Note: Front Cover -- Functional Metagenomics -- Functional Metagenomics: Microbial Diversity, Interaction, and Application in Bioremediation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 - Overcoming industrial challenges in microbial bioremediation: Leveraging modern technologies and sustainable pr ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bioremediation processes -- 3. Advantages of bioremediation -- 4. Factors affecting the bioremediation process -- 5. Challenges in the bioremediation process -- 6. Addressing the challenges using modern technologies -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- 2 - Metagenomics: A new horizon for bioremediation in 21st century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental systems biology -- 3. Metagenomics -- 4. Metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics -- 5. Techniques to study metagenomics -- 5.1 Culture-dependent enrichment -- 6. Community profiling -- 7. Identifying genes and genomes mediating biodegradations -- 8. Industrial enzyme discovery using microbial metagenomics -- 9. Applications of metagenomics in bioremediation -- 10. Metagenomic bioremediation of different contaminations -- 11. Microbial metagenomics in agriculture -- 12. Environmental monitoring and bioremediation using microbial metagenomics -- 13. Recent advancements in technologies associated with metagenomics -- 14. Conclusions -- References -- 3 - Application of metagenomics in the field of biotechnological conversion of lignocellulosic residues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lignocellulosic biomass -- 2.1 Composition -- 2.2 Biotechnological potential of lignocellulosic residues -- 2.3 Microbial diversity in lignocellulosic residues -- 3. Metagenomic approach -- 3.1 Pretreatment of environmental samples -- 3.2 DNA extraction -- 3.3 Construction of metagenomic library -- 3.3.1 Vector selection -- 3.3.2 Host selection -- 3.4 Metagenomic library screening. , 3.4.1 Functional-based screening -- 3.4.2 Compound configuration screening -- 3.4.3 DNA sequence-based screening -- 4. Industrial property on new technologies involving metagenomic approaches -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 4 - Metagenomics to unravel the microbial biodiversity and biotechnological potential of extreme high salinity envi ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extreme environments and extremophiles -- 2.1 Extremophile (micro)organisms -- 3. Culture-independent approaches in the metagenomics era -- 3.1 Sequence-based metagenomics -- 3.2 Function-based metagenomics -- 3.3 Some challenges of metagenomics -- 4. Metagenomics as a tool to mine the biodiversity and biotechnological potential of extremophile communities -- 4.1 Novel extremophiles -- 4.2 New bioactive molecules -- 4.3 Novel genes -- 5. Metagenomics in hypersaline environments -- 5.1 High salinity environments -- 5.2 Metagenomics and biodiversity in high salinity environments -- 5.2.1 Novel phylogenetic groups -- 5.2.2 Novel taxa -- 5.2.3 Insight into halophilic viruses -- 5.3 Bioactive molecules of high salinity environments unveiled by metagenomics -- 5.3.1 Enzymes -- 5.3.2 Antimicrobial compounds -- 5.3.3 Biosurfactants -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- 5 - Analysis of complex microbial communities in soil and wastewater treatment processes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Soil treatment with microbes -- 2.1 Microbial degradation of toxins in soil -- 2.2 Genetically modified bacteria for treatment of soil -- 2.3 Bioventing -- 2.4 Biosparging -- 2.5 Biostimulation -- 2.6 Bioaugmentation -- 3. Microbes in wastewater treatment -- 3.1 Wastewater microbial diversity -- 3.2 Bioremediation -- 3.3 Biofilm technology -- 3.4 Microbial fuel cell technology -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 6 - Response of microbial communities to environmental changes -- 1. Introduction. , 2. Role of microbes in biogeochemicial cycle -- 2.1 Microbes in carbon cycle -- 2.2 Microbial role in nitrogen cycle -- 2.3 Methane cycle and microbial communities -- 3. Climate change and impact on microorganisms -- 3.1 Causes of climate change -- 3.2 Climate change's impact on microorganisms -- 3.3 Microbes adapting to environmental challenges -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 7 - Gene prediction through metagenomics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of metagenomics -- 3. Sequencing the microbiome genome -- 3.1 Metagenomic data analysis -- 4. Gene prediction -- 4.1 Gene prediction methods -- 4.1.1 Sequence similarity-based searches -- 4.1.2 Ab initio method -- 5. Future prospects -- References -- Further reading -- 8 - Role of microbes in climate change and its impact: A critical review -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Microbiome in marine environment -- 2.1 Marine archaea -- 2.2 Extremophilic marine bacteria -- 2.3 Marine virus -- 2.4 Marine phytoplanktons -- 2.5 Marine mixoplanktons -- 2.6 Marine diatoms -- 2.7 Marine fungi -- 3. Effect of climate change on marine microbiota -- 4. Permafrost microbiome -- 4.1 Microbes and archaea -- 4.2 Virus -- 4.3 Algae -- 4.4 Fungi -- 5. Impact of climate change on permafrost microbiome -- 6. Terrestrial microbiome -- 6.1 Role of bacteria in biogeochemical cycle -- 7. Impact of climate change on terrestrial microbiome -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- 9 - Metagenomics approaches for microbiome analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diversity of gut microbiome -- 3. Functional metagenomics -- 4. Bioinformatics tools -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 10 - Study of microbial communities in degrading toxic pollutants in the wastewater and solid waste treatment indus ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Waste generation -- 3. Types of toxic compounds -- 3.1 Organic pollutants. , 4. Inorganic pollutants -- 5. Microbial interaction with organic pollutant -- 6. Microbial communities with respect to degradation of organic compound -- 7. Structure and methods -- 7.1 Amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis -- 7.2 Terminal restriction length polymorphism: T-RFLP -- 7.3 Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis -- 7.4 Ion torrent sequencing -- 7.5 Illumina sequencing -- 7.6 Quorum sensing system -- 8. Future perspectives -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Back Cover.