- Docente: Maria Gabriella Maurizii
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biological sciences (cod. 0091)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide information and knowledge concerning differentiation, structural organization and evolution of vertebrates skeleton apparatus.
Course contents
Classification of vertebrate skeletal apparatus. Structure and development of vertebrae. Evolution of the axile skeleton. Origin of the skeleton of appendages. Structural organization and evolution of paired fins. The skeleton of appendages of primitive tetrapods.Structure and evolution of girdles. Origin, structure and evolution of the tetrapod limbs. Components of the head skeleton: chondrocranium, visceral skeleton and dermatocranium. Differentiation, structural organization and evolution of the head components.
Readings/Bibliography
Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates
Liem Bemis Walker Grande
Teaching methods
Lectures with the help of trasparencies. Demonstrations of laboratory using macroscopic and microscopic specimens.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Teaching tools
Lectures with the help of transparencies. Demonstrations of laboratory using macroscopic and microscopic specimens.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Maria Gabriella Maurizii