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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 Exploration of microbial ecology and diversity in hotspots |
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1.2 Meaning of biodiversity, threats associated and need for its protection |
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1.3 Biodiversity hotspots: a brief overview |
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1.4 Tools for systematically studying the biodiversity hotspots through various aspects |
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1.5 Biodiversity hotspots and microbial ecology |
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1.6 Microbial hotspots: an overview |
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1.7 Microbial ecology: microbial habitats and the distribution of microbes |
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1.8 Microbial diversity indices: application in studying community ecology |
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1.9 Microbial composition and succession |
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1.10 Microbial interactions |
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1.11 Hotspots bioindicators/indicating unique environment of hotspots |
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1.12 Conclusion and way forward |
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2 Habitat-specific microbial community associated with the biodiversity hotspot |
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2.2 Biodiversity hotspot in the Indian continent |
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2.3 Factors affecting biodiversity hotspots in India |
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2.5 The Indo-Burma region |
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27 | (1) |
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2.8 Approach to safeguard biodiversity hotspots in India |
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2.9 Habitat-specific microbes of hotspot region |
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2.10 Factors responsible for the diversity of habitat-specific microbial community in the Western Ghats |
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2.11 Habitat-specific microbes |
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2.12 The utility of microbial diversity |
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2.13 Importance of habitat-specific microorganisms in agriculture |
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2.14 Techniques used for assessing microbial diversity |
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3 Microbial diversity and ecology of saline environments from India |
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3.2 Microbial diversity of saline lakes of India |
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3.3 Microbial diversity of Indian deserts |
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3.4 Microbial diversity of Indian solar salterns and halite deposits |
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3.5 Conclusion and future outlook |
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4 Marine microbial hotspots---especially related to corals |
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4.2 Symbiosis within the coral holobionts |
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4.3 Microhabitats of the coral microbiome |
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4.4 Profiling of coral-associated microbial diversity |
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4.5 Importance of coral microbiome for marine ecosystem |
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4.6 Conclusion and future perspectives |
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5 Phyllosphere microbiomes: implications and ecofunctional diversity |
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5.2 Leaf surface and microbial growth |
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5.3 Phyllosphere microbiome: nature and composition |
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5.4 Bacterial diversity in the phyllosphere |
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5.5 Fungal microbiota of phyllosphere |
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5.6 Actinomycetes diversity in phyllosphere |
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5.7 Microbial interaction and phyllosphere |
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5.8 Omics approaches and future prospective |
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6 Fungal association in hotspot of rhizosphere |
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6.2 Fungal association in rhizosphere |
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6.3 Outcomes of fungal rhizosphere association |
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6.4 Application of fungal rhizosphere association |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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7 Diversity of actinomycetes in Western Ghats |
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7.3 Habitat of actinomycetes |
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7.4 Growth of actinomycetes on different media |
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7.5 Diversity in enzyme production by actinomycetes isolated from the Western Ghats |
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7.6 Antimicrobial diversity of actinomycetes isolated from the Western Ghats |
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7.7 Biotechnological applications of actinomycetes from the Western Ghats |
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8 Microbial diversity at the polluted sites |
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8.6 Mechanisms involved in bioremediation |
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148 | (7) |
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9 Microbial diversity in termite gut ecosystem and their role in lignocellulosic degradation |
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155 | (1) |
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9.3 Lignocellulose and their degradation in termites |
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161 | (2) |
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9.4 Metagenomic approaches in termites for detecting glycosyl hydrolase genes for lignocellulosic degradation |
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9.5 Future perspectives of termites/their gut microbes in lignocellulosic degradation |
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169 | (1) |
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10 Bacterial diversity from Garampani warm spring, Assam |
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177 | (1) |
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11 Diversity and biotechnological importance of cellulolytic microorganisms from biodiversity hotspots |
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11.1 Lignocellulose: composition and availability |
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11.2 Lignocellulolytic enzyme system |
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11.3 Applications of ligninolytic enzymes |
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11.4 Applications of cellulolytic and xylanase enzymes |
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212 | (1) |
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11.5 Diversity of culturable cellulolytic microbes |
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11.6 Metagenomic diversity of cellulolytic microbes |
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219 | (2) |
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11.7 Metaproteomic analysis of cellulolytic microbes |
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221 | (1) |
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11.8 Metatranscriptomic analysis of cellulolytic microbes |
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12 Biodiversity of cold-adapted extremophiles from Antarctica and their biotechnological potential |
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12.2 Biodiversity of extremophiles from Antarctica |
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12.3 Potential hotspots in Antarctica |
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12.4 Cold adaption mechanisms in psychrophiles |
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12.5 Biotechnological applications of psychrophiles from Antarctica |
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12.7 Pharmaceutical and medical applications |
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13 Isolation methods for evaluation of extremophilic microbial diversity from Antarctica region |
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13.2 Diversity of extremophilic organisms in Antarctic hotspot |
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268 | (3) |
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13.3 Isolation and identification methodology |
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14 Recent advances in microbial databases with special reference to kinetoplastids |
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14.2 Classification of biological databases |
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14.3 Global resources/comprehensive databases |
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14.4 Community/specialized databases |
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15 Advances in sequencing technology, databases, and analyses tools for the assessment of microbial diversity |
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15.2 Advances in sequencing technology |
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319 | (6) |
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15.3 Development of databases |
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325 | (3) |
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15.4 Advancements in analyses tools |
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15.5 How to study microbial diversity? |
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16 Legabprotection of microbial biodiversity |
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16.2 Biodiversity Hotspots: Introduction |
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350 | (1) |
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16.3 Protection of microbial diversity in hotspot regions |
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16.4 Existing framework for the research and exploration of microbiome |
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16.5 Patents and microorganisms |
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16.6 Microbial access and research: pipeline |
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