Recent Trends in Omics for the Analysis of Freshwater and Marine Biotoxins
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine and Freshwater Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 84
Special Issue Editor
Interests: harmful algae; blooms; proliferations; ecology; metabolomics; metagenomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Biotoxins are prevalent in aquatic environments and are produced by diverse organisms, from microscopic bacteria and algae to metazoans like sponges and polychaete worms. Recent advances in molecular technologies, including decreasing costs for DNA sequencing, are rapidly expanding our understanding of these organisms, from the genome to the metabolome. Omics-related techniques encompass genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, among related analyses, to generate rich data sets for the detailed examination of cellular responses at a broader scale. Further, omics studies can be expanded for the examination of complex communities to reveal microbiomes, community structure, and functional metagenomics of associated organisms. The aim of this Special Issue is to invite research articles related to the investigation of toxin-producing organisms utilizing omics-based methodologies to address questions at the level of the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and beyond, leading to a deeper understanding of these organisms, toxin biosynthesis, allelopathy, bloom formation, and toxicology.
Dr. Schonna R. Manning
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biotoxins
- genomics
- glycomics
- lipidomics
- metabolomics
- methylomics
- microbiome
- omics
- proteomics
- transcriptomics
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