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: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
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.
Conocimientos generales:
Los especificados en la memoria del Grado para el conjunto de materias
Habilidades
H1 - Capacidad para buscar, procesar, analizar y sintetizar información procedente de diversas fuentes.
H2 - Capacidad para el razonamiento, la argumentación y el pensamiento crítico.
CT3 - Capacidad para trabajar en grupo y abarcar situaciones problemáticas de manera colectiva.
H4 - Capacidad para elaborar y presentar un texto organizado y comprensible.
H5 - Capacidad para realizar una exposición en público de forma clara, concisa y coherente
H6 - Capacidad para reflejar adecuadamente las fuentes de información empleadas.
H7 - Capacidad para resolver problemas mediante la aplicación integrada de sus conocimientos, promoviendo la iniciativa y la creatividad
H8 - Capacidad para organizar y planificar el trabajo.
H9 - Capacidad para interpretar resultados experimentales
Competencias
Comp1 - Comprender e integrar el funcionamiento y regulación de los principales procesos fisiológicos de los seres vivos así como su interacción con el ambiente biótico y abiótico.
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)
Interactivas hasta 3 puntos. Exámenes (presencial y/o virtual)
Expositivas: hasta 7 puntos. Examen presencial
TOTAL: 3+7
El examen de expositivas consta de 3 partes, cuya calificación se sumará. La nota mínima necesaria para que se puedan sumar es de 4 sobre 10.
Todos los alumnos de cualquiera de los dos grupos y repetidores serán evaluados de la misma manera y en las dos oportunidades (enero y julio).
Evaluación de las competencias:
Evaluación de las competencias
Examen: H1, H2, H9, Comp1
Prácticas: H3, H4
Seminarios: H5, H6, H7
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.
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
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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 |
| Thursday | |||
| 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 |
| Friday | |||
| 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 |
| 05.20.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 01. Charles Darwin |
| 05.20.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 02. Gregor Mendel |
| 05.20.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| 07.01.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 01. Charles Darwin |
| 07.01.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 02. Gregor Mendel |