- Docente: Barbara Mantovani
- Credits: 8
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biological Sciences (cod. 8012)
Learning outcomes
Basic knowledges on the Animal Kingdom: its biodiversity with special reference to body plan, metabolic functions, reproductive strategies and phylogeny.
Course contents
Animal origin and evolution. Classification, systematics and phylogeny. Animal bauplan and metabolic functions (body symmetry, cellularity, germ layers, body cavities; locomotion and support; feeding mechanisms, excretion and osmoregulation, circulation and gas exchange; nervous systems and sense organs; hormones and pheromones; reproduction). Animal development and life histories.
Some general aspects of heterotrophic Protista.
The Animal Kingdom: Placozoa, Porifera (Exactinellida, Calcarea, Demospongiae), Cnidaria (Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Anthozoa), Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes (Turbellaria, Trematoda, Cestoda), Nemertea, Mollusca (Caudofoveata, Solenogastres, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda); Annellida (Polychaeta, Clitellata); Rotifera, Acanthocephala, Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Kinorhyncha, Priapula, Loricifera, Onycophora, Tardigrada, Arthropoda (Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea, Hexapoda); Lophophorata (Phoronida, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa), Echinodermata (Crinoidea, Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea), Hemichordata, Chordata (Tunicata, Cephalochordata, Vertebrata), Metazoa incertae sedis.
Readings/Bibliography
To be defined with students
Teaching methods
frontal lessons; didactic laboratory observations
Assessment methods
written and oral examinations
Teaching tools
.ppt presentation; laboratory exercise
Office hours
See the website of Barbara Mantovani