Unit BYOSISTEMATICS

Course
Biology
Study-unit Code
GP004069
Curriculum
Biodiversita' e gestione delle risorse naturali
Teacher
Silvana Piersanti
CFU
12
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2021/22
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa integrata

ANIMAL BYOSISTEMATICS

Code GP004081
CFU 6
Teacher Silvana Piersanti
Teachers
  • Silvana Piersanti
Hours
  • 47 ore - Silvana Piersanti
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline del settore biodiversità e ambiente
Academic discipline BIO/05
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents Basic concepts of Biosystematic, Phylogenetic and linnean taxonomy, morphological and molecular philogenesis. Diversity of Arthropoda and their phylogeny. Main taxa of Arthropods.
Reference texts Zoologia degli Invertebrati, RuppertE.E., Fox R.S. e Barnes R.D.,2007 Ed. Piccin

Lineamenti di Zoologia Sistematica, Baccetti et al.,1996, Ed. Zanichelli

Diversità animale, Cleveland Hickman, 2012, Ed. McGraw-Hill Companies

Diversità animale, M. Cobolli e V. Ketmaier , 2008, Ed. McGraw-Hill Companies

Lineamenti di Entomologia, Penny J. Gullan, Peter S. Cranston, 2006, Ed. Zanichelli

Guida agli Insetti d'Europa, 2010, Michael Chinery, Ed. Franco Muzzio
Educational objectives The student must be able to describe and recognize animals belonging to the main taxa of Arthropoda at a high taxonomic level.
Prerequisites Students need good knowledge on Zoology (General Zoology and fundamental Taxonomy), knowledge on the basic principles of evolution.
Teaching methods Lectures in the classroom and some practical activities in the field and in the laboratory (at least 12 hours)
Other information The schedule of the lessons and the exams are available on the Department's website: http://www.dcbb.unipg.it
The teacher can be contacted by e-mail for any need (exam dates, concepts).
Additional teaching materials, such as course slides or scientific publications related to the topics discussed, are made available to all students with free access in the uni-studium web site during the course.
Learning verification modality The schedule of the lessons and the exams are available on the Department's website: http://www.dcbb.unipg.it
The teacher can be contacted by e-mail for any need (exam dates, concepts).
Additional teaching materials, such as course slides or scientific publications related to the topics discussed, are made available to all students with free access in the uni-studium web site during the course.
Extended program Basic concepts of Biosystematic, Phylogenetic and linnean taxonomy, morphological and molecular philogenesis, applied to the problems and challenges of the taxonomy of Chordata.

Diversity of Arthropoda and their phylogeny.
Panarthropoda: Onicofora e Tardigrada

Subphylum Chelicerata, Picnogonida and Xiphosura. Aracnida, generalities and main orders (Scorpioni, Uropigi (e Schizomidi), Amblipigi, Opilionidi, Solifugi, Pseudoscorpioni, Palpigradi, Ricinulei e Acari). Aranea: Mesotela, Migalomorpha end Aranomorpha.

Subphylum Crustacea. Generalities and main taxa in Crustacea (Remipedi, Cirripedi, Copepodi, Ostracodi, Cefalocaridi, Anostraci, Fillopodi Notostraci and Cladoceri, Malacostraca)
Miriapoda (Chilopodi, Sinfili, Diplopodi e Pauropodi).

Exapoda, Collemboli, Proturi and Dipluri. Insects, generalities, external and internal morphology.
Insect biodiversity, relationship with people and main insect orders and suborders
(Atterigoti e Pterigoti, Paleotteri e Neotteri, Tisanuri, Archeognati e Zigentomi, Efemerotteri, Odonati, Blattoidei, Mantoidei, Fasmidi, Ortotteri (Celiferi ed Ensiferi), Grilloblattoidei Isotteri, Dermatteri, Embiotteri, Zoratteri, Plecotteri. Paraneotteri: Psocotteri, Mallofagi, Anopluri,Tisanotteri, Emitteri (Omotteri ed Eterotteri). Olometaboli: Neurotteri (Megalotteri, Rafidioidei e Planipenni), Mecotteri. Olometaboli: Tricotteri, Lepidotteri, Coleotteri (Polifagi ed Adefagi), Imenotteri (Terebranti e Aculeati), Ditteri (Nematoceri e Brachiceri), Strepsitteri)

PLANT BYOSISTEMATICS

Code GP004080
CFU 6
Teacher Paola Angelini
Teachers
  • Paola Angelini
Hours
  • 47 ore - Paola Angelini
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline del settore biodiversità e ambiente
Academic discipline BIO/03
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction The basic course is held in the Italian language even if the use of foreignlanguage
terms and scientific literature in English implies for the
discussion of specific arguments directly in the native language without
the help of the translation.
Contents The contents of the course intend to deepen the aspects of morphological
systematics necessary for the recognition of species through a
phylogenetic and molecular analysis necessary to understand the most
typical aspects of evolutionary biology and reproductive and
environmental adaptations
Reference texts There are many texts available to students who can become aware of the
various theories offered by the various specialists. Where arguments are
more closely linked to scientific research, articles published in the best
international journals are utilized.
Suggested texts:
Strasburger Trattato di Botanica per le Università. Voll. 1 e 2. Delfino
editore
Gabriella Pasqua, Giovanna Abbate, Cinzia Forni Botanica generale e
biodiversità vegetale. Piccin/Nuova Libreria.
Kellog J.C. Botanica sistematica. Un approccio filogenetico. - [Piccin]
Mayer A. 2015 Flora escursionistica dell’Italia, Prima parte – Italia
centrale. Indipendent Scientific Edition.
English:
Stace C. A. Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics. Edward Arnold
Grant W. Plant Biosystematics. Academic Press
Educational objectives The training objectives are focused on the knowledge of plant species in
numerical terms to acquire a certain ability in the processes of
determination and recognition of the collected samples. Starting from this
level of basic knowledge, it will be possible to address the issues of
biosynthesis related to the differentiation of forms and functions, the
mechanisms of pollination and reproduction, of molecular differentiation
in particularly complex groups from the point of view of classical
taxonomy.
Prerequisites The student must have excellent knowledge bases in Plant Biology
(Botany, Biodiversity, Vegetation Science, Corology).
Teaching methods Frontal teaching with laboratory experience.
Other information The teacher can be contacted by e-mail for any need (reception, exam dates, program).
Additional teaching materials, such as course slides or scientific publications concerning the topics covered, are made available to students with free access to uni-studium during the course.
Learning verification modality Oral examination
Extended program Systematics and Taxonomy: Purposes, Historical Development of Plant
Taxonomy from Origins to Modern Phylogenetic Methods.
Classification, concept of species, taxonomic ranks, nomenclature, study
of variability. Characters with taxonomic value.
Plant structure (cormophytes): Morphological and anatomical
characteristics, form and function, evolutionary and coevolutionary
aspects of the various reproductive and non-reproductive organs.
Molecular systematics.
Genetics, importance of chromosomal number, hybridization, isolation.
Importance of Evolutionary, Geographical and Ecological factors, Plant
Plant Pathology.
Biogeography of plants: areas of distribution, disjunctions, vicariate,
endemisms, diversity centers, alien plants, etc.
State of biodiversity and plants at risk of extinction.
Taxonomy in practice. Collection of data: gather plants in nature,
herbarium, measurements of morphological parameters, analytical keys
for plant identification, nomenclature code.
The flora of Italy, the main families of Italian flora, theory and practice in
identifying and comparing morphological characters that distinguish
different orders, families and species. Phylogenetic interpretation,
cladistics rudiments
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