Instructors:

• A. Richard Palmer Office: Biological Sciences Z1116, Phone 3633
  (office hours: by appointment)
• Ron Koss (technician); Office: Biological Sciences Z215, Phone 1270

Teaching Assistants:

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, 5th ed., 1997
  Wallace, Taylor and Litton; Macmillan Publishing Co., New York; ISBN 0-13-270026-3

January

Mon 12 - Key characters defining the Tree of Life(outline)
Wed 14 - Kingdom Protista (Protista cladogram) (outline)
Fri 16 - Protista (cont.) (outline)

Mon 19 - Origin of Metazoa, Introduction to Porifera (Porifera cladogram) (outline)
Wed 21 - Porifera (cont.) (outline)
Fri 23 - Tissue organization; Features of Cnidaria (outline)

Mon 26 - Cnidarian diversity- Hydrozoa (Cnidaria cladogram) (outline)
Wed 28 - Cnidarian diversity- Scyphozoa & Anthozoa (outline)
Fri 30 - Ctenophora (outline); Bilateria (outline, Metazoa cladogram)

February

Mon 2 - Protostomia & Deuterostomia (outline) (Metazoa cladogram)
Wed 4 - Introduction to Platyhelminthes,Turbellaria (outline) (Platyhelminthes cladogram)
Fri 6 - Parasitic platyhelminths; Nemertea (outline)

Mon 9 - Intro. to Aschelminthes; Nematoda (outline) (Aschelminthes cladogram)
Wed 11 - Aschelminthes: Rotifera (outline); Mollusca: Overview (shell & mantle) (outline)
Fri 13- MID-TERM EXAM

17-21 READING WEEK

Mon 23 - Mollusca: Overview (cont.; mantle cavity, ctenidium, radula, coelom, development) (outline)
Wed 25 - Mollusca: Minor Classes (outline) (Mollusca cladogram)
Fri 27 - Mollusca: Gastropoda (outline)

March

Mon 2 - Mollusca: Cephalopoda (outline)
Wed 4 - Mollusca: Bivalvia (intro.) (outline)
Fri 6 - Mollusca: Bivalvia (cont.), Scaphopoda (outline)

Mon 9 - Phylum Sipuncula (outline); Metamerism, Introduction to Annelida (outline) (Annelida cladogram)
Wed 11 - Annelida: Polychaetes (outline), Oligochaetes (outline)
Fri 13 - Annelida: Hirudinea; Echiura & Pogonophora (outline)

Mon 16 - Arthropod origins: Onychophora; Arthropoda Overview: exoskeleton (outline) (Arthropoda cladogram)
Wed 18 - Arthropoda: limbs & muscles (outline)
Fri 20 Arthropoda: eyes, respiration, coeloms (outline)

Mon 23 - Arthropoda: Crustacean diversity (outline)
Wed 25 - Arthropoda: Crustacean diversity (cont) & filter feeding (outline)
Fri 27 - Other Arthropod subphyla (Chelicerata, Trilobitomorpha, Uniramia) (outline) (Arthropoda cladogram) (Pterygota cladogram)

Mon 30 - Echinodermata: Symmetry, skeletal system (outline) (Echinoderm cladogram)

April

Wed 1 - Echinodermata: Water vascular system, larval development & coelom origin (outline)
Fri 3 - Echinodermata: Body plans, feeding & locomotion (outline)

Mon 6 - Lophophorates (Deuterostome cladogram)
Wed 8 - Hemichordata, Invertebrate chordates (outline) (Chordate cladogram); Retrospective: The Tree of Life (outline)
Fri 10 - Good Friday - No classes

Thur 16 - FINAL LECTURE EXAM 0900 (ALL students in gymnasium)

Wed 29 - DEFERRED EXAMINATIONS 0900 (BioSciences CW306)

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Grading:

Mid-term exam Lab quizzes Lab final Annotated Bibliography Final exam

20% 15% 20% 10% 35%

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Links:

Invertebrate Biology Courses/Textbooks with WWW content:

• UBC Comparative Invertebrate Zoology (BIOL 205; Tom Carefoot; very well implemented study materials for the lab)
• SFU Invertebrate Biology (BIOL 306; Peter Fankboner)
• UC Santa Cruz, Invertebrate Zoology (Bio 136; Baldo Marinovic)
• St. Anselm College Invertebrate Biology (Bi 38; Craig Hieber; a very nice site with well organized and extensive links to information on invertebrate taxa; see the Laboratory Syllabus link)
• Invertebrates' Resources from General Biology Texts (study materials from the publishers)
• T.H. Huxley's 'The Crayfish' on-line (a WONDERFUL, turn-of-the-century essay on Zoology for the layman; complete with hot-links to a glossary and copies of the original woodcut figures)

General:

• Biodidac (digital resources for teaching invertebrate biology; many images, diagrams, etc.)
• Tree of Life (WWW explorable phylogeny of all living things)
• Bamfield Marine Station (for more Marine Biology & Invertebrates courses available through the University of Alberta)
• The World Lecture Hall (courses with WWW content)
• Invertebrates, Marine Biology & Morphometrics (by A. R. Palmer)
• Biology & Natural History (an extensive list by Mrinal Das)
• Department of Biological Sciences
• University of Alberta Museum of Zoology

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