Advances in Cyanobacterial Blooms, Toxicity and Ecology

Dear Colleagues,

Cyanobacteria are an ancient prokaryote phylum that evolved ~3 billion years ago and are attributed with oxygenating the Earth’s atmosphere during the Great Oxygenation event. They play a key role in the global carbon cycle as important primary producers. Diazotrophic strains are fundamental to the nitrogen cycle, and, thus, cyanobacteria provide significant widespread ecological roles. They are found in almost every habitat on Earth, including symbiotic, freshwater, terrestrial, marine and extreme environments, presenting a great capacity for rapid adaptation to various environmental conditions due to their morphological and metabolic versatility. Further, cyanobacteria are well known for their ability to produce a range of natural products, including toxins with deleterious effects on ecosystem equilibrium and human health as well as those with valuable properties, namely, the production of lipids for biofuels and pharmaceuticals. As cyanobacterial ecology, toxicity and natural products research continues to mature, we eagerly await the exciting discoveries these data will provide.

In this Special Issue of Life, we invite researchers from all over the world to share with us their recent advances in the form of original work and review articles with a focus on cyanobacterial toxicity and ecology.

Dr. Paul M. D'Agostino
Dr. Nádia Eusébio
Dr. Ângela Brito
Guest Editors

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