Overview
- Describes the ‘marine microbiome’ and its uses in biotechnology
- Reviews marine microbial diversity and their habitats
- The only scientific book publication on the marine microbiome
Part of the book series: The Microbiomes of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment (MHAPE, volume 3)
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About this book
This updated and expanded second edition reviews numerous aspects of the marine microbiome and its possible industrial applications. The marine microbiome is the total of microorganisms and viruses in the ocean and seas and in any connected environment, including the seafloor and marine animals and plants.
In the first part of the book, diversity, origin and evolution of the marine microorganisms and viruses are discussed. The microbes presented originate from all three domains of life: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. The second part sheds some light on the different communities: it describes marine habitats and how their inhabitants control biogeochemical cycles. The third part finally examines the microbial ocean as a global system and evaluates methods of utilizing marine microbial resources.
Adopting a translational approach, the book connects academic research with industrial applications, making it a fascinating read and valuable resource for microbiologists from both domains.
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Keywords
- Blue biotechnology
- Marine habitats
- Marine microbes
- Marine resources
- Metagenomics
- Microbial diversity
- Microbial ecology
- Marine microorganisms
- Marine Bacteria
- Marine Archaea
- Phototrophic microorganisms
- Marne fungi
- Marine viruses
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Extreme marine environments
- Deep sea
- Marine pelagic environments
- Microbial networks
- Marine bioactives
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Diversity and Evolution of Marine Microorganisms
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Marine Habitats
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Marine Microbiome from Genomes to Phenomes: Biogeochemical Cycles, Networks, Fluxes, and Interaction
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Dr. Lucas J. Stal is a marine microbiologist and retired in 2018 as a professor of the University of Amsterdam and senior scientist of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. He is known for his research on marine cyanobacteria and nitrogen fixation. He investigated cyanobacterial blooms as well as marine microbial mats and intertidal diatom communities.
Dr. Mariana Silvia Cretoiu received her education in medical microbiology and microbial ecology at the University of Bucharest (Romania) and specialized in (marine) molecular microbial systems ecology and bioinformatics. She received her PhD from University of Groningen (The Netherlands) searching for novel bacterial chitinases using metagenomics. After, she continued to work on the composition and functionality of freshwater and marine microbiomes and their associated viruses. She is currently working in the private sector applying microbiomes for commercial purposes and is affiliated to the Universityof Utrecht (The Netherlands).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Marine Microbiome
Editors: Lucas J. Stal, Mariana Silvia Cretoiu
Series Title: The Microbiomes of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90383-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90382-4Published: 02 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90385-5Published: 03 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90383-1Published: 28 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-611X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6128
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 766
Number of Illustrations: 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Biochemical Engineering