Rob's Semi-lecturely Outline

Lecture 9 – Coral Reefs, Bilaterians, Coelomic space
Formation of Coral Reefs
        - Types of Reefs
        - Mechanisms of formation
        - Reef zones/ecology
        - Reef productivity
Bilaterians – Key Innovations
        - Bilateral symmetry
        - Cephalization
        - Mesoderm
        - Coeloms
Coelom Differences In Bilateria
        - Acoelomate
        - Pseudocoelomate
        - Coelomate
        - Advantages to Coelomate organization
Prostome versus Deuterostome Bilateria
        - Developmental differences
                - fate of blastopore
                - mesoderm formation mechanism
                - regulative/mosaic development

  Lecture 7 – Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Coral Reefs
Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa
        - muscles and movement (hydrostatic skeletons)
        - digestion
        - nerve net
      Class Scyphozoa
        - Swimming function
        - Life Cycle
Phylum Ctenophora
      - Similarities, differences with Cnidaria
      - Colloblasts
      - Luminescense
Coral Reefs
   - Reef distributions and picture intro.
   - The corals that make reefs
   - Zooxanthellae and corals
   - Causes of coral decline
   - Coral formation
   - Coral thickness and age.
   - Coral ecology

Lecture 6

Introduction to Cnidaria
    - Cnidaria innovations
    - Cnidocytes and nematocyst function
    - Tissue layers and body plan
     Class Hydrozoa
    - life cycle
    - coloniality and zooid types
    - bioluminescence
     Class Anthozoa
    - muscles and movement (hydrostatic skeletons)
    - digestion
    - nerve net
     Class Scyphozoa
    - Swimming function
    - Life Cycle

Lecture 5

Mass Extinctions cont…
   Cretaceous/Tertiary Mass Extinction
   Holocene/Recent Mass Extinctions
      - How is the H/R extinction different?
Introduction to Poriferans
        - Sponge groups
        - Spong tissue/cell types
                - water filtering
        - Sponge architecture
        - Spong Habitat
        - Reproduction/Gemmules
        - Sponge self/non-self recognition

(If time)
    Introduction to Cnidaria
        - Cnidaria innovations
        - Cnidocytes
        - nematocyst function

Lecture 4

 1.  Key features in metazoan    diversification
2.  Origination of the Major Phyla
    -  Earlier diversification of Vendian
         fauna
    -  The Cambrian Explosion
        - fuses for the explosion
3.  Changes in diversification through time
    - example in Sponges
Mass extinctions as major diversity reducers
    - Permian-Triassic Extinction (P/T)
    - Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction (K/T)
    - Holocene-Recent Extinctions