brusca and brusca invertebrates pdf free download

I field-tested these exercises in my invertebrate zoology course over the past five years, and I just completed a comprehensive review of this material. I'm sorry, but in my opinion that's just too much. Students today sometimes have to spend over $90 for a new copy of a laboratory manual in invertebrate zoology.

I produced these exercises because the prices of textbooks and laboratory manuals have become extremely expensive over the past 20+ years. The manual includes introductions to microscopy and phylogenetic analysis, and hands-on 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. 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. 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 laboratory manual supports a one-semester course in invertebrate zoology.

Brusca and brusca invertebrates pdf free download