Bacterial Diversity

Course content

Explores the metabolic diversification of bacteria and phylogenetic relations. Molecular methods used in systematics of bacteria, major bacterial groups such as proteobacteria (α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ) , Actinobacteria, cyanobacteria, Flavobacteria, Cytophaga, Green sulfur and nonsulfur bacteria, hyperthermophilic bacteria, Deinococci, Nitrospira and so on. Prerequisite: BIO 303 OR BIO 313 OR FDE 311