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C.M.FONDAMENTI DI ZOOLOGIA

Teaching Staff

VERA D'URSO - Module Invertebrates - BIO/05 - 8 CFU
VERA D'URSO - Module Vertebrates - BIO/05 - 6 CFU
VENERA FERRITO - Module Vertebrates

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Learning Objectives

• Invertebrates
  

  Critical ability to recognize of the major invertebrate groups and understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms that have led to the diversification of the main taxa of invertebrates

• Vertebrates
  

  Identification of the major Vertebrate groups and evolutionary mechanisms

Course Structure

• Invertebrates
  

  Frontal lessons, exercises in the classroom and in the field

• Vertebrates
  

  Frontal lessons and exercises in the classroom

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Detailed Course Content

• Invertebrates
  

  Diversity of organisms; adaptations; systematic categories; analogy and homology; characteristics (features), origin and classification of the mains phyla of the Invertebrata: Protozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platelminta, Nemertea, Nematoda, Foronidea, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Mollusca, Annelida, Onycophora, Tardigrada, Arthropoda, Echinodermata.

• Vertebrates
  

  Features, classification and origin of Vertebrates

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Textbook Information

• Invertebrates
  

  1) Dorit R., Walker W.F., Barnes R.D. – Zoologia - Ed. Zanichelli
  2) La Greca M. – Zoologia degli Invertebrati - Ed. UTET seconda edizione
  3) Barnes R.D. –Zoologia degli Invertebrati - Ed. Piccin

• Vertebrates
  

  1- Hickman C.P., Roberts L.S., Keen S.L., Eisenhour D.J., Larson A., l'Anson A. - DIVERSITA' ANIMALE – Ed. Mc Graw-Hill.

  2- Pough H.F., Janis C.M., Heiser J. B.- ZOOLOGIA DEI VERTEBRATI- Ed. Pearson

  3- Miller S.A., Harley J. P. - ZOOLOGIA - Parte sistematica . Ed. Idelson-Gnocchi

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