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Revision as of 13:29, 8 May 2008
EEB 2214 (Biology of the Vertebrates) is being offered in the Summer Session I 2008 (June 2 through July 11). The class meets 5:30-8:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays (tentatively). The course covers the evolution, biology, natural history, behavior and diversity of the vertebrates.For more information, contact the instructor Dr. Chuck Smith at:
Chuck Smith (smithcf@hotmail.com) Assistant Professor-In-Residence Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology U-3043, Torrey Life Science Building The University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268 486-4158
Here's a tentative lecture schedule. We'll be meeting for three hours Tuesdays and Thursdays, so each meeting will be divided into 60-75 minutes lectures with a break in between.
Class Schedule:
lecture | topic | |
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1 | Diversity, classification, and origin of vertebrates | |
1 | Vertebrate body plans and organ systems I | |
2 | Vertebrate organ systems II | |
2 | Evolution of early vertebrates | |
3 | Evolution of jaws and Chondrichthyes | |
3 | Evolution of primitive bony fishes | |
4 | Respiration, locomotion and schooling in fish | |
4 | Feeding adaptations of fishes | |
5 | Reproductive behavior of fishes | |
5 | Origin of tetrapods | |
6 | Diversity, morphology and feeding of living amphibians | |
6 | Amphibian reproductive behavior | |
7 | EXAM 1 | |
7 | Tuataras, lizards and snakes | |
8 | Reptile reproductive behavior | |
8 | Physiological adaptations of ectotherms | |
9 | Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic diapsids | |
9 | Evolution and structure of birds | |
10 | Bird mating systems | |
10 | Evolution of mammals | |
11 | Mammalian feeding adaptations | |
11 | Physiological adaptations of endothermic vertebrates | |
12 | Mammalian mating systems | |
12 | EXAM 2 |