EEB 451 Biology of Mammals - Winter 2016 Instructor - Professor Priscilla Tucker 3036 Museums Building [email protected]
GSI – Lisa Walsh 3091 Museums Building [email protected]
Tentative Lecture Syllabus 4151 USB Tuesday/Thursday 1:00-2:30
Jan. 7 Introduction to course
12 Introduction to mammals, origins, phylogeny - Chapters 1 and 2 in Vaughan et al. 2015 14 Introduction to mammals, origins, characteristics - Chapter 3
19 physiology, body size (activity: body size and the cost of being small) - Chapter 21 21 Monotremata and Metatheria – Chapters 5 and 6
26 Metatheria cont., marsupial reproduction – Chapters 6 and 20 28 Soricomorpha, Erinaceomorpha - Chapter 14
Feb. 2 Guest Lecturer 4 Afrotheria- Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Tubulidentata, Paenungulata - Chapters 8 and 9
9 Xenarthra - Pilosa, Cingulata - Chapter 10 11 Chiroptera - Chapter 15
16 Chiroptera; echolocation and other sensory systems - Chapter 22 18 Mammalian Reproduction – Chapter 28
23 Cetartiodactyla, Perissodactyla - Chapters 17 and 18 25 Cetartiodactyla continued - Chapter 20
Midterm Break
Mar. 8 Carnivora I - Chapter 16 10 Carnivora II - Chapter 16
15 Carnivora III, Pholidota – Chapters 16 and 10, page 150 17 Dermoptera, Scandentia, Primates I - Chapters 11 and 12
22 Primates II - Chapter 12 24 Rodentia I- Chapter 13
29 Rodentia II - Chapter 13 31 Rodentia III and Lagomorpha - Chapter 13
Apr. 5 Conservation Concerns/Zoonoses- Chapter 26 and 28 7 Guest Lecture – Prof. Geoff Gerstner
12 Term Project Presentations 14 Term Project Presentations
Grades: Lab quizzes (10) 300 mid-term exam 100 final exam 100 term project 100 total 600
Course Goals You will have the opportunity to see and learn about a large number of groups of mammals, including around 100 families, and you will also be learning to recognize around 65 species of mammals that are found in Michigan. You will learn about them in both lecture and lab, and our goal is to coordinate the two parts of the course as closely as we can. We will hold no exams during the lecture period. Instead, we will give a series of quizzes in lab sections (one each week) that will cover both lecture and lab material. You will be asked to identify specimens and answer short questions covering lecture materials. Each week’s quiz will focus on the groups from the previous week, but there will always be at least one question on earlier material (and sometimes more than one). That is, the quizzes are cumulative. The midterm and final exams will be in exactly the same format as the lab quizzes, but they will include more questions. Due to the logistics of lab exams, they will take place in lab sections. [If this causes a problem for you, talk to us and we’ll work out an alternate plan.] Note that the aggregate score of the quizzes makes up half of your grade for the course. Keeping up is important! Another significant component of your grade will be a term project. This includes articulation of a specimen, a presentation to the class and a short paper on aspects of the species on which you are working. Term Project Due Date – Friday, April 1. Details about the term project will be provided at a later date.
Text:
Vaughan, T. A., et al. 2015. Mammalogy. Sixth Edition. Jones and Bartlett Publishing.
A book by Feldhamer, G. et al. (2007, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press) is also good. It is available on reserve from the Science Library.
Another excellent resource is the Animal Diversity Web (http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu). This website contains an extensive section on mammals. Accounts of species often include pictures of living animals, and in a few, but growing number of cases, recordings of sounds. Many accounts include photographs of mammal skeletal elements, especially, crania and teeth. Many of these images emphasize characteristics of the specimens that are of taxonomic importance. The descriptions of the class Mammalia, subclasses, orders and families were originally written for an earlier version of this course, and they are recommended reading for each laboratory period. These are meant to provide a readily-available means of review and study. Use this system to your advantage! We encourage you to bring laptops to lab so that you can use the ADW as you review specimens. Others have found it useful to bring a camera as well. EEB 451 Lab schedule 2016 Wednesdays 3031 Ruthven Section 2, 9:00-12:00, Section 3, 2:00-5:00
Jan. 13 Introduction to bones and teeth; Chapter 3 (Vaughan et al., 2015) pp.47-56
Jan. 20 Introduction to bones and teeth; Chapter 3 (Vaughan et al., 2015) pp.47-56, cont.
Jan. 27 Monotremata (Ornithorhynchidae, Tachyglossidae); Didelphimorphia (Didelphidae); Paucituberculata (Caenolestidae); Dasyuromorphia (Dasyuridae); Diprotodontia (Phalangeridae, Potoroidae, Macropodidae, Vombatidae, Phascolarctidae, Tarsipedidae)
Feb. 3 Erinaceomorpha (Erinaceidae); Soricomorpha (Talpidae, Solenodontidae, Soricidae)
Feb. 10 Afrotheria: Afrosoricida (Tenrecidae, Chrysochloridae). Macroscelidea: (Macroscelididae). Tubulidentata (Orycteropodidae). Sirenia (Dugongidae, Trichechidae); Hyracoidea (Procaviidae); Proboscidea (Elephantidae) Xenarthra: Pilosa (Bradypodidae, Megalonychidae, Cyclopedidae, Myrmecophagidae); Cingulata (Dasypodidae)
Feb. 17 Chiroptera (Pteropodidae, Emballonuridae, Hipposideridae, Noctilionidae, Megadermatidae, Rhinolophidae, Phyllostomidae, Vespertilionidae, Molossidae)
Feb 24 EXAM I
Mar.9 Cetartiodactyla (Suidae, Tayassuidae, Hippopotamidae, Camelidae, Giraffidae, Moschidae, Cervidae, Antilocapridae, Bovidae, Balaenopteridae, Delphinidae, Monodontidae, Phocoenidae, Physeteridae); Perissodactyla (Tapiridae, Rhinocerotidae, Equidae)
Mar. 16 Carnivora (Canidae, Ursidae, Procyonidae, Mustelidae, Mephitidae, Ailuridae, Viverridae, Herpestidae, Hyaenidae, Felidae, Otariidae, Odobenidae, Phocidae); Pholidota (Manidae)
Mar. 23 Primates (Lemuridae, Loridae, Galagonidae, Tarsiidae, Atelidae, Aotidae, Cebidae, Callitrichidae, Cercopithecidae, Hylobatidae, Hominidae); Dermoptera (Cynocephalidae); Scandentia (Tupaiidae)
Mar. 30 Rodentia: Sciuromorpha (Aplodontidae, Gliridae, Sciuridae); Castorimorpha (Castoridae, Geomyidae, Heteromyidae); Hystricomorpha (Bathyergidae, Agoutidae, Hystricidae, Erethizontidae, Chinchillidae, Caviidae, Hydrochaeridae, Dasyproctidae, Ctenomyidae, Echimyidae, Myocastoridae)
Apr.6 Rodentia: Myomorpha (Dipodidae, Muridae, Nesomyidae, Cricetidae [Cricetinae, Sigmodontinae, Arvicolinae], Spalacidae); Lagomorpha (Ochotonidae, Leporidae)
Apr. 13 EXAM II
Important note: Attendance in lab is essential. A lab cannot be made up once the week is over and the specimens have been put away. If you must miss your assigned lab during some week, attend the other lab section. However, please let Lisa know beforehand.