Molecular Ecology of Microalgae and Cyanobacteria
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 1043
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental microbiology; polar ecology; microbial cell biology; cyanobacteria; micro algae
Interests: microalgae; biocrusts; ecology; biodiversity; ecophysiology
Interests: microbial ecology; environmental microbiology; microbial diversity; soil; ecology; microbiology; molecular biology; community structure; biodiversity; climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular omics methods are dramatically changing the field of ecology, allowing research questions and hypotheses to be tested in situ that would have been impossible to answer just a few years ago. Some often overlooked components of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats are microalgae and cyanobacteria, found almost everywhere on Earth, from nearly all marine and freshwater habitats to cold polar deserts and tropical rainforests. Their lifestyles can also vary dramatically, from free-living forms, epiphytic forms growing on trees, symbiotic forms living inside other organisms to endolithic forms. They are important primary producers and nitrogen fixers in many ecosystems. Even today, we know little about these organisms' diversity (intra- and interspecific) and how they survive the sometimes extreme conditions of their specific habitat. This Special Issue aims to bring together scientists using modern omics approaches to understand the ecology/biology of these amazing organisms.
Dr. Burkhard Becker
Prof. Dr. Karin Glaser
Dr. Ekaterina Pushkareva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microalgae
- cyanobacteria
- molecular omics
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