SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY COURSE MATERIALS

Part 1 materials

Some history of taxonomy and systematics

What all life does

Developmental modes

The diversity of animals

A example problem for taxonomy

Review Guide 1 (pdf)

Review Guide 1 (word document)

Exam 1 Key

Naming nodes on a tree

Taxa

Porifera

Porifera material

Webtree resources

Tree of LIfe

UCMP

Phylogenetics and systematics

Lecture topics

Taxonomy and Linnaeus

Darwin and trees

Systematics and Taxonomy

Phylogenetics, Ernst Mayr

Numerical Taxonomy and Phenetics, Robert Sokal

Monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly

Solutions and problems for naming clades