Systems Biology of Marine Ecosystems

✍ Scribed by Manoj Kumar, Peter Ralph (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes the latest advances in systems biology in four plant-based marine ecosystems: seaweeds, seagrasses, microalgae, and corals. Marine organisms that inhabit the oceanic environment experience a diverse range of environmental fluctuations, anthropogenic stress, and threats from invasive species and pathogens. System biology integrates physiology, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics into numerical models and is emerging as an important approach to elucidate the functional adaptations of marine organisms to adverse environmental conditions. This book focuses on how ecophysiology, omics platforms, their integration (a systems biology perspective), and next generation sequencing tools are being used to address the stress response of marine seaweeds, seagrasses, corals, marine microbe diversity, and micro-and macroalgae/corals-bacterial interactions to global climate change and anthropogenic activities. The contents of the book are of special interest to graduate and postgraduate marine biology students and marine biology researchers, particularly those interested in marine ecology, stress physiology of marine macrophytes/corals/phytoplankton, and environmental microbiology. This book would also be of interest to marine engineers engaged in the management and conservation of our valuable marine resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Macroalgal Functional Genomics: A Missing Area (Vishal Gupta, Mukesh Jain, C. R. K. Reddy)....Pages 3-12
Tolerance Pathways to Desiccation Stress in Seaweeds (Loretto Contreras-Porcia, Camilo López-Cristoffanini, Andrés Meynard, Manoj Kumar)....Pages 13-33
Marine Metal Pollution and Effects on Seaweed Species (Loretto Contreras-Porcia, Andrés Meynard, Camilo López-Cristoffanini, Nicolas Latorre, Manoj Kumar)....Pages 35-48
Seaweed Lipidomics in the Era of ‘Omics’ Biology: A Contemporary Perspective (Puja Kumari)....Pages 49-97
Volatiles in the Aquatic Marine Ecosystem: Ethylene and Related Plant Hormones and Sporulation in Red Seaweeds (P. Garcia-Jimenez, R. R. Robaina)....Pages 99-116
Front Matter ....Pages 117-117
Abiotic Stress of Seagrasses: Recent Advances in Transcriptomics, Genomics, and Systems Biology (E. E. Malandrakis, T. Danis, A. Iona, A. Exadactylos)....Pages 119-132
Photobiology of Seagrasses: A Systems Biology Perspective (Pimchanok Buapet)....Pages 133-165
Systems Biology and the Seagrass Paradox: Adaptation, Acclimation, and Survival of Marine Angiosperms in a Changing Ocean Climate (Richard C. Zimmerman)....Pages 167-188
Gas and Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolic Profiling of Marine Angiosperm Zostera muelleri (Alismatales, Zosteraceae) (Unnikrishnan Kuzhiumparambil, Manoj Kumar, Peter Ralph)....Pages 189-203
Front Matter ....Pages 205-205
Marine Microalgae: Systems Biology from ‘Omics’ (Justin Ashworth)....Pages 207-221
Application of ‘Omics’ Approaches to Microbial Oceanography (Deepa R. Varkey, Martina A. Doblin)....Pages 223-233
Effects of Ocean Acidification and UV Radiation on Marine Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation (Kunshan Gao, Donat-P. Häder)....Pages 235-250
Oxidative Stress-Induced Bioprospecting of Microalgae (Kaumeel Chokshi, Imran Pancha, Arup Ghosh, Sandhya Mishra)....Pages 251-276
Front Matter ....Pages 277-277
Bioactive Small Molecules Mediate Microalgal-Bacterial Interactions (Leen Labeeuw, Anna R. Bramucci, Rebecca J. Case)....Pages 279-300
Exploring the Complexity of Macroalgal-Bacterial Interactions Through Interkingdom Signalling System (Ravindra Pal Singh, Ramesh Kothari, Suhelen Egan)....Pages 301-315
Role of Bacteria in Coral Ecosystem (Neha P. Patel, Sweta B. Kumar, S. Haldar)....Pages 317-341
Back Matter ....Pages 343-351

✦ Subjects

Freshwater & Marine Ecology