Microbial Population Biology

Open access blog network of courses focused on the population biology of bacteria and viruses

Glossary

Evolution

Systematics

Homology: similarity owing to the sharing of a common ancestor

Natural selection

Periodic selection: the purging of genetic diversity within a population by the selective sweep of a beneficial mutant

Bacteria

Koch’s Postulates

Pathogen

Symbiont

Endosymbiont

Ecological Niche

Community Ecology

Behavioral Ecology

Genetic drift

Founder effect

Population bottleneck

Competitive exclusion principle

Gene-centric view of evolution

Evolution of sex

Red Queen theory

Game theory

Species

Phenotypic plasticity

Molecular phylogeny

Phylogenetic tree

Comparative phylogenetics

Bioinformatics

Cladistics

Metagenomics

MLST

Migration

Mutation

Mutationism

Horizontal gene transfer

Fitness landscape

Pleiotropy

Epistasis

Linkage

Modularity

Canalization

Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem

Neutral theory of evolution

Kin Selection

Inclusive fitness

Genetic hitchhiking

Müller’s ratchet

Founder effect

Charles Darwin

Russell Wallace

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

R.A. Fisher

Sewall Wright

J.B.S. Haldane

John Maynard Smith

W.D. Hamilton

Richard Lenski

Thomas Malthus

Richard Dawkins

Theodosius Dobzhansky

E.O.Wilson

Bootstrapping

Resampling

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