Main description:

The book overviews the complex interactions amongst the microbes and their possible applications. Emphasis has been made to include a wide spectrum of experimental and theoretical contributions from eminent researchers in the field. Microbial communities are the assemblages of microorganisms of various species which live together in the same environment and continuously interact with each other. The microbial cells in communities display unique phenotypes that affect the survival and reproduction of other cells present around them. These phenotypes constitute the social adaptations that drive the interactions between microbial cells. The interactions, further determine the productivity, stability and the ability of community to resist the environmental perturbations. These microbial communities live with extremely competitive niche and fight for their survival and genetic persistence. But they frequently appear in niche with multifaceted and interactive webs rather than the planktonic nature. This can be within the same species or with different species, or even with diverse genera and families. It either a competitive winner community whereas the "weaker" strain goes extinct or a competitor that coexist with their metabolic secretory potentials or a separator that assigned their own community territorial niches. Sometimes, it can be neutral or tritagonist. These microbial associations within the microbiome provides the foundation for diverse forms of microbial ecology and determined the applied perspectives for agriculture, clinical and industrial sectors. This book will be useful to postgraduate students, researchers from academic as well as industry working in the field of microbial exploration with keen interest in survival factors and mechanism of their survival by various ecological and functional strategies.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Synergistic interactions among microbial communities.- Chapter 2. Actinobacterial secondary metabolites from Maghrebian ecosystems: An overview of half-century of investigation.- Chapter 3.Study of potential interrelationship criteria of microorganisms for sustainable diversity .- Chapter 4. Antimicrobial Peptide and Toxin-based Mutualism: Obligate Symbiotic Entomopathogenic Nematode - Bacterium Associations .- Chapter 5. Microbial abundance and strategies of adaptation in various extreme environments .- Chapter 6. Bacterial Community Composition Dynamics in Rice Rhizosphere: A Metagenomic Approaches.- Chapter 7. Diversity and application of heavy-metal resistant microbes.- Chapter 8. Microbial Syntrophy mediated fortification for eco-enterprising .- Chapter 9.Lichen microbiome: diversity biological role and biotechnological application.- Chapter 10.Antagonists and antibiosis: Game-changer of agriculture and health sector.- Chapter 11. Role of quorum sensing in the survival of rhizospheric microbes .- Chapter 12. Understanding the link between the urinary microbiome and urinary lithiasis disease .- Chapter 13. Understanding of gut microbial ecology for new therapeutics .- Chapter 14. Ecology and abundance of benzoate degrading bacteria in industrial waste .- Chapter 15. Metallotolerant microorganisms and microbe-assisted phytoremediation for a sustainable clean environment .- Chapter 16. Actinobacterial abundance and interrelationships in ecosystems of Northwest Africa.