PROFESSOR: Brian McKeown (E-mail: mckeown@sfu.ca)                         OFFICE: SSB 8151 (291-3538)
 
COURSE FEE: $ 3.00

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will deal with how animals function in their environment. As such we will consider the major environmental features that have shaped the evolution of physiological systems: energy and temperature, oxygen, and water, as well as mechanisms of coordination and integration of these physiological systems.

1. Energy - metabolism (2 lectures), temperature (2)
2. Oxygen - gas exchange (4), blood and circulation (6)
3. Water - osmoregulation (3), excretion (2)
4. Coordination/integration - movement and muscles (5), nerves and nervous systems (8), chemical communication (2), sensory systems (2)

 
COURSE TIMETABLE:  3 lectures and 1 tutorial per week

There will be four tutorial exercises, each of which will be completed over 2-3 weeks; these exercises will be quantitative and will involve computing, statistical analysis and graphing.

MARK DISTRIBUTION:

Tutorial work  25%
Midterm   25%
Final exam   50%

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:

Randall, D., Burggren, W. & French, K. (1997) Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations. 4th edition, W.H. Freeman & Company, New York (this is the new version of Eckertâs Animal Physiology)

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS:

1. Withers, P. (1992) Comparative Animal Physiology. Saunders College Publishing, New York; 2.  Schmidt-Nielsen, K. (1994). Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment. Cambridge University Press;  3.  Louw, G. (1993). Physiological Animal Ecology. Longman, Harlow; 4. Sall, J & Lehman, A. (1996) JMP Start Statistics (with JMP 3.1 stats/graphing software), Duxbury Press.