- Docente: Lorenzo Alibardi
- Credits: 4
- SSD: BIO/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Natural Sciences (cod. 0105)
Learning outcomes
The purpose of this course 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 characteristics of different classes of vertebrates and their phylogenetic relationships. Early embryogenesis of fish, anphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The extraembryonic membranes in amniotes and their role. The integument, the skeleton, the nervous system and sense organs, the respiratory and circulatory system, the excretory and genital system in the different vertebrates
Readings/Bibliography
Liem, Bemis, Walker, Grande Anatomia Comparata dei Vertebrati. EdiSES
Teaching methods
30 h lectures
10 h tutorials
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Overhead projector
Office hours
See the website of Lorenzo Alibardi