Diversity and Dynamics of Marine Microbial Communities
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2016) | Viewed by 35150
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine microbial diversity; marine biotechnology; marine natural products; phylogeny and taxonomy of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria; photosynthetic bacteria from extreme environments
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Dear Colleagues,
Powerful tools have been developed in recent years, not only to study the diversity of microbial communities in marine habitats, but also to follow up their dynamic changes using different genomic and genetic approaches. Although information is available on a few functional groups, such as sulfate reducers, nitrifyers, and methane oxidizers, others have received less attention and only a little information is available on their dynamic changes. The marine realm includes such different habitats as marine coastal waters and sediments, the surfaces of marine algae and animals, the deep sea (including deep subsurface habitats, hot vents and polar ice habitats), which all harbor specifically adapted microbial communities. Such studies may include marine fungi, actinobacteria, phototrophic bacteria or algae and a wide range of other groups of microorganisms. Also, studies on the functional microbial diversity of marine habitats and their dynamic changes, which apply metagenomic approaches on the basis of functional genes, are highly welcome for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Johannes F. Imhoff
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional genes
- dynamic changes
- functional genetic groups
- Metagenomic approaches
- marine environmental biodiversity
- adaptation of functional microbial groups
- diversity changes along environmental gradients
- impact of environmental changes on community composition and diversity of marine bacteria and archaea
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