Main group 1

Invertebrates

We really recommend "The invertebrate tree " as it follows the phylogenetic approach the course is implementing. The other two books are more reference books with extraordinary detail.

• Brusca, Richard C.; Moore, Wendy; Shuster, Stephen M., Invertebrates, Third edition., Sunderland, Massachusetts U.S.A., Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, 2016
• Ruppert, Edward E.; Fox, Richard S.; Barnes, Robert D., Invertebrate zoology: a functional evolutionary approach, 7. ed., Belmont, Calif., Thomson, 2004
• Giribet, Gonzalo; Edgecombe, Gregory D., The invertebrate tree of life, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2020

Vertebrates

• Kardong, Kenneth, Vertebrates: comparative anatomy, function, evolution, Eighth edition, international edition, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Education, 2018

For the labs the following book is optional

• De Iuliis, Gerardo; Pulerà, Dino, The dissection of vertebrates: a laboratory manual, Amsterdam, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2006

The book will be available in the lab.