This book helps us to understand the importance of the microbiome associated with finfish and shellfish inhabiting different locations and varied environmental and biological situations. It covers modern molecular tools for identifying microbiome composition and their precise identification at the species level. The book also covers the molecular structural composition of individual microbes, metabolite resources from microbiome species, their functional properties, and production aspects. Notable, the book covers the microbiome applications in the gut systems of finfish and shellfish to the digestion, nutrition, growth, reproduction, immune system, and vulnerability of the host to diseases. It also reviews diversity and functional properties, relationships with diseases, health status, data on species-specific metagenomics, and probiotic research. It highlights the relevance of microbial communities for the development of new and innovative bio-products to build bio and pharmaceutical industries, including aquaculture. This book is an invaluable source for researchers and professionals involved in fishery science, fisheries and aquaculture, fish biotechnology, and fish microbiology and pathology
Dr A D Diwan is former Assistant Director General (ADG) in the Fisheries Division of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Before assuming this position, he was a Professor and Head of the Fish Genetics & Biotechnology Division and also a Dean (Faculty of Fishery Science) at the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) a Deemed University, in Mumbai. He started his career as an Associate Professor in the Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Mariculture, an ICAR/UNDP project of the Government of India at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Kochi.
He specializes in animal physiology and neurosciences with a vast background and experience in marine and oceanic fisheries and mariculture and published more than 140 research papers of both national and international repute. He has also edited and authored several books on physiology, biotechnology, and fisheries. He has guided several Ph.D. students and two of them have been honored with the ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award for excellent Post-Graduate Agricultural Research and Education. He is also a recipient of the Bharat Ratna Dr. C. Subramaniam Best Teacher National Award of ICAR, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He has served as a member of boards of many national and international committees. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Environmental Biology, the National Academy of Nature Conservator, and the Bioved Research Society. He worked as UGC Emeritus Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi Mission (MGM) University of Health Sciences, Aurangabad, Maharashtra. Under the Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, he was selected as a scientist expert for writing a specialized reference book on shrimp biotechnology. Presently, he is continuing as an emeritus professor at the MGM University of Health Sciences in the Department of Biotechnology, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
Dr. S N Hark is the founder and Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Technology under Mahatma Gandhi Mission University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. He is specialized in the field of biotechnology, biochemistry, molecular biology, gene technology, synthetic biology, and computational biology. He has vast experience of teaching UG and PG courses in different disciplines of biotechnology and computational biology. He has published several research papers and edited a few books, and presently, he is working on various research projects in the area of fungal-host cell interaction, synthetic biology, and aging.
Dr. Archana N Panche presently is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark, and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology under Mahatma Gandhi Mission University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. She is specialized in Bioinformatics and computational biology. She has more than 10 years of experience of teaching UG and PG courses in different disciplines of biotechnology, bioinformatics, and computational biology. She has published a number of research papers in journals of national and international repute.
