PřF:Bi0260 Taxonomy - Course Information
Bi0260 Taxonomy and zoological nomenclature
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2010
- 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), prof. RNDr. Jaromír Vaňhara, CSc. (deputy)
RNDr. Andrea Špalek Tóthová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Kment (lecturer), prof. RNDr. Jaromír Vaňhara, CSc. (deputy) - 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
- Wed 17:00–18:50 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
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: 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. Examples and the chapter on nomenclature are primarily aimed at students of systematic zoology, interested students of other branches of biology are however welcome.
- 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. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2004, 89 s. ISBN 807042995X. info
- FLEGR, Jaroslav. Evoluční biologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2005, 559 s. ISBN 8020012702. info
- Mezinárodní pravidla zoologické nomenklatury : přijaté Mezinárodní unií biologických věd. Translated by Václav Houša - Pavel Štys. 4. vyd. Praha: Česká společnost entomologická, 2003, 8, xxxi. ISBN 8023915398. 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
- 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
- Zima J., Macholán M., Munclinger P., Piálek J. Genetické metody v zoologii. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Karolinum, Praha, 239s, 2004 ISBN 80-246-0795-6.
- ŽUROVEC, Michal. Molekulární biologie živočichů. Vyd. 1. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita, 1999, 312 s. ISBN 8070403330. info
- MARHOLD, Karol and Jan SUDA. Statistické zpracování mnohorozměrných dat v taxonomii : (fenetické metody). 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2002, 159 s. ISBN 8024604388. info
- WINSTON, Judith E. Describing species : practical taxonomic procedure for biologists. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1999, xx, 518. ISBN 0231068247. info
- Wägele, Johann-Wolfgang: Foundations of phylogenetic systematics. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, 2005. 365 s. ISBN 3-89937-056-2.
- Assessment methods
- Written test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
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