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Check this page frequently for updates.
We will meet from 7-10pm on Wed evenings in Patterson 617, unless otherwise announced.
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Lectures |
Readings |
Further Notes |
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16 Jan |
1. |
Go to Readings page |
Lecture 1 | none | |
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23 Jan |
2. |
Frog Origins; morphology and general characteristics of Anura |
Go to Readings page |
Short reports Laurin matrix | |
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30 Jan |
3. |
Discoglossoids, Pipoidea and Pelobatoidea; Hypothesis testing in phylogenetics |
Review; see Readings page |
Lecture 3 | None |
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6 Feb |
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6 March |
5. |
Hyloids: Myobatrachidae, Centrolenidae, Pseudidae, Brachycephalidae, Sooglossidae, Rhinodermatidae, Dendrobatidae, Bufonidae |
Go to Readings page |
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20 Mar |
6. |
Lecture 6 | |||
| 27 Mar |
7. |
Frogs: Summary Lab. Decay Index. | Lecture 7 | ||
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3 Apr |
8. |
Classification, morphology and general characteristics of salamanders. Hynobiids and cryptobranchids, Sirenidae |
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10 Apr |
9. |
Ambystomatoids, Rhyacotriton, Proteidae, Dicamptodon, Salamandridae |
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17 Apr |
10. |
Plethodontidae |
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24 Apr |
11. |
Phylogeny of major lineages of salamanders, including the Albanerpetontids; Issues of heterochrony |
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1 May |
12. |
Morphology, general characteristics of caecilians, and phylogeny of caecilians |
Nussbaum; Wilkinson; Hedges |
Last updated 3/28/02 by David Cannatella