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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). 
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:
I revised the Powerpoint on Protista, so if you already downloaded it you may want to get it again- - apologies.  Here are reading assignments for next week. The first is to learn about the diversity of eukaryotes- the big branches of the family tree that includes all protists, plants, fungi and animals.

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.redandblack.com/ugalife/malaria-s-algal-ancestry-may-lead-to-treatment/article_999bd1b0-60fe-11e2-bdb3-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=print

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