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Evolutionary and systematic zoology - MB170P56
Title: Evoluční a systematická zoologie
Czech title: Evoluční a systematická zoologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Zoology (31-170)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Pavel Hulva, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Pavel Hulva, Ph.D.
RNDr. Vladimír Vohralík, CSc.
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Annotation -
Last update: VOHRALIK (22.04.2007)
Please note, the lectures are given in czech language only.
Basic concepts, theoretical approaches and methods of comparative biology,
taxonomy and phylogenetics relevant to higher classification and the animal species from
a viewpoint of phylogenetic systematics. Obligatory for all specializations of
Zoology.

Literature -
Last update: VOHRALIK (22.04.2007)

Mayr E. & Ashlock P.T. 1991: Principles of Systematic Zoology. 2nd Ed.

McGraw Hill, New York.

Kitching I.J. et al. 1998: Cladistics. 2nd Rd. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Schuh R.T. 2000: Biological Systematics. Cornell Univ. Press. Ithaca (N.Y.).

Mezinárodní komise pro zoologickou nomenklaturu 2003: Mezinárodní pravidla zoologické nomenklatury. Česká spol. enomologická, Praha.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: PAVELSTYS (26.10.2011)

Zkouška je ústní v rozsahu přednášené látky a doporučené literatury.

Syllabus -
Last update: VOHRALIK (22.04.2007)

1. Basic terms and concepts

2. Character, its weighting and polarization

2.1. Methods a priori and a posteriori

2.2. Homology and homoplasy

2.3. Plesiomorphy a apomorphy

2.4. Outgroup comparison

2.5. Coding of character states

3.Taxa

3.1. Monophylum, paraphyletic and polyphyletic taxa

3.2. Kinds and composition of monophyla

3.3. Objective paraphyly, problem of the stem-line and ancestor

3.4. Phenetics, eclectic classification, phylogenetic systematics, transformed cladistics

4. Cladogram and its construction

4.1. Dendrograms, their kinds and components

5. Molecular phylogenetics

6. Phylogenetic hypothesis and classification

7. Species

7.1. Alternative conceptions of the animal species

7.2. Special cases of species (uniparental species, klepton)

7.3. Cryptic species,superspecies, semispecies

7.4. Infraspecific taxa

7.5. Hybrid zones

8. Intraspecific variability and its causes

9. Usage of zoological literature and auxiliary sources, search for references

1O. Preparing manuscript for publication

11. Zoological nomenclature

12. Geographical tools in zoology (grid maps, gazetters, GPS, GIS, etc.)

 
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