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Announcement: A 2nd edition of this lab manual is now available. The title has been changed to Laboratory Exercises in Invertebrate Zoology. It is a much expanded and improved version including 86 additional pages of material, 71 new figures and 46 links to supplemental video material about the biology or ecology of invertebrate animals. The 1st edition will continue to be available to those who prefer to keep using it. This laboratory manual supports a onesemester course in invertebrate zoology. Exercises in this manual focus on an approach where you observe specimens, draw them, write down your own observations about them, and then pose questions based on what you observed. This pattern of observing and asking is the same approach zoologists often take when they develop new lines research about what animals do and how their bodies work. The manual includes introductions to microscopy and phylogenetic analysis, and handson exercises focusing on representatives from the following animal taxa: Symplasma syncytial sponges; Cellularia cellular sponges; Cnidaria Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubozoa, and Anthozoa; Platyhelminthes Turbellaria, Neodermata (Monogenea, Digenea, and Cestoda); Mollusca Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda, and Bivalvia; Annelida Sipuncula, Errantia, Sedentaria; Brachiopoda (articulate and inarticulate); Nematoda; Panarthropoda Lobopodia, Tardigrada, Arthropoda (Trilobilomorpha, Chelicerata, Arachnida, Crustacea, Myriapoda, Hexapoda); Echinodermata Asteroidea, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea, echinoderm development; Hemichordata Enteropneusta; and Chordata Tunicata, Cephalochordata. I produced these exercises because the prices of textbooks and laboratory manuals have become extremely expensive over the past 20+ years. Students today sometimes have to spend over $90 for a new copy of a laboratory manual in invertebrate zoology. Im sorry, but in my opinion thats just too much. I fieldtested these exercises in my invertebrate zoology course over the past five years, and I just completed a comprehensive review of this material. I hope this lab manual will now help provide at least a little financial relief when its time for todays invertebrate zoology students to buy books.
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Announcement: A 2nd edition of this lab manual is now available. The title has been changed to Laboratory Exercises in Invertebrate Zoology. It is a much expanded and improved version including 86 additional pages of material, 71 new figures and 46 links to supplemental video material about the biology or ecology of invertebrate animals. The 1st edition will continue to be available to those who prefer to keep using it. This laboratory manual supports a onesemester course in invertebrate zoology. Exercises in this manual focus on an approach where you observe specimens, draw them, write down your own observations about them, and then pose questions based on what you observed. This pattern of observing and asking is the same approach zoologists often take when they develop new lines research about what animals do and how their bodies work. The manual includes introductions to microscopy and phylogenetic analysis, and handson exercises focusing on representatives from the following animal taxa: Symplasma syncytial sponges; Cellularia cellular sponges; Cnidaria Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubozoa, and Anthozoa; Platyhelminthes Turbellaria, Neodermata (Monogenea, Digenea, and Cestoda); Mollusca Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda, and Bivalvia; Annelida Sipuncula, Errantia, Sedentaria; Brachiopoda (articulate and inarticulate); Nematoda; Panarthropoda Lobopodia, Tardigrada, Arthropoda (Trilobilomorpha, Chelicerata, Arachnida, Crustacea, Myriapoda, Hexapoda); Echinodermata Asteroidea, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea, echinoderm development; Hemichordata Enteropneusta; and Chordata Tunicata, Cephalochordata. I produced these exercises because the prices of textbooks and laboratory manuals have become extremely expensive over the past 20+ years. Students today sometimes have to spend over $90 for a new copy of a laboratory manual in invertebrate zoology. Im sorry, but in my opinion thats just too much. I fieldtested these exercises in my invertebrate zoology course over the past five years, and I just completed a comprehensive review of this material. I hope this lab manual will now help provide at least a little financial relief when its time for todays invertebrate zoology students to buy books.
