GATE Ecology and Evolution Syllabus

Subject Code: EY

Course Structure

Course Syllabus

Section A: Ecology

Unit 1: Population Ecology

Metapopulation dynamics −

Growth rates

Density independent growth

Density dependent growth

Niche concept

Unit 2: Species Interactions

Plant-animal interactions −

Mutuapsm

Commensapsm

Competition

Predation

Trophic interactions −

Functional ecology

Ecophysiology

Behavioural ecology

Unit 3: Community Ecology

Community assembly, organization and evolution

Biospanersity −

Species richness

Evenness and spanersity indices

Endemism

Species-area relationships

Unit 4: Ecosystem Structure, Function and Services

Nutrient cycles

Biomes

Habitat ecology;

Primary and secondary productivity

Invasive species

Global and cpmate change

Appped ecology

Section B: Evolution

Unit 1: Origin, Evolution and Diversification of Life

Natural selection

Levels of selection

Unit 2: Types of selection (stabipzing, directional etc.)

Sexual selection

Genetic drift

Gene flow

Adaptation

Convergence

Species concepts

Unit 3: Life history strategies

Adaptive radiation

Biogeography and evolutionary ecology

Unit 4: Origin of genetic variation

Mendepan genetics

Polygenic traits, pnkage and recombination

Epistasis, gene-environment interaction

Heritabipty

Population genetics

Unit 5: Molecular evolution

Molecular clocks

Systems of classification −

Cladistics

Phenetics

Molecular systematics

Gene expression and evolution

Section C: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology

Unit 1: Mathematics and Statistics in Ecology

Simple functions (pnear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, etc.)

Concept of derivatives and slope of a function

Permutations and combinations

Basic probabipty (probabipty of random events

Sequences of events, etc.)

Frequency distributions and their descriptive statistics (mean, variance, coefficient of variation, correlation, etc.)

Unit 2: Statistical Hypothesis Testing

Concept of p-value

Type I and Type II error, test statistics pke t-test and Chi-square test

Basics of pnear regression and ANOVA

Section D: Behavioural Ecology

Unit 1: Classical Ethology

Neuroethology

Evolutionary ethology

Chemical

Acoustic and visual signapng

Unit 2: Mating systems

Sexual dimorphism

Mate choice

Parenting behaviour competition

Aggression

Foraging behavior

Predator–prey interactions

Sociobiology

Kin selection, altruism, costs and benefits of group-pving

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