- Docente: Maurizio Lazzari
- Credits: 4
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biological Sciences (cod. 8012)
Learning outcomes
The purpose is to acquaint the students with the evolution of vertebrates by studying the similarities and differences in the structural organization and in the early embyogenesis of the different groups.
Course contents
Classification and natural history of chordates and particularly of vertebrates; general characters of the different classes of vertebrates and their philogenetic relationships. Early embryogenesis of Amphioxus, anphibians, and birds. The extraembryonic membranes.
Readings/Bibliography
KF Liem, WE Bemis, WF Walker e L Grande, Anatomia Comparata dei
Vertebrati. Una visione funzionale ed evolutiva, EdiSES, Napoli,
2002
GC Kent, Anatomia Comparata dei Vertebrati, Seconda Edizione,
Piccin, Padova, 1997
NE Baldaccini, E Capanna, MF Franzoni, G Giudice, V Mazzi, I Nardi,
G Sconzo, AM Simonetta, C Vellano, G Zaniolo e T Zavanella,
Anatomia Comparata, Seconda Edizione, Antonio Delfino Editore,
Roma, 2000
FH Pough, CM Janis e JB Heiser, Zoologia dei Vertebrati, Seconda
Edizione, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, 2001
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G Minelli e P Del Grande, Atlante di Anatomia dei Vertebrati,
Piccin, Padova, 1983
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C Houillon, Embriologia dei Vertebrati, Seconda Edizione, Casa
Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, 1992
R Franquinet e J Foucrier, Atlante di Embriologia Descrittiva,
EdiSES, Napoli, 2004
A LeMoigne e J Foucrier, Biologia dello Sviluppo, EdiSES, Napoli,
2004
L Raunich, G Giudice e H Manelli, Biologia dello Sviluppo, Piccin,
Padova, 1998
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises
Assessment methods
Written and oral assessment
Teaching tools
PC and video projector
Office hours
See the website of Maurizio Lazzari