Mic Diversity & Bacterial Phylogeny

SEMESTER – V

DSE – 1A

APMB 352 MICROBIAL DIVERSITY AND BACTERIAL PHYLOGENY (4 credits)

Unit -I

Microbial Big Tree of Life – The domain Archaea – Bacteria –Eukaryotes – Eukaryotic tree of life – Endosymbiosis theory and the role of horizontal gene transfer in shaping of domains – Different types of microbial diversity – Importance of microbial diversity – Methods of examining microbial diversity.

Unit-II

Eukaryotic diversity and Bacterial phylogeny – Fungal diversity – Protist (algae and protozoa) diversity – Viral diversity – their importance and role in shaping human community. History of bacterial classification – Concept of bacterial phylogeny – Phylogenetic markers – Polyphasic taxonomy – Overall view of bacterial phyla – Bergeys Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (2^nd Edn.).

Unit-III

Archaea and Gram negatives:– An overview of their ecological occurrence, morphological diversity, structural, metabolic and genetic diversity, their importance and classification of Archaeal phyla – Gram negative bacteria including cyanobacteria – Deeply branching phyla – Proteobacteria – their classes.

Unit-IV

Gram Positives and heterogeneous members: Overall view of – ecological occurrence, morphological diversity, structural, metabolic and genetic diversity, their importance and classification of phyla Firmicutes – Actinobacteria – Bacteroidetes – Spirochetes – Tenericutes (Mollicutes) – Acidobacteria – Planctomycetes – Verrucomicrobia – Chlamydia.

Unit-V

Uncultivated majorities: The Great Plate count anomaly – novel bacterial cultivation strategies – cultivation independent methods of assessing bacterial diversity – Candidatus status of the bacteria – Candidate phyla radiation – their importance.

Text Books

1. Brown J.W. (2015) Principles of Microbial Diversity, ASM Press.

2. Madigan M.T., Bender K.S., Buckley D.H., Sattley W.M. and Stahl D.A. (2017) Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 15^th Edn. (Global Edn.) Pearson Education.

Reference Books

1. Epstein S.S. (2009) Uncultivated microorganisms, Springer-Verlag Publishers.

2. Rosenberg E., DeLong E., Lory S., Stackebrandt E. and Thompson F. (Ed.) (2013) The Prokaryotes (Total of eleven reference book series), Springer- Verlag publishers.

3. Bertrand J.C., Caumette P., Lebaron P., Matheron R., Normand P. and Sime-Ngando T. (Eds.) (2015) Environmental Microbiology: Fundamentals and Applications, Springer Publishers.

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