1. Editorial

   • Alan Bull
   • Michael Goodfellow

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 1

2. Estimating and comparing the diversity of marine actinobacteria

   • E.M. Stach
   • Alan T. Bull

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 9

3. Diversity of cultivable actinobacteria in geographically widespread marine sediments

   • Luis A. Maldonado
   • James E.M. Stach
   • Michael Goodfellow

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 18

4. Actinophages as indicators of actinomycete taxa in marine environments

   • D. Ipek Kurtböke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 28

5. Novel actinobacteria from marine sponges

   • Naomi F. Montalvo
   • Naglaa M. Mohamed
   • Russell T. Hill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 36

6. Marine actinomycetes as a source of novel secondary metabolites

   • Hans-Peter Fiedler
   • Christina Bruntner
   • Gerhard Mihm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 42

7. Marine actinomycete diversity and natural product discovery

   • Paul R. Jensen
   • Tracy J. Mincer
   • William Fenical

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 48

8. Exploiting marine actinomycete biosynthetic pathways for drug discovery

   • Bradley S. Moore
   • John A. Kalaitzis
   • Longkuan Xiang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 57

9. Enzyme inhibitors and other bioactive compounds from marine actinomycetes

   • Chiaki Imada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 63

10. Marine actinobacteria: perspectives, challenges, future directions

    • Alan T Bull
    • James E.M Stach
    • Michael Goodfellow

    OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 79