Zoology 381/581, Animal Anatomy and Development, Fall 1996



Instructors:


 Dr. David Swanson Churchill Haines Room 180
Dr. Ken Renner Churchill Haines Room 188

Text:

 Kardong, K.V. 1995. Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution. W.C. Brown, Dubuque, Iowa.

Laboratory Manuals:

 (1) Laboratory Studies of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Embryos Schoenwolf, 7th Ed. (1995).
(2) Vertebrate Dissection Walker and Homberger, 8th Ed. (1992).

Lecture:
Churchill Haines Room 101; T,R 0930 1045
Laboratory:
Churchill Haines Room 147; W 1400 1700, W 1800 2100, R 1400 1700

TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE



Date Lecture Topic Text Reading
9/5 Primitive Chordates, Vertebrate Phylogeny Chapter 2
9/10 Vertebrate Phylogeny: Fishes and Amphibians Chapter 3
9/12 Vertebrate Phylogeny: Amniotes Chapter 3
9/17 Vertebrate Embryology Chapter 5
9/19 Vertebrate Embryology Chapter 5
9/24 Vertebrate Embryology; Nervous System Ð General Chapter 16
9/26 Nervous System Ð Brain and Cranial Nerves Chapter 16
10/1 EXAM 1
10/3 Nervous System Ð Sense Organs (Audition) Chapter 17
10/8 Nervous System Ð Sense Organs (Vision) Chapter 17
10/10 Nervous System Ð Autonomic Chapter 16
10/15 Skeletal System Ð General Chapters 8 & 9
10/17 Skeletal System Ð Skull Chapter 7
10/22 Skeletal System Ð Postcranial Chapters 8 & 9
10/24 EXAM 2
10/29 Muscular System Chapter 10
10/31 Circulatory System Ð General Chapter 12
11/5 Circulatory System Ð Heart Chapter 12
11/7 Circulatory System Ð Arterial Chapter 12
11/12 Circulatory System Ð Venous Chapter 12
11/14 EXAM 3
11/19 Gametogenesis, Fertilization Chapter 14 & pgs. 153Ð155
11/21 Reproduction and Excretion Chapter 14
11/26 Reproduction and Excretion Chapter 14
11/28 TDANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Ð NO CLASS
12/3 Reproduction and Excretion Chapter 14
12/5 Integument and Derivatives Chapter 6
12/10 Digestive Tract and Derivatives Chapters 11 & 13
12/12 Digestive Tract and Derivatives Chapters 11 & 13
12/16 (Monday) FINAL EXAM 0730Ð0930


The purpose of this course is to achieve an understanding of vertebrate anatomy and development. Lectures will cover both ontogenetic (embryological) and phylogenetic (evolutionary) aspects of vertebrate organ system development. Lecture material will be supplemented in the laboratory by first examining the developmental stages of each organ system, in an ontogenetic sense, as they occur in the frog and chick embryo. Next, the developmental stages of each organ system in an evolutionary sense will be examined by dissecting the dogfish shark (primitive condition) and the cat (advanced condition).

Four lecture exams will be given. The last lecture exam will be given at the regularly scheduled final exam period for this course. The lecture exams will comprise 60% of your final grade. Attendance is required at all scheduled exams.

You are required to take every exam since all will count toward your final grade. There will be no make up exams unless you have a bona fide excused absence. This means that you must contact one of the instructors before the scheduled exam explaining why you cannot take the exam at the regularly scheduled time. All make up exams will be entirely discussion and/or oral exams.

There will be three laboratory exams and they will make up 40% of your final grade. Roll will be taken in the laboratory and on some occasions in the lecture. You will be responsible for all material presented in the lecture and laboratory and past experience has shown a strong correlation between good exam scores and regular class attendance. Those students enrolled for graduate credit will be required to complete a term paper on a topic approved by the instructors.

Laboratory Schedule


Date Topic Lab Manual
9/4Ð9/5 No Labs Scheduled
9/11Ð12 Primitive Chordates (demo.), Frog development, 33 hr chick (whole mount) Walker Ð Ch. 1 & p. 25Ð27
p.5Ð26 (frog), Plates 1Ð6
p. 27Ð30 (chick), Plate 7
9/18Ð19 33 hr chick; early chick development (Know the female reproductive tract, p. 40) p. 34Ð47, Plates 8,9
9/25Ð26 48 hr. chick; 72 hr. chick, Summary of early development. p. 67Ð69, 72Ð78, 82, 90;
Plates 20Ð31
10/2Ð3 Shark Brain and Eye Sheep Brain p. 241Ð244; 220Ð224
p. 260Ð280
10/9Ð10 Cat Eye and Ear Shark Skeleton and Skull p. 224Ð228; 233Ð236
p. 52Ð63, 95Ð99, 111Ð115
10/14 (Mon) 1st Lab Practical. 6:30 pm
10/16Ð17 Cat Skeleton and Skull p. 79Ð94, 102Ð110, 124Ð132
10/23Ð24 Shark Muscles Cat Muscles p. 146Ð156
p. 165Ð173
10/30Ð31 Cat Muscles p. 174Ð199
11/6Ð7 Cat Muscles (Know the shark and cat muscle homologs on p. 139Ð141) p. 199Ð211
11/13Ð14 Shark Digestive, Circulatory, and Respiratory Systems p. 295Ð306, 339Ð357
11/18 (Mon) 2nd Lab Practical (will not cover Shark Circulatory, Digestive, and Respiratory Systems). 6:30 pm.
11/20Ð21 Cat Circulation p. 367Ð381
11/27 Cat Circulation and Digestion (Lab will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 26 & 27, for those with Thursday labs) p. 381Ð392, 314Ð319, 322Ð324
12/4Ð5 Cat Digestive and Urogenital Shark Urogenital p. 325Ð335, 413Ð430
p. 404Ð410
12/9 (Mon) Final Laboratory Practical. 6:30 pm.

The first three weeks of lab (except for part of Week 1), we will be using the embryo lab book by Schoenwolf, the rest of the semester we will be using Walker's "Vertebrate Dissection," so the page numbers provided refer to these two lab books, respectively.

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