Table of Contents

1. Metagenomics: A Paradigm Shift in Microbiology
Andrey V. Mardanov, Vitaly V. Kadnikov, Nikolai V. Ravin
2. Metagenomic Protocols and Strategies
Celia Méndez-García, Rafael Bargiela, Mónica Martínez-Martínez, Manuel Ferrer
3. Strategies for Taxonomic and Functional Annotation of Metagenomes
Johan Bengtsson-Palme
4. Computational and Statistical Considerations in the Analysis of Metagenomic Data
Fredrik Boulund, Mariana Buongermino Pereira, Viktor Jonsson, Erik Kristiansson
5. 16S rRNA-Based Taxonomy Profiling in the Metagenomics Era
Matteo Ramazzotti, Giovanni Bacci
6. Analyzing High-Throughput Microbial Amplicon Sequence Data Using Multiple Markers
Ilya Y. Zhbannikov, James A. Foster
7. Human Body to Water Reservoirs: Estimating Viral Population Characteristics Using High-Throughput Sequencing
Duleepa Jayasundara, Sen-Lin Tang, SamanK. Halgamuge
8. Measuring Microbiome Diversity With Hill Numbers
Zhanshan (Sam) Ma
9. Metagenomics: Implications in Oral Health and Disease
Muniyandi Nagarajan, Vandana R. Prabhu, Ranganathan Kamalakkannan
10. The Human Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease
Juan Jovel, Levinus A. Dieleman, Dina Kao, Andrew L. Mason, Eytan Wine
11. Comprehensive Exploration of the Rumen Microbial Ecosystem With Advancements in Metagenomics
Ramesh K. Kothari, Neelam M. Nathani, Chandrashekar Mootapally, Jalpa K. Rank, Haren B. Gosai, Bharti P. Dave, Chaitanya G. Joshi
12. The Microbiome of Desert CAM Plants: Lessons From Amplicon Sequencing and Metagenomics 
Citlali Fonseca-García, Damaris Desgarennes, Víctor M. Flores-Núñez, Laila P. Partida-Martínez
13. Metagenomics of Marine Invertebrate-Microbial Consortium.
Muthan Krishnaveni, Santhi Asha, Stephen Sharmin Vini, Stanislaus Mary Josephine Punitha
14. Novel Biological Resources Screened From Uncultured Bacteria by a Metagenomic Method
Nobutada Kimura
15. Advances of Functional Metagenomics in Harnessing Thermozymes
Juan-José Escuder-Rodríguez, María-Eugenia DeCastro, Manuel Becerra, Esther Rodríguez-Belmonte, María-Isabel González-Siso
16. Direct Cellulase Gene Amplification From Hot Spring Using the Guidance of 16S rRNA Amplicon Metagenomics
Kok Jun Liew, Chia Chiu Lim, Chia Sing Chan, Kwek Yan Wei, Madihah Md Salleh, Rajesh Kumar, Sani, Kok-Gan Chan, Kian Mau Goh
17. Comparative Metaproteomics to Study Environmental Changes
Sabine Matallana-Surget, Pratik D. Jagtap, Timothy J. Griffin, Mélanie Beraud, Ruddy Wattiez

About the Author

Dr. M. Nagarajan is an Associate Professor, at Department of Genomic Science, School of Biological Science, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, Kerala, India. His research interests primarily focus on population genetics, functional genomics and microbiome of wild and domestic animals. He received his M.Sc and PhD in Environmental Biotechnology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. After his Ph.D, he carried out his postdoctoral research at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India and then at Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Cellule, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. He was an Assistant Professor at Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi, Tamil Nadu before joining Central University of Kerala in 2012. He is an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, BMC Genomics, PLoS One, Frontiers in Genetics, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. He is a member of ISAG-FAO Advisory Group on Animal Genetic Diversity. He has more than 40 publications in leading international journals including PLoS Genetics and Molecular Ecology.