Microbial Ecology

EEB
446

Course Discipline

Ecology

Course Level

400

Course Credits

3

Term(s) Offered

Winter

Course Description

This course covers the ecology of microbes by highlighting their interactions with each other and the environment.  An emphasis is placed on Bacteria, Archaea, and their viruses.  The course aims at uncovering how concepts developed in plant and animal ecology do and do not translate to the microbial world.

Eligible for Microbiology Certificate Program

Yes