Marine Microorganisms and Their Biomolecules: Biodiversity, Physiological Adaptation and Biotechnological Applications
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 September 2024 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial ecology in extremely hot environments; applied and environmental microbiology; adaptation strategies and resistance of extremophilic bacilli; environmental biotechnologies; marine biotechnologies; astrobiology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: microbial ecology in extremely cold environments; microbial communities composition; microbial response to anthropogenic and natural pollutants; eDNA metagenome and target analyses
Interests: physiological adaptation; cell physiology; evaluation of cellular response to new biocompounds and biomaterials; biotechnology and bioengineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We encourage you to submit our manuscript to this Special Issue on “Marine Microorganisms and Their Biomolecules: Biodiversity, Physiological Adaptation and Biotechnological Applications” in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. Marine microorganisms, including archaea, bacteria, fungi, and microalgae, have developed various strategies and physiological adaptation to diverse environments characterized by fluctuating temperatures, salinity, pH, and nutrients. One such strategy is the ability to biosynthesize many different molecules belonging to both primary and secondary metabolites with unique chemical structures. These molecules, which have attracted significant attention, can be used in improve environmental health as sorbent materials, dispersants, and antitoxic substances and human health as antioxidants, immunostimulants, antimicrobials, and antivirals.
Natural active products of microbial origin, especially those originating from almost unexplored marine environments, have attracted and continue to interest numerous fields of application from pharmaceuticals to environmental bioremediation. Furthermore, this has been revitalized by recent technological and scientific advances in genomic approaches and synthetic microbiology. This Special Issue invites experimental studies, reviews, and distributional investigations on any aspect of microbial diversity related to ecology, molecular biology, physiology, and biotechnology, as well as eukaryotes and prokaryotes in the marine environment.
Thank you for your consideration.
Dr. Vincenzo Zammuto
Dr. Maria Papale
Dr. Maria Giovanna Rizzo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- marine microbes
- biodiversity
- physiological adaptation
- biomolecules
- ecology
