Special Issue "Research on Environmental Metabolomics"

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental metabolomics is the application of metabolomics to characterize the interactions of organisms with their environment. It is a powerful tool for studying organism–environment interactions and for assessing organism function and health at the molecular level.

Metabolomics is finding an increasing number of applications in the environmental sciences, ranging from understanding organismal responses to abiotic stressors, including both natural factors such as temperature and anthropogenic factors such as pollution, to investigating biotic–biotic interactions, such as infection and herbivory.

Environmental metabolomics is also a powerful tool for the evaluation of health effects, ecotoxicity, and mode of action of environmental contaminants. Modern separation and identification methods offer exciting perspectives to detect and identify simultaneously endogenous metabolite profiles and xenobiotic mixtures accumulating in environmental and/or biological samples. When organisms are exposed to a number of different chemical substances, these may act jointly and simultaneously, affecting the overall level of toxicity. Metabolomics allows profiling the metabolome and xenometabolome of organisms exposed to contaminant mixtures and identifying biomarkers of exposure.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect both original research papers and review articles able to highlight advancements in modern separation and identification methods for both metabolome and xenometabolome in the field of environmental science.

Dr. Wentao Zhu
Dr. Dezhen Wang
Guest Editors

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• Metabolomics method development
• Biomarkers
• Environmental toxicology
• Environmental exposure
• Health effects
• Molecular mechanisms
• Mode of action