1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	10
Seminar	5

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Definitions of symbiosis. Forms of symbiosis. Role of symbiosis in speciation. Importance of symbiosis in biodiversity. Models of symbiosis. Mechanisms of symbiosis. Endosymbiosis. Principles and possibilites of symbiosis. Evolutionary reversal. Molecular phylogeny of endosymbionts and hosts. It is scheduled that one lecture would be given by an endosymbiosis expert-guest lecturer.

1. Intracellular Niches of Microbes-A Patogens Guide through the Host Cell, Schaible, U. E., Haas, A.. (ur.), Wiley-VHC Verla, 2009.
2. Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origin of Species, Margulis L, Sagan D, Basic Books, New York Books, New York, 2002.
3. Symbiotic Interactions, Douglas AE, Oxford University Press Inc, Oxford and New York, 1994.
4. Biology of hydra, Burnett AL (ed), Academic Press, New York and London, 1973.

Ekologija - Izborni kolegiji - Regular study - Biology