What creature is this with protective covers over its eyes? (see more stunning photos by A. Anker)
|
|
Name | Lab Section | Phone | Office | Office Hours | Marjan Barazandeh | Tue AM / Tue PM |
barazand@ualberta.ca | 2-3633 | BioSci Z1116 |
appointment |
Tetsuto Miyashita | Thur AM / Thur PM |
tetsuto@ualberta.ca | 2-5751 | BioSci Z1021A |
appointment |
Jeffrey Newton | Tue PM / Wed PM |
jsnewton@ualberta.ca | 2-0463 | EarthSci 1-44 |
appointment |
Nicole Webster | Wed PM | nwebster@ualberta.ca | 2-5751 | BioSci Z1021A |
appointment |
---|
(see also textbook reading assignments and cladogram of animal phyla)
Mon 9 | Introduction: Why study invertebrates? (course preliminaries, outline) |
Wed 11 | Diversity, phylogeny, classification (outline)
(Metazoa cladogram) |
Fri 13 | Key characters defining the Tree of Life (outline) |
Mon 16 | Kingdom Protista
(outline 1, outline 2)
(Protista cladogram, study images, huge collection of images, great collection of video clips) |
Wed 18 | Origin of Metazoa; Porifera (I): Introduction (outline) |
Fri 20 | Porifera (II): Function and diversity
(outline); Placozoa
(outline)
(Porifera cladogram & study images) |
Mon 23 | Cnidaria (I): Introduction, tissues, cell types (outline) |
Wed 25 | Cnidaria (II): Diversity- Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa
(outline)
(Cnidaria cladogram & study images) |
Fri 27 | Cnidaria (III): Diversity- Anthozoa
(outline); Ctenophora
(outline)
(Ctenophora cladogram & study images) |
Mon 30 | Bilateria: General characteristics
(outline)
(some amusing perspectives on symmetry) |
Wed 1 | Protostomia and Deuterostomia
(outline)
(Metazoa cladogram) |
Fri 3 | Platyhelminthes (I): Introduction, Turbellaria
(outline + links)
(Platyhelminthes cladogram & study images) |
Mon 6 | Platyhelminthes (II): Parasitic taxa
(outline), Nemertea (outline)
(Platyhelminthes cladogram & study images) |
Wed 8 | Aschelminthes (I): Overview and minor phyla
(outline)
(Aschelminthes cladogram & study images) |
Fri 10 | Aschelminthes (II): Diversity- Nematoda, Rotifera
(outline)
(Aschelminthes study images) |
Mon 13 | Mollusca (I): Introduction & overview
(outline)
(Mollusca cladogram) |
Wed 15 | Mollusca (II): Diversity- Minor classes
(outline)
(mollusc diversity study images) |
Fri 17 | Mollusca (III): Diversity- Gastropoda
(outline)
(Gastropoda study images) (Read Garstang's memorable poem: How the gastropod got it's twist) |
20 - 24 | READING WEEK |
Mon 27 | Mollusca (IV): Diversity- Bivalvia, Scaphopoda
(outline)
(Bivalvia study images) |
Wed 29 | MID-TERM LECTURE EXAM
(view sample questions here) |
Fri 2 | Mollusca (V): Diversity- Cephalopoda
(outline)
(Cephalopoda study images) Sipuncula (outline) (Sipuncula cladogram & study image) |
Mon 5 | Metamerism; Annelida (I)- Polychaeta
(outline)
(Annelida cladogram & study images) (Try out the Rhyming key to polychaete families) |
Wed 7 | Annelida (II): Oligochaeta (outline) |
Fri 9 | Annelida (III): Hirudinea (outline) |
Mon 12 | More Worms: Echiura, Pogonophora
(outline)
(Echiura & Pogonophora cladogram & study images) |
Wed 14 | Arthropod (I): Origins, Onychophora, Tardigrada
(outline)
(Onychophora cladogram & study image) |
Fri 16 | Arthropoda (II): Overview, exoskeleton and molting
(outline)
(Arthropoda cladogram) |
Mon 19 | Arthropoda (III): Limbs and muscles (outline) |
Wed 21 | Arthropoda (IV): Eyes, respiration and coeloms (outline) |
Fri 23 | Arthropoda (V): Diversity, Introduction and Crustacea
(outline, outline)
(Crustacea cladogram & study images) |
Mon 26 | Arthropod (VI): Other subphyla
(outline)
(Arthropoda & Pterygota cladograms, other arthropod study images) |
Wed 28 | Arthropod (VI): Other subphyla (cont.)
(outline)
(Arthropoda & Pterygota cladograms, other arthropod study images) |
Fri 30 | Deuterostomia; Echinodermata (I): Overview, body plans
(outline)
(Echinoderm cladogram & study images) |
Mon 2 | Echinodermata (II): Skeleton, water-vascular system
(outline)
(Echinoderm cladogram & study images) |
Wed 4 | Echinodermata (III): Feeding, locomotion, development
(outline)
(Echinoderm cladogram & study images) |
Fri 6 | No Class (Good Friday) |
Mon 9 | No Class (Easter Monday) |
Wed 11 | Lophophorates, Hemichordates
(outline)
(Deuterostome cladogram, lophophorate & hemichordate study images) |
Fri 13 | Invertebrate chordates (outline), (Chordate cladogram &
study image)
Retrospective: The Tree of Life (outline) |
Thur 19 | FINAL LECTURE EXAM |
(0900, Education Gym, Rows 1, 3, 5, 7) | |
DEFERRED EXAMINATION | |
(0900, BioSciences Z211) |
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 by A. Richard Palmer. All rights reserved.
(revised Apr. 20, 2012)