Chordates

Anatomical Terms of Location - Article from Wikipedia describing the complex terminology necessary to be used when describing the anatomy of animals in order to avoid confusion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location

Animal Cells and Tissues: Organization of the Animal Body - Notes by Michael J. Farabee on the structure and functions of each of the four major animal tissue types: epithelial, muscle, connective and bone.
www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookAnimalTS.html

Animal Diversity - Gives the key anatomical characteristics of members of Phylum Hemichordata, Phylum Chordata and its Subphyla Urochordata, Cephalochordata and Vertebrata. Illustrated by slides.
www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/science/biological_sciences/lab13/biolab13_3.html#Hemichordata

Animal Organ Systems and Homeostasis - Homeostasis describes the physical and chemical parameters that an organism must maintain to allow proper functioning of its component cells, tissues and organs.
www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookANIMORGSYS.html

The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy - Details of this year’s meeting of SVPCA and abstracts from presentations made in previous years.
www.svpca.org/

Biological Diversity: Animals - Outlines the evolutionary history of animal groups from the simple coelomates to the chordates and the various vertebrate classes, with diagrams and photographs.
www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_9.html

Bone - Article from Wikipedia describing the characteristics, functions and types of bone and how bone is formed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone

Breathing in Stegocephalians - Most tetrapods breathe with the lungs that they inherited from their ancestors such as the coelacanth and lungfishes and this is probably also true of extinct groups of stegocephalians.
tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=469

Chordata - Biomedia Zoology Museum - An introduction to the taxonomy of the phylum Chordata with explanations of the technical terms used.
www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/biomedia/text/txt_chord.htm

Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates - Educational and research resource with sections on ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology and mammalogy.
cumv.bio.cornell.edu/

Department of Vertebrate Zoology - Information on the research and programs being undertaken at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
vertebrates.si.edu/

The Evolution of Left-Right Asymmetry in Chordates - Article by Clive Boorman and Sebastian Shimeld discussing directional asymmetric morphology in which sidedness is fixed for a population, species or higher taxon.
users.ox.ac.uk/~zool0615/My%20PDFs/BioEssays%20asymmetry%20review.pdf

Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net - Provides an index to animal sounds on the Web including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects.
members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html

Hearing in Stegocephalians - In this article, Michael Laurin outlines the anatomy and evolution of the outer, middle and inner ear in land vertebrates.
tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=470

Infrared Zoo - Uses infrared photography to show the differences between warm and cold blooded animals.
coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/index.html

The Integument - Notes on the functions and anatomy of skin and its evolution.
www.usm.maine.edu/bio/courses/bio205/08_integument.html

The Integument and its Derivatives - These notes cover the dermis and epidermis including skin, beaks, nails, hooves, horns, hair, feathers, scales and teeth.
www.zoology.ubc.ca/courses/bio204/lab5_frameset.htm

Invertebrate Members of the Phylum Chordata - Outlines the differences between the subphylum Vertebrata and the two subphyla, Urochordata and Cephalochordata.
www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=24.25.312.314

Life History of Stegocephalians - Michael Laurin outlines the life history of tetrapods and extinct terrestrial vertebrates.
tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=468

Molecular Patterns of Sex Determination in the Animal Kingdom: a Comparative Study of the Biology of Reproduction - Abstract from an article studying a variety of regulatory mechanisms that determine the sex of offspring in the animal kingdom.
www.rbej.com/content/4/1/59

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology - Provides specimen data and archival materials from the collections of the University of California, Berkeley.
mvz.berkeley.edu/

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Collections - Searchable database of specimens that includes over 50,000 tissue samples for use in molecular analyses.
www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/collections/

Online Biology Book: Glossary - Comprehensive list of the technical terms you are likely to come across, with cross references.
www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookgloss.html

Other Animal Sounds - Clips recorded by Doug Von Gausig of the sounds made by various amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds.
www.naturesongs.com/otheranimals.html

Phylogeny of Stegocephalians - Stegocephalians are tetrapods with digits rather than fins. Michael Laurin explores the relationship between the extant and the extinct members of this group.
tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=467

Respiratory System - Notes on external and internal respiration, ventilation, aquatic and aerial gas exchange in all classes of vertebrate.
www.uta.edu/biology/2458lab/Exercise%2036%20%20Anatomy%20of%20the%20Respiratory%20System.pdf

Sensory Systems in Amphioxus: A Window on the Ancestral Chordate Condition - Abstract from a paper comparing the sensory systems of vertebrates with the less-developed systems of Amphioxus.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15353907?dopt=Abstract

Skulls: Structure and Function - Though primarily designed to protect the brain, the architecture of an animal’s skull can help scientists to deduce many of its dietary and social patterns.
www.calacademy.org/exhibits/skulls/structure_and_function.html

The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) - SEB membership is open to scientists world-wide and the Animal Section is a thriving community of enthusiastic scientists working across diverse scientific fields.
www.sebiology.org/

Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology - Devoted to the study of terrestrial vertebrates in the Pacific northwest. Offers publications and reference data.
www.snwvb.org/

Terrestrial Vertebrates - Describes the principle characteristics of tetrapods, which have well defined joints and digits, their classification and phylogenetic relationships.
tolweb.org/Terrestrial_Vertebrates/14952

Tissue Engineering - Describes research at the National University of Ireland, Galway into developing methods of constructing organs in the laboratory that can subsequently be used in medical applications.
www.nuigalway.ie/anatomy/tissue_engineering.html

Urochordata and Cephalochordata - Commonly called tunicates and lancelets, these marine creatures provide important clues in the study of vertebrates.
www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/l/clm278/index.html

Urochordata and Cephalochordata - Outlines the biology of the invertebrate members of the Chordata, the sea squirts, salps, Larvacea and Amphioxus.
www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/j/cjr199/

The Vertebrate: Glossary - Provides a comprehensive list of definitions of the technical terms likely to be met when studying the vertrebates.
www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Lists/Glossary/Glossary.html

Vertebrate Zoology - Lecture notes on the characteristics of the Phylum Chordata and the further characteristics of the classes of animals in the Subphylum Vertebrata.
www.ossm.edu/biology/vzln.htm

The Vertebrates - Notes on the classification structure of the Vertebrates with a cladogram to review the evolutionary relationships of the craniata.
users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vertebrates.html

Will's Skull Page - Features images and measurements of mammalian skulls as well as updates and related links.
www.skullsite.co.uk/