Readings from: Living Invertebrates (1987) Pearse, Pearse, Buchsbaum and Buchsbaum
(for actual dates material was covered, see the lecture outline on the Z250 Home Page)
| Lecture Topic | Reading |
|---|---|
| Introduction, why study invertebrates? | Ch. 1, Ch. 30 |
| Protozoa | Ch. 2* |
| Origin of Metazoa, Introduction to Porifera | Ch. 3 |
| Tissue organization, Introduction to Cnidaria | Ch. 5: 99-117, 128-31 |
| Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa | Ch. 6: 133-42, 146-8, 152-8 |
| Cnidaria, Ctenophora | Ch. 6: 163-75, 7: 187-91, 195 |
| Bilateria; Protostomia & Deuterostomia | Ch. 8:204-5 |
| Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria | Ch. 8: 204-9 |
| Parasitic platyhelminths; Nemertea | Ch. 9: 222-3, 233-48; Ch. 11 |
| Aschelminthes, Nematoda | Ch. 12: 268-78, 287-92, 294-300 |
| Rotifera | Ch. 13: 301-16 |
| Mollusca- General organ systems | Ch. 14, Ch. 15: 382-384 |
| Mollusca - Gastropoda (torsion, crawling) | Ch. 15: 327-46 |
| Mollusca- Bivalvia (mantle, burrowing) | Ch. 15: 347-54 |
| Mollusca- Cephalopoda, minor classes | Ch. 15: 362-75, 381 |
| Sipuncula; Metamerism | Ch. 18: 441-2; Ch. 16:387-389 |
| Introduction to Annelida | Ch. 16: 389-402, 410 |
| Annelida- Polychaetes, Oligochaetes | Ch. 17: 411-23, 428-30 |
| Annelida- Hirudinea; Minor protostomes | Ch. 17: 431-36; Ch. 18: 438-40, 443-6 |
| Arthropod origins: Onychophora | Ch. 19 |
| Arthropoda- Overview | Ch. 20: 455-66 |
| Arthropoda- exoskeleton & limbs | Ch. 20: 455-73 |
| Arthropoda- respiration & coeloms | Ch. 20: 474-76 |
| Arthropoda- Crustacea | Ch. 21: 500-506, 481-86, 492-96 |
| Other Arthropod subphyla | Ch. 22: 529-37, 548-51, 559-63; Ch. 23:565-570 |
| Echinodermata (various topics) | Ch. 27: 683-91, 694-99, 705-711, 717-24 |
| Lophophorates | Ch. 26: 656-58, 662-63, 667-73 |
| Hemichordata | Ch. 28: 731-36 |
| 'Invertebrate' chordates | Ch. 29: 737-743, 747-51 |
| Tree of Life | review Ch. 30 |
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| . | * material as emphasized in lecture |
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