An appreciation of the potential applications of molecular biology is of growing importance in many areas of life sciences, including marine biology. During the past two decades, the development of sophisticated molecular technologies and instruments for biomedical research has resulted in significant advances in the biological sciences. However, the value of molecular techniques for addressing...

Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 2 Research Group for Marine Geochemistry (ICBM-MPI Bridging Group), Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, A...

Ocean occupies 70 % of the earth’s land mass. Forty percent of the world inhabitants are living along the coastline of the oceans. Marine ecosystems provide more potential biodiversity for novel products and services than any other ecosystem in the world. Marine lives ranging from bacteria to higher forms of lives are sources of micro and macro molecules required for advancement of biotechnolog...

1 Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (CEME), The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Korringaweg 7, 4401 NT Yerseke, The Netherlands 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr. 1, Bremen, 28359, Germany 3 Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4320, USA * now at: CSIRO Land and Water, 120 Meiers Rd Indooroopilly, 4075, Qld, Aus...

Tracing the slowgrowth ofanaerobicmethane-oxidizing communities byN-labelling techniques Martin Krüger, Heike Wolters, Matthias Gehre, Samantha B. Joye & Hans-Hermann Richnow Geomicrobiology, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany; Max Planck Institute for marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Ge...

Major discoveries in marine microbiology over the past 4-5 decades have resulted in the recognition of bacteria as a major biomass component of marine food webs. Such discoveries include chemosynthetic activities in deep-ocean ecosystems, survival processes in oligotrophic waters, and the role of microorganisms in food webs coupled with symbiotic relationships and energy flow. Many discoveries ...

1 Department of Marine Microbiology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology – KNAW, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, The Netherlands 2 Marine Biological Laboratory, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark 3 Department of Environmental Biotechnology, TU Delft, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands * now at: Department of Environmental Biotechn...

Corresponding author † 14 Short title: Mutations enhancing the thermostability and activity of PHA synthase 15 Department of Marine Biotechnology, National Kaohsiung Marine University 16 Department of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University 17 Mailing address: Department of Marine Biotechnology, National Kaohsiung Marine 18 University, No.142, Hai-Chuan Rd., Nan-Tzu Dist. Kaohsiun...

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...