ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 34 Interactive Classroom: 15 Total: 52
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Physiology
Areas: Physiology
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
At the end of the course, a student should know, in a clear and integrated manner, the functions and the regulation of the different physiological systems of the animal organisms, both from the point of view individual as compared.
Lectures Program: 34h
1. Evolution of physiology concept. The animal comparative physiology. Objectives of comparative animal physiology. Evolution of nervous systems. (3h)
2. Sensory physiology. Mechanoreceptors. The acoustic-lateral system. Electroreceptors. Chemoreception. Photoreception. Other sensory systems. (6.5h)
3. Invertebrate muscular physiology. Behavior: Reflex and fixed action pattern. Motor control. Other effector systems. (2.5h)
4. General aspects of invertebrate endocrine and neuroendocrine control. Molusca Endocrinology. (2h)
5. Crustaceans endocrinology. Insects’ endocrinology. (3h)
6. Nonmammalian vertebrate endocrinology. (1h)
7. Cardiovascular system: Evolution. Propulsion systems. Blood and hemolymph. (5.5h)
8. Respiratory systems. Aquatic respiration. Aerial respiration in invertebrates and nonmammalian vertebrates. (2.5h)
9. Digestive physiology in invertebrates and vertebrates. (1.5h)
10. Temperature and body metabolism. Ectotherms and Endotherms. (1.5h)
11. Osmotic and ionic regulation. Excretion. (5h)
Interactive sessions: 15h
Practices (computer classroom): 5h. Temperature and opercular beat in fish.
Seminars: 10h
Tutorials: 3h
Basic
Gilles, R., 2006. Physiologie animale. Bruxelles: De Boeck.
Hill, R.W., Wyse, G.A. & Anderson, N., 2006. Fisiología animal. Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana.
Hill, R.W., Wyse, G.A. & Anderson, M., 2012. Animal physiology. 3rd ed. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer.
Moyes, C.D & Schulte, P.M., 2006. Principios de Fisiología Animal. Madrid: Pearson-Addison Wesley.
Moyes, C.D & Schulte, P.M., 2016. Principles of Animal Physiology. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Pearson
Willmer, P., Stone, G. & Johnston, I., 2005. Environmental physiology of animals. 2nd ed. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell
Complementary
Evans, D.H., 2014. The physiology of fishes. 4th ed. Boca Ratón,Florida: CRC Press.
Klowden, M.J., 2013. Physiological systems in Insects. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press.
Norris, D.O. & Carr, J.A., 2013. Vertebrate endocrinology. 5th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press.
Randall, D.J., Burggren, W.W., French, K. & Eckert, R., 2002. Eckert animal physiology: mechanisms and adaptations. 5th ed. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.
General skills
The ones specified on the grade memorandum for all the subjects.
Cross skills
CT1 - Ability to search, process, analyze and synthesize information from various sources.
CT2 - Capacity for reasoning, argumentation, and critical thinking.
CT3 - Ability to work in a group and address problem situations collectively.
CT4 - Ability to prepare and present an organized and understandable text.
CT5 - Ability to make a presentation in public in a clear, concise, and coherent manner.
CT6 - Ability to adequately reflect the sources of information used.
CT7 - Ability to solve problems through the integrated application of their knowledge, promoting initiative and creativity.
CT8 - Ability to organize and plan work.
CT9 - Ability to interpret experimental results.
Specific skills
CE1 - Understand and integrate the functioning and regulation of the main physiological processes of living beings as well as their interaction with the biotic and abiotic environment.
Methodology of teaching
Lectures: The teacher will develop key aspects of the program. The student can use the virtual campus tools to download the abstracts from the presentations. An attendance of 70% or higher is required to pass the course.
Seminars: The seminars will discuss issues and problems related to the program. The content of the seminars should normally be worked on beforehand by the student and handed over to the relevant teacher. A 100% attendance is required to pass the course.
The tutorials will be online (TEAMS)
Interactive activities up to 3. Exam (in the classroom and/or online)
Lecture classes: up to 7. In the classroom examination
TOTAL: 3+7
The lecture classes exam consists of three parts, the rating of which will be added. The minimum note required to enable add 4 out of 10 in the exam.
Assessment of skills
Exam: CT1, CT2, CT9, CT10
Practical session: CT3, CT11
Seminars: CT4, CT9, CT10, CT11
Time of study and personal work
6 ECTS: 25 hours/credit: 150 hours
Regulated hours: 34 hours in lectures, 10 hours seminars, 5 hours practical sessions, 3 hours of tutorials,2 hours of exam for a total of 144 hours
Hours of study: 95 hours
Total: 144 hours
The student must complete the course of Animal Physiology from the first semester. It is also highly recommended that the student participates actively in all the evaluable sections and takes the study of the subject regularly.
Students will have access to online material to follow the course.
Olga Barca Mayo
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- olga.barca.mayo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
Ruben Nogueiras Pozo
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815437
- ruben.nogueiras [at] usc.es
- Category
- Investigador/a Distinguido/a
Miguel Antonio Lopez Perez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815420
- m.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Begoña Porteiro Couto
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- begona.porteiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Juan de la Cierva Programme
Maria Luengo Mateos
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- maria.luengo.mateos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 04: James Watson and Francis Crick |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 04: James Watson and Francis Crick |
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