For researchers, students, and scientists, Marco (Universidad Nacional de C̤rdoba, Argentina) assembles 11 chapters on the different aspects of metagenomics and its potential applications. Scientists working in biology, genomics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and other fields in Europe, South America, and North America cover new theories, recent applications, and developing methods of data acquisition and analysis, including conceptual frameworks, tools and methods, integration of complementary approaches, horizontal gene transfer, methodological challenges, analysis of complex microbial communities, public data resources, plant-microbe interactions, archael metagenomics, bioprospecting novel genes, philosophical themes in metagenomics, and applications to bioremediation, industrial bioproducts, and the study of the human microbiome. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
