Omics Research in Microbial Ecology

Dear Colleagues,

Omics technologies such as genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, among others, have revolutionized microbial ecology as a scientific discipline. These omics technologies provide new and deep insights into the structure and functioning of microbial communities, net interactions between microorganisms of different taxa, and a complex symbiotic relationship between different members of natural and host-associated communities. Due to the development of metagenomics and metatranscriptomics over the last decade, a microbiome as a set of autochthonous and allochthonous microbes has been revealed in phylogenetically distant organisms ranging from protists to animals and land plants. Omics technologies are currently the most popular tools in different branches of microbial ecology, as they are used in various applications from the fundamental hypothesis of the emergence of multi-cellular organisms to practically oriented studies in medicine, animal husbandry, and crop production.

Thus, this Special Issue welcomes research and review articles devoted to new findings in different fields of microbial ecology obtained using modern omics technologies, including, but not restricted to, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, etc. All kinds of microorganisms might be an object of such studies including viruses, prokaryotes, fungi, algae, and protists. The most in demand are articles describing new results from cutting-edge research on microbial communities and microbiomes in newly studied organisms (from protists to plants and animals), common and rare ecosystems, and healthy and sick humans and animals. We are also soliciting methodological papers devoted to benefits and limitations of omics technologies in microbial ecology, especially multi-omics approaches.

Dr. Andrey Plotnikov
Dr. Natalia Gogoleva
Guest Editors

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