Bioprospecting for Marine Organisms: From Genes to Compounds
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microalgae; drug discovery; gene mining; marine biotechnology; transcriptomics
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Dear Colleagues,
The marine realm is a rich source of secondary metabolites with different biological properties. In the vast and highly diversified marine environment, marine organisms have developed various survival strategies, leading to the production of a range of innovative molecules with high biotechnological impacts. Bioprospecting of marine organisms is an area of growing interest in facilitating the discovery of bioactive metabolites relevant for human applications (e.g., for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmeceutical sectors). New advances in the field are also given by -omics approaches, such as genome and transcriptome mining, that allow the study of the enzymatic pathways involved in the production of bioactive compounds and their activation.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect high-quality papers, including reviews and articles, related to up-to-date findings in marine organism bioprospecting.
Dr. Chiara Lauritano
Dr. Eleonora Montuori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine organisms
- bioprospecting
- secondary metabolites
- marine compounds
- gene pathways
- transcriptomes
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