9781494436704-1494436701-Invertebrate Zoology: A Laboratory Manual

Invertebrate Zoology: A Laboratory Manual

ISBN-13: 9781494436704
ISBN-10: 1494436701
Edition: First Edition
Author: Alan R. Holyoak
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback 130 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781494436704
ISBN-10: 1494436701
Edition: First Edition
Author: Alan R. Holyoak
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback 130 pages

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Invertebrate Zoology: A Laboratory Manual (ISBN-13: 9781494436704 and ISBN-10: 1494436701), written by authors Alan R. Holyoak, was published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Zoology (Biological Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Invertebrate Zoology: A Laboratory Manual (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Zoology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Announcement: A 2nd edition of this lab manual is now available. The title has been changed to "Laboratory Exercises in Invertebrate Zoology." It is a much expanded and improved version including 86 additional pages of material, 71 new figures and 46 links to supplemental video material about the biology or ecology of invertebrate animals. The 1st edition will continue to be available to those who prefer to keep using it. This laboratory manual supports a one-semester course in invertebrate zoology. 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 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. 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. I produced these exercises because the prices of textbooks and laboratory manuals have become extremely expensive over the past 20+ years. Students today sometimes have to spend over $90 for a new copy of a laboratory manual in invertebrate zoology. I’m sorry, but in my opinion that’s just too much. 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 hope this lab manual will now help provide at least a little financial relief when it’s time for today’s invertebrate zoology students to buy books.

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