- Docente: Marina Orlandi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biological sciences (cod. 0091)
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to provide a wide knowledge of vertebrate physiology
Course contents
Carnivorous animals. Coprophagy. Digestion of waxes, chitin and cellulose. Ruminants.Crop milk and waxes of birds. BSE and prion diseases.
Gas exchange in water and air. Air breathing fishes. Phonation and bird singing. Gas exchange in eggs.
Gustation and olfaction. Vomer nasal organ.
Echolocation in marine mammals and in bats.
Heat perception in rattle snake.
Magnetoreception and orientation in fishes and birds.
Adaptation to extreme temperature: studies on camels, whales, birds and icefishes.
Vertebrate venoms effects.
Readings/Bibliography
Environmemtal Physiology of animals. Willmer et al. Blackwell Science ed.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
oral examination
Teaching tools
At the beginning of each lesson, students will be provided with the iconographic material concerning the dealed topic
Office hours
See the website of Marina Orlandi