Bio 205 Comparative Vertebrate Morphology

New Lectures

  1. Lecture 1
  2. Lecture 2 - phylogenetics
  3. Lecture 3 - vertebrate diversity (see the Tree of Life vertebrate pages and UCMP Introduction to the vertebrates)
  4. Lecture 4 - vertebrate origins
  5. Lecture 5 - the Body
  6. Lecture 6 - Devo I
  7. Lecture 7 - Devo II
  8. Lecture 8 - Integument
  9. Lecture 9 - Cranial Skeleton I
  10. Lecture 10 - Cranial Skeleton II - trends
  11. Lecture 11 - Head segmentation
  12. Lecture 12 - axial skeleton
  13. Lecture 13 - appendicular skeleton
  14. Lecture 14 - Muscles I - Muscle organization
  15. Lecture 15 - Muscles II - Integrative functional biology of form-function matching in fish myotomal muscle
  16. Lecture 16 - Swimming and Flying
  17. Lecture 17 - Terrestrial locomotion
  18. Lecture 18 - A very brief tour of the nervous system
  19. Lecture 19 - sensory system. Endocrine system - no notes
  20. Lecture 20 - Feeding - the gut
  21. Lecture 21 - Feeding - feeding
  22. Lecture 22 - respiration
    Lecture 22b - non-respiratory functions of the respiratory system - no lecture but study these notes
  23. Lecture 23 - Circulatory - background
  24. Lecture 24 - Circulatory - Notes on text
  25. Lecture 25 - Urinary
  26. Lecture 26 - Reproduction

Labs

  1. Lab 1
  2. Lab 2
  3. Lab 3 - heterochrony & allometry

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