IB 466 - Invertebrate Zoology

Integrative Biology 466 - Invertebrate Zoology

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Tentative Lecture Schedule	Text Chapter
1. Introduction	1
2. Classification, systematics and phylogeny	2, other readings
3. Habitats, feeding modes, protection and convergence	3
4. Development, life histories	4
5. Origins of major groups	4, other readings
6. The protists	5
7. More on protists (combined with Lecture 6)	5
8. Porifera	6
9. Review
10. Lecture Exam 1
11. "Mesozoa" (groups of uncertain relationship)	7
12. Cnidaria	8
13. more Cnidaria, Ctenophora	8, 9
14. Platyhelminthes	10
15. Nemertea	11
16. Blastocoelomates- Rotifera, Gastrotricha, Kinorhyncha	12
17. Blastocoelomates - other groups	12
18. Annelida	13
19. Sipuncula and Echiura	14
20. Emergence of the Arthropoda (related groups)	15
21. Review
22 . Lecture Exam 2
23. Arthropoda: Crustacea	16
24. Arthropoda: Hexapoda (and part II)	17
25. Arthropoda: Myriapoda	18
26. Arthropoda: Cheliceriformes	19
27. Arthropod relationships	15
28. Mollusca 1	20
29. Mollusca 2 Bivalvia	20
30. Mollusca 3 Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda	21
31. Molluscan relationships	22
32. Lophophorates, Chaetognatha	22, other readings
33. Echinodermata 1	23
34. Echinodermata 2	23
35. Echinodermatan relationships	24, other readings
36. Chordata and near	24
37. Fossil invertebrates and their preservation	other readings
38. Presentations of term papers
39. Presentations of term papers
40. Presentations of term papers
41. Review
42. Open

Tentative Laboratory Schedule
1. Phylogenetics, body plans and development
2. Protists
3. Porifera, Mesozoa
4. Cnidaria. Ctenophora
5. Quiz 1; then Platyhelminthes
6. "Blastoceolomates", Rotifera, Gastroctricha, Nematoda, etc.
7. Annelida, Sipunclua, Echiura
8. Quiz 2; then begin Arthropoda, Tardigrada, Onychophora
9. More Arthopoda
10. Mollusca
11. Quiz 3; then Lophophorates
12. Echinodermata
13. Chaetognatha, Hemichordata, non-vertebrate Chordata
14. Quiz 4, field trip