Syllabus
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.)
Annotation
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.