Marine Fungi

and Fungal-like Organisms
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-026398-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: Marine and Freshwater Botany

Marine fungi play a major role in marine and mangrove ecosystems. Understanding how higher fungi with their spectrum of cellulolytic and ligninolytic enzymes degrade wood tissue, while labyrinthuloids and thraustochytrids further contribute to the dissolved organic matter entering the open ocean is essential to marine ecology. This work provides an overview of marine fungi including morphology and ultrastructure, phylogeny, biogeography and biodiversity. Increasingly, biotechnology is also turning to these organisms to develop new bioactive compounds and to address problems such as decomposition of materials in the ocean and bioremediation of oil spills. These potential applications of marine fungi are also treated. In the light of massive marine oil spills in the past years, the importance of understanding marine fungi and their role in the food chain cannot be underestimated.

Zielgruppe

Researchers in marine botany, marine biology, microbiology, biotechnology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pang, Ka-Lai

Jones, E. B. Gareth

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Mykologie, Pilze

Über Autor(innen)

E. B. Gareth Jones, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Pathum Thani, Thailand; Ka-Lai Pang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan (R.O.C.).