Specificity of marine microbial surface interactions

marine microbial natural products

Marine microbial diversity

Microbes were the only form of life for the first 2-3 billion years of planetary and biological evolution. Life most likely began in the oceans and marine microorganisms are the closest living descendants of the original forms of life. Early marine microorganisms also helped create the conditions under which subsequent life developed. More than two billion years ago, the generation of oxygen by...

Marine Microbial Natural Products

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Microbial diversity of marine sponges.

The recent application of molecular microbial ecology tools to sponge-microbe associations has revealed a glimpse into the biodiversity of these microbial communities, that is considered just 'the tip of the iceberg'. This chapter provides an overview over these new findings with regard to identity, diversity and distribution patterns of sponge-associated microbial consortia. The sponges Aplysi...

Microbial Biosensor for Marine Environments

A biosensor is an analytical device which integrates a biological recognition element with a physical transducer to generate a measurable signal proportional to the concentration of the analyses. A microbial biosensor consists of a transducer in conjunction with immobilized viable or non-viable microbial cells. Non-viable cells obtained after Permeable or whole cells containing periplasmic enzy...