Z250: Survey of Invertebrates 1997

Instructor:

A. Richard Palmer Office: Biological Sciences Z1116, Phone 3633
(office hours: Mon 1-2, Tue 1:30-2:30, or by appointment)

Teaching Assistants:

Name	Lab Section	E-mail	Phone	Office	Office Hours
Andrea Durand	Wed PM, Thur AM	adurand@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca	3080	EarthSci 152F	Mon 1-2, Tue 11-1
Peter Langlois	Tue AM/PM	pwl@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca	1261	BioSci Z306	Fri 12-2
Brian Penney	Thur PM	penney@odum.biology.ualberta.ca	1296	BioSci Z923	Mon 12-2, Tue 10:30-12
Graeme Taylor	Wed PM, Thur AM/PM	gmtaylor@odum.biology.ualberta.ca	1178	BioSci Z1107	Wed 9-11
Ron Zurawell	Tue AM/PM	rzurawel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca	4737	BioSci Z907	Mon 1-2, Thur 10-11

Textbooks:

Living Invertebrates, 1987
Pearse, Pearse, Buchsbaum and Buchsbaum; Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston, MA; ISBN 0-86542-312-1 (animal classification according to text; readings from the text; cladogram of animal phyla as followed in Zool 250)
Invertebrate Zoology, A Laboratory Manual, 4th ed., 1989
Wallace, Taylor and Litton; Macmillan Publishing Co., New York; ISBN 0-02-307763-8

REVISED LECTURE SCHEDULE - Winter 1997

(revised to reflect final presentation of material; see also reading assignments and cladogram of animal phyla)

January

Mon 6 - Introduction, why study invertebrates? (outline)
Wed 8 - Diversity, phylogeny, classification (outline)
Fri 10 - Characters defining deep branches in the Tree of Life (outline) (cladogram)

Mon 13 - Kingdom Protista (outline) (cladogram)
Wed 15 - Protista, Multicellularity (outline)
Fri 17 - Origin of Metazoa, Porifera (outline) (cladogram)

Mon 20 - Porifera: colony forms, feeding, reproduction (outline)
Wed 22 - Tissue organization, Cnidaria (outline) (cladogram)
Fri 24 - Cnidaria- Hydrozoa (outline)

Mon 27 - Cnidaria- Scyphozoa, Anthozoa (outline)
Wed 29 - Ctenophora; Bilateria (outline) (cladogram)
Fri 31 - Bilateria (outline) (cladogram)

February

Mon 3 -Proto- & Deuterostomes (outline) (cladogram); Intro. to Platyhelminthes (outline) (cladogram)
Wed 5 - Platyhelminthes, Nemertea (outline) (cladogram)
Fri 7 - Aschelminthes (outline) (cladogram)

Mon 10 - Aschelminthes (outline)
Wed 12 - Mollusca - overview (outline) (cladogram)
Fri 14 - MID-TERM EXAM

17-21 READING WEEK

Mon 24 - Mollusca - Shells, shell growth & mantle cavity (outline)
Wed 26 - Mollusca - ctenidium, radula, coelom, development (outline)
Fri 28 - Mollusca - Gastropoda, torsion, snail crawling (outline)

March

Mon 3 - Mollusca - Bivalvia, shells & mantle cavity, burrowing (outline)
Wed 5 - Mollusca - Cephalopoda, jet propulsion, minor classes (outline)
Fri 7 - Sipuncula; Metamerism; Annelida - Introduction (outline) (cladogram )

Mon 10 - Annelida- Polychaetes, parapodial locomotion, Oligochaetes, peristaltic locomotion (outline) (cladogram)
Wed 12 - Annelida- Hirudinea; Other protostome worms (outline)
Fri 14 - Arthropod origins: Onychophora (outline) (cladogram)

Mon 17 - Arthropoda Overview (outline) (cladogram)
Wed 19 - Arthropoda - Overview (outline)
Fri 21 - Arthropoda - Overview (outline)

Mon 24 - Arthropoda - Overview, Crustacea (outline) (Crustacea cladogram)
Wed 26 - Arthropoda - Chelicerata, Trilobitomorpha, Uniramia (outline) (Arthropod subphyla cladogram) (Pterygota cladogram)
Fri 28 - GOOD Friday - No classes

Mon 31 - EASTER Monday - No classes

April

Wed 2 - Echinodermata - Introduction & overview (outline) (cladogram)
Fri 4 - Echinodermata - Water vascular system & coeloms (outline)

Mon 7 - Echinodermata - Feeding & locomotion (outline)
Wed 9 - Lophophorates (outline)
Fri 11 - Hemichordata, Invertebrate chordates (outline)

Wed 16 - FINAL LECTURE EXAM 0900 (All students in the Clare Drake Arena)

Grading:

Mid-term exam
Lab quizzes
Lab final
Final exam

20%
15%
25%
40%