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April 29. Hexapod notes are posted. Also
the slides for the rest of the course! Quiz on
Thursday. Butterflies are flying in the Roston
Butterfly House... |
April 18. Crustacea notes are available- sorry so late. I was trying to bring the phylogeny up to speed- but its a mess! |
April 3. Some kind of quiz on Tuesday over Annelida. First set of slides for Arthropods is posted. SPRING at last! |
March 25. Cephalopod slides are up, and the pdf of Annelida (I'm pushing my file space!) Quiz on Mollusca up thru bivalves. |
March 21. Quiz next Tuesday on Mollusca, through
bivalves (today's lecture).
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March 19. Welcome back- I hope you had a good
break.. Another set of Mollusc slides is posted. Two
more to go. It takes me a while to get through this
Phylum! |
March 4. Quiz tomorrow (Rotifers and Nematodes). First set of Mollusk slides are up. see you tomorrow. No class on Thursday. |
February 17: Updated "Rotifera" slides. We'll have a quiz on Platyhelminthes on Tuesday. |
February 6: Updated "Flatworms" slide set. These are big
files, so I have to remove the previous sets as I go, or run
out of server space. So...be sure that you download them. Remember: Quiz on Thursday at 4 over dinoflagellates and "simple metazoa". The reading for discussion is this website: http://carinbondar.com/2010/08/the-secret-lives-of-sponges-revealed-introducing-dr-sally-leys/ |
January 28: I just posted the updated
"Simple Metazoa" slide set. |
January 19:
http://tolweb.org/Eukaryotes/3
Please read at least in part before Tuesday lecture.
Then there are a couple of links to read for Thursday
discussion.
They describe new research on malaria.
Malaria are parasitic eukaryotes which are said to
have killed more human beings than any other disease
throughout prehistory and history.
They are members of the Apicomplexa, which you will
be introduced in lecture and by the Tree of Life (TOLweb)
reading above.
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001137 |
January 17:
Welcome! Check here for announcements regarding readings, field trips, schedule changes, etc. For more information on homology and analogy Please read "similarities and differences" http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/similarity_hs_01 |