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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

BIO 515 Microbial Ecology


Interactions among microbes (fungi, bacteria, some phages), other living organisms and the environment, with emphases on parasitism, mutualism, commensalism and bio-geochemical recycling of matter. Includes both laboratory and field exercises.

Often cross-listed with BIO 415 

Credit 4 hrs
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall (in-person)

Prerequisites -
Restriction by Major - BIOG , EEOB , or MCBI 
Restriction by Degree Type - Graduate standing

Equivalent Course(s) - BIO 415, MICR 442
Course History -
Course Rotation updated 9/2018; Change to credit hour and major restriction 1/2018, effective Fall 2018; Course Rotation updated 1/2018; Course Rotation added 8/2014; New Course 1/2013, effective Summer 2013


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