Bookeditors, Tulasi Satyanarayana, Bhavdish Narain Johri and Subrata Kumar Das.
Summary: This book discusses microbial diversity in various habitats and environments, its role in ecosystem maintenance, and its potential applications (e.g. biofertilizers, biocatalysts, antibiotics, other bioactive compounds, exopolysaccharides etc.). The respective chapters, all contributed by renowned experts, offer cutting-edge information in the fields of microbial ecology and biogeography. The book explains the reasons behind the occurrence of various biogeographies and highlights recent tools (e.g. metagenomics) that can aid in biogeography studies by providing information on nucleic acid sequence data, thereby directly identifying microorganisms in various habitats and environments. In turn, the book describes how human intervention results in depletion of biodiversity, and how numerous hotspots are now losing their endemic biodiversity, resulting in the loss of many ecologically important microorganisms. In closing, the book underscores the importance of microbial diversity for sustainable ecosystems.
Contents:
Volume 1. Microbial Diversity in Normal & Extreme Environments Section I: Introduction to microbial diversity 1. Emerging concepts in bacterial taxonomy by Ch. V. Ramana 2. Bioinformatics Tools for Microbial Diversity Analysis by M. Krishna Mohan 3. Application of genomics to understand the pathogenic microbial diversity by Subrata K. Das 4. Fungal Diversity; Global perspectives and Ecosystem Dynamics by B.N. Johri Section II: Microbes in normal and extreme environments 5. Marine microbial diversity for sustainable development by Anil Kumar 6. Diversity of microbes in hot springs and their sustainable use by Subrata K. Das 7. Thermophilic fungal diversity in sustainable development by Bijender Singh 8. Microbiome of the deep terrestrial subsurface by Pinaki Sar 9. Marine fungal diversity
the present status and future challenges by V.V. Sharma 10. Diversity of iron and sulphur oxidisers in sulphide mine leachates by S.R. Dave 11. Distribution and bio-prospecting potentials of actinobacteria from Indian mangrove ecosystems by Syed Dastager 12. Gut microbiome and its impact on human health by Syed Dastager 13. Cyanobacterial diversity and production of value-added proteases by S.N. Bagchi 14. Utility of microbial diversity in mitigating climate change by Anjana Sharma 15. Microbial diversity in waste treatment by I.S. Thakur 16. Cyanobacteria as future biofuel: Facts and Figments by Ashish K. Bhatnagar 17. Halocin diversity among halophilic archaea and their potential applications by Santosh Tiwari 18. Microbial Diversity and Dynamics in Hydrocarbon Resource Environments (HRE) by Akhil Agrawal 19. Mining human microbiome for therapeutics by Yogesh Souche 20. Microbiome as source of novel bioactive compounds by Rakesh Sharma 21. Conclusions 22. Subject index.