PřF:Bi0260 Taxonomy - Course Information
Bi0260 Taxonomy and zoological nomenclature
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Igor Malenovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Andrea Špalek Tóthová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Kment, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Jaromír Vaňhara, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jaromír Vaňhara, CSc. - Timetable
- Tue 9:00–10:50 BR4
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Bi1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates && Bi2090 System evolution vertebrates
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Biology - Museology (programme PřF, M-BI, specialization Zoology)
- Systematic Biology and Ecology (programme PřF, M-BI, specialization Systematic Zoology and Ecology)
- Systematic Biology and Ecology (programme PřF, N-BI, specialization Systematic Zoology and Ecology)
- Course objectives
- An introduction to the terminology and methods of biological systematics and taxonomy. Special attention is paid to the methods of phylogeny reconstruction, natural classification and rules of zoological nomenclature. Practical examples and the chapter on nomenclature are primarily aimed at students of systematic zoology, the course is however open also to interested students from other branches of biology.
- Syllabus
- 1. Systematics, taxonomy and a brief review on their history. 2. Taxon, category, species concept, character, intraspecific variation. 3. Phenetics, review and use of multivariate statistics in contemporary taxonomy. 4. Similarity and relation, homology and homoplasy, hypothesis in systematics, phylogeny reconstruction. 5. Cladistics: (syn)apomorphy, (sym)plesiomorphy, character polarity and coding, principle of maximum parsimony, cladogram construction. 6. Character optimization and weighting, tree statistics, consensus, cladistic software, exercises. 7. Molecular taxonomy: review on molecular markers and methods, sequencing of nucleic acids. 8. Homology of molecular characters, substitution models, construction of phylogenetic tree based on molecular data. 9. Advantages and limits of molecular and morphological data, sources of error and conflict, integration of different types of data into a phylogenetic analysis. 10. Applications of phylogenetic analysis: classification, historical biogeography, tests of coevolution and evolutionary scenarios. 11-12. International code of zoological nomeclature: availability, validity and composition of names, homonymy and synonymy, principle of priority versus stability, type concept in nomenclature. 13. Work with taxonomic material and literature: collections, taxonomic revision, description of new taxa, identification keys, internet sources.
- Literature
- Drozd, Pavel: Principy systematiky a taxonomie. Ostravská univerzita, Ostrava, 2004. 98 s. ISBN 80-7042-995-X.
- Fleger J. (2005): Evoluční biologie. Academia, Praha, 557 s. ISBN 80-200-1270-2.
- KITSCHING, Jan J. and Peter L. et al. FOREY. Cladistics. The theory and practice of parsimony analysis. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 228 pp. ISBN 0 19 850138 2. info
- SCHUH, Randall T. Biological Systematics. Priciples and Applications. 1st ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000, 239 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3675-3. info
- Mezinárodní komise pro zoologickou nomenklaturu (ICZN) (2003): Mezinárodní pravidla zoologické nomenklatury. 4. vyd. (přel. Houša, Václav - Štys, Pavel). Česká společnost entomologická, Praha, 182 s. ISBN 80-239-1539-8.
- Wägele, Johann-Wolfgang: Foundations of phylogenetic systematics. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, 2005. 365 s. ISBN 3-89937-056-2.
- Winston, Judith E.: Describing species. Practical taxonomic procedure for biologists. Columbia University Press, New York, 1999. 518 s. ISBN 0-231-06825-5.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2007, recent)
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