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Recommended for Lab portion of the course (click on the text image for a direct amazon.com link):

Nybakken, J.W. 1996. Diversity of Marine Invertebrates: A Laboratory Manual Pacific Coast Version. McGraw-Hill, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
[Please ensure with seller you are buying the Pacific Coast Version, although depending on the price the Gulf of Mexico edition might also be worth buying.]

Wallace, Robert L. and Walter K. Taylor. 2002. Invertebrate Zoology: A Laboratory Manual, 6th ed. Benjamin Cummings. [5th ed. is probably fine and amazon.com has multiple copies for < $1]

Recommended for the lecture and lab portions of the course (click on the text image for a direct amazon.com link):
Any of the following new or used invertebrate zoology texts can be extremely useful for this course, and they often can be purchased for incredibly inexpensive prices, so that you need to pay little more than the shipping costs. These are all outstanding in their own way.

Anderson, D.T. (ed.) 2002. Invertebrate Zoology, 2nd ed. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

Brusca, Richard C. and Gary J. Brusca. 2003. Invertebrates, Second Edition. Sinauer Associations, Sunderland, Massachusetts. Sample chapter on Protista here.

Brusca, Richard C. and Gary J. Brusca. 1990. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associations, Sunderland, Massachusetts. [Note: Replaced by new second edition in 2003 -- see above.]

Kozloff, Eugene. 1990. Invertebrates. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Meglitsch, Paul A. and Frederick R. Schram. 1991. Invertebrate zoology, 3rd edition. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

Moore, Janet , 2001. An introduction to the invertebrates. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

Pearse, Vicki, John Pearse, Mildred Buchsbaum and Ralph Buchsbaum. 1987. Living invertebrates. Blackwell Sci. Pub. and Boxwood Press.

Pechenik, Jan A. 2009. Biology of the Invertebrates, 6th. ed. McGraw-Hill, New York.

Pechenik, Jan A. 2015. Biology of the Invertebrates, 7th. ed. (about $200!) McGraw-Hill, New York.

Ruppert, Edward E., Fox, Richard S., and Robert D. Barnes. 2003. Invertebrate zoology: A functional evolutionary approach, 7th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Ruppert, Edward E. and Robert D. Barnes. 1994. Invertebrate zoology, 6th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia. [4th or 5th ed. might also suffice if you find a bargain]

Amazon.com links: Nybakken, Wallace & Taylor 6th, Wallace & Taylor 5th, Anderson, Brusca & Brusca, 2nd Ed., Brusca & Brusca, 1st Ed., Kozloff, Megalitsch and Schram, Moore, Pearse & Buchsbaum, Pechenik, Ruppert et. al., Ruppert & Barnes

The following discussion was from Fall, 2010. For Fall 2015 I am requiring Pearse and Buchsbaum, which we will supplement with more up-to-date readings for some topics.

Some more details on why you should take my advice and buy one or more of these:

1) I noticed that if you are persistent you can buy a used copy for perhaps $10 to $15 (compared to nearly $100 new for some).

2) All the books above are very good and cover approximately the same topics, but all are also out of date with current ideas about metazoan relationships and methods of classification, except that the newest edition of Pechenik is fairly up to date (but it costs about $200!!). .

3) All will be extremely useful to you in this course, but primarily as a reference text, rather than something you will read chapter by chapter.

4) Expect that you will also get selected photocopies of selected good dissection guides or relevant articles or other useful handouts for free throughout the semester. You will be expected to maintain these in your own three-hole punched notebook .

As for which book you should buy, for many years the Ruppert and Barnes' text was probably the most widely used of these, and is very good. Pearse and Buchsbaum's text is affordable and is more readable than the others, featuring lots of informative simplified drawings, interesting photographs, and natural history descriptions. Kozloff's and Pechenik's books are both quite good if you are looking for a concise presentation in a more traditional text format. Brusca and Brusca's text (either first or second editions -- the latter has color figures) is probably the most encyclopedic of all of these. Be sure to comparison shop. Some bookstores or online auction sites might have one of these at a bargain price, but please check the edition number before you buy. Notice that none of these have a date earlier than 1990.

With all this diversity of texts, you might wonder why reading them would help you on an exam. The reason is because the sorts of exam questions I will feature in this course have relatively little to do with memorizing tons of details. Here are some example take-home exam questions that might be easier to answer with more texts, rather than only our required one:

"Compare and contrast locomotion in a creeping snail and a burrowing clam."

"Compare and contrast how crustacean head appendages are used in a copepod, a barnacle, and a lobster."

Expect that I will emphasize these sorts of questions throughout the term, giving you opportunity to consult your text before you are asked them in an exam, and you can always email me with specific page numbers from your text if I happen to question your application of the material from your particular text.

Besides your use of the text to study these sorts of review questions, your text will be very useful as a resource for your lab observations and as a supplement for the assigned coursepack readings, some of which are quite dense.

The last time I taught this course I used many of the following for parts of this course, and you can expect I might use some of these again, although this listing needs to be updated to be more current and I plan to place more emphasis on our required text this semester:

Part 1

Carroll, S.B., J.K. Grenier, and S.D. Weatherbee, 2001. Figure 4.1, Metazoan phylogeny. P. 99, in: From DNA to diversity: molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design. Blackwell Science, Inc., Malden, Massachusetts.

Pearse, V., J. Pearse, M. Buchsbaum and R. Buchsbaum. 1987. Preface/ Chapter 1. Seeking perspective. Pp. 1-8, in: Living Invertebrates. Boxwood Press, Pacific Grove, California.

Carroll, S.B., J.K. Grenier, and S.D. Weatherbee, 2001. Chapter 1. A brief history of animals. Pp. 1-14, in: From DNA to diversity: molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design. Blackwell Science, Inc., Malden, Massachusetts.

Adoutte, A., G. Balavoine, N. Lartillot, and R. de Rosa, 1999. Animal evolution: the end of intermediate taxa? Trends in Genetics 15: 104-109. [On campus search for 'Trends in Genetics' in Journals and you can download a pdf version with color figures here or access a web version here]

Dott, R.H. Jr., and D.R. Prothero, 1994. Appendix 1 (in part). Pp. A4-A11, in: Evolution of the Earth, 5th ed. McGraw-Hill, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Laverack, M.S., 1987. Generalities. Pp. 1-10, in: Lecture notes on invertebrate zoology, 3rd ed. Blackwell Scientific Pub., Palo Alto, California.

Ruppert, E.E. and R.D. Barnes. 1994. Inside Cover and Introduction. Pp. i-ii, 2-21, in: Invertebrate zoology, 6th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Young, C.M., 2002. A brief history and some fundamentals. Pp. 1-9, in: C.M. Young (ed.) Atlas of marine invertebrate larvae. Academic Press, San Diego.

General Concepts

Brusca, R.C. and G.J. Brusca, 1990. Chapter 3. Animal architecture and the bauplan concept. Pp. 43-96, in: Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Metazoan Origins and Sponges

Ruppert, E.E. and R.D. Barnes. 1994. Evolution of metazoans/Epithelial and connective tissues/Metazoan life cycles and development. Pp. 69-73, in: Invertebrate zoology, 6th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Phylogenetic Analysis

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron, 2001. Chapter 2 (in part). The evidence for evolution, and Chapter 13. Reconstructing evolutionary trees. Pp. 21-30, 437-464, in: Evolutionary analysis. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

Ruppert, E.E. and R.D. Barnes. 1994. Homology and analogy/Phylogenetic classification/ Phylogenetic classification of metazoans. Pp. 864-866; 1042-1056, in: Invertebrate zoology, 6th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Nielsen, C., 2001. Chapter 1, Introduction, and Chapter 2, Kingdom Animalia (= Metazoa). Pp. 1-33, in: Animal evolution: interrelationships of the living phyla, 2nd ed. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

Tissues, Guts, and Cnidarians

Ruppert, E.E. and R.D. Barnes. 1994. Epithelia/ Skeletons/ Movement/ Nervous systems/ Eyes/ Gut cavities/ Embryonic development/ Colonies. Pp. 96-103; 997-1003, in: Invertebrate zoology, 6th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Bilateria: General Features and Subgroups

Ruppert, E.E. and R.D. Barnes. 1994. Bilateral symmetry/ Compartmentation/ Coeloms/ Pseudocoels/ Reproduction/ Cleavage patterns/ Gastrulation/ Protostomes and Deuterostomes/ Burrowing mechanics/ Deposit feeding/ Respiratory pigments/ Trochophore larvae/ Eyes/ Chemosynthetic symbionts/ Spermatophores/ Larval settlement/ Segmentation/ Coelomates and acoelomates/ Cuticles. Pp. 175-202, 337-343, 362-365, 500-506, in: Invertebrate zoology, 6th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Nielsen, C., 2001. Chapter 12, Protostomia, Chapter 13, Spiralia, and Chapter 43, Deuterostomia sensu lato. Pp. 103-137; 370-384, in: Animal evolution: interrelationships of the living phyla, 2nd ed. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

Emlet, R.B., C.M. Young, and S.B. George, 2002. Phylum Echinodermata: Echinoidea. Pp. 531-551, in: C.M. Young (ed.) Atlas of marine invertebrate larvae. Academic Press, San Diego.

Cambrian Explosion

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron, 2001. Chapter 15. The Cambrian explosion and beyond. Pp. 507-521, in: Evolutionary analysis. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

Briggs, D.E.G., D.H. Erwin, and F.J. Collier, 1994. History of research/Geological setting and preservation/The Cambrian radiation/Species recorded from the Burgess Shale. Pp. 1-50, 217-221, in: The fossils of the Burgess Shale. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Evolution and Development ("Evo Devo")

Carroll, S.B., J.K. Grenier, and S.D. Weatherbee, 2001. Chapter 2, The genetic toolkit for development, and Chapter 3 (in part), Building animals. Pp. 15-53, in: From DNA to diversity: molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design. Blackwell Science, Inc., Malden, Massachusetts.

Davidson, E.H., 2001. Chapter 1, Regulatory hardwiring: a brief overview of the genomic control apparatus and its causal role in development and evolution. Pp. 1-23, in: Genomic Regulatory Systems. Academic Press, San Diego.

Carroll, S.B., J.K. Grenier, and S.D. Weatherbee, 2001. Chapter 4, Evolution of the toolkit. Pp. 97-121, in: From DNA to diversity: molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design. Blackwell Science, Inc., Malden, Massachusetts.

Further Reading (Later in Semester – Tentative)

Eernisse, D.J., J.S. Albert, and F.E. Anderson, 1992. Annelida and arthropoda are not sister taxa: A phylogenetic analysis of spiralian metazoan morphology. Systematic Biology 41: 305-330.

Peterson, K.J., and D.J. Eernisse, 2001. Animal phylogeny and the ancestry of bilaterians: inferences from morphology and 18S rDNA gene sequences. Evolution and Development 3: 170-205. [pdf available here]

Bier, E., 2000. Chapter 3, Establishing the primary axes of fruit fly embryos, and Chapter 4, Patterning fly appendages and eyes. Pp. 48-116, in: The coiled spring: how life begins. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York. (pp. 48-116).

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