classification (outline)
(Metazoa cladogram) |
Fri 14 | Key characters defining the Tree of Life (outline) |
Mon 17 | Kingdom Protista
(outline 1, outline 2)
(Protista cladogram, study images, huge collection of web images) |
Wed 19 | Origin of Metazoa; Porifera (I): Introduction (outline) |
Fri 21 | Porifera (II): Function and diversity
(outline)
(Porifera cladogram & study images) |
Mon 24 | Cnidaria (I): Introduction, tissues, cell types (outline) |
Wed 26 | Cnidaria (II): Diversity- Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa
(outline)
(Cnidaria cladogram & study images) |
Fri 28 | Cnidaria (III): Diversity- Anthozoa
(outline); Ctenophora
(outline)
(Ctenophora cladogram & study images) |
Mon 31 | Bilateria: General characteristics
(outline)
(some amusing perspectives on symmetry) |
Wed 2 | Protostomia and Deuterostomia
(outline)
(Metazoa cladogram) |
Fri 4 | Platyhelminthes (I): Introduction, Turbellaria
(outline)
(Platyhelminthes cladogram & study images) |
Mon 7 | Platyhelminthes (II): Parasitic taxa
(outline), Nemertea (outline)
(Platyhelminthes cladogram & study images) |
Wed 9 | Aschelminthes (I): Overview and minor phyla
(outline)
(Aschelminthes cladogram & study images) |
Fri 11 | Aschelminthes (II): Diversity- Nematoda, Rotifera
(outline)
(Aschelminthes study images) |
Mon 14 | Mollusca (I): Introduction & overview
(outline)
(Mollusca cladogram) |
Wed 16 | Mollusca (II): Diversity- Minor classes
(outline)
(mollusc diversity study images) |
Fri 18 | MID-TERM LECTURE EXAM
(view sample questions here) |
21 - 25 | READING WEEK
(Optional field trip to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre) |
Mon 28 | Mollusca (III): Diversity- Gastropoda
(outline)
(Bivalvia study images) (Read Garstang's memorable poem: How the gastropod got it's twist) |
Wed 2 | Mollusca (IV): Diversity- Bivalvia, Scaphopoda
(outline)
(Cephalopoda study images) |
Fri 4 | Mollusca (V): Diversity- Cephalopoda
(outline)
Sipuncula (outline) (Sipuncula cladogram & study image) |
Mon 7 | Metamerism; Annelida (I)- Polychaeta
(outline)
(Annelida cladogram & study images) (Try out the Rhyming key to polychaete families) |
Wed 9 | Annelida (II): Oligochaeta (outline) |
Fri 11 | Annelida (III): Hirudinea (outline) |
Mon 14 | More Worms: Echiura, Pogonophora
(outline)
(Echiura & Pogonophora cladogram & study images) |
Wed 16 | Arthropod (I): Origins, Onychophora, Tardigrada
(outline)
(Onychophora cladogram & study image) |
Fri 18 | Arthropoda (II): Overview, exoskeleton and molting
(outline)
(Arthropoda cladogram) |
Sat 19 | Optional day-trip to the Tyrrell Museum to view the Burgess Shale exhibit
and other fossil invertebrates. |
Mon 21 | Arthropoda (III): Limbs and muscles (outline) |
Wed 23 | Arthropoda (IV): Eyes, respiration and coeloms (outline) |
Fri 25 | (no classes; Good Friday) |
Mon 28 | (no classes; Easter Monday) |
Wed 30 | Arthropoda (V): Diversity, Overview and Crustacea
(outline, outline)
(Crustacea cladogram & study images) |
Fri 1 | Arthropod (VI): Other subphyla
(outline)
(Arthropoda & Pterygota cladograms, other arthropod study images) |
Mon 4 | Deuterostomia; Echinodermata (I): Overview, body plans
(outline)
(Echinoderm cladogram) & study images) |
Wed 6 | Echinodermata (II): Skeleton, water-vascular system
(outline)
(Echinoderm cladogram & study images) |
Fri 8 | Echinodermata (III): Feeding, locomotion, development
(outline)
(Echinoderm cladogram & study images) |
Mon 11 | Lophophorates & Deuterostome relations
(outline)
(Deuterostome cladogram, lophophorate study images) |
Wed 13 | Hemichordata
(outline)
(Deuterostome cladogram, hemichordate study image) Invertebrate chordates (outline) (Chordate cladogram & study image) |
Fri 15 | Retrospective: The Tree of Life (outline) |