Microbiota are a promising and fascinating subject in biology because they integrate the microbial communities in humans, animals, plants, and the environment. In humans, microbiota are associated with the gut, skin, and genital, oral, and respiratory organs. The plant microbial community is referred to as "holobiont," and it is influential in the maintenance and health of plants, which themselves play a role in animal health and the environment. The contents of Microbiome-Host Interactions cover all areas as well as new research trends in the fields of plant, animal, human, and environmental microbiome interactions. The book covers microbiota in polar soil environments, in health and disease, in Caenorhabditis elegans, and in agroecosystems, as well as in rice root and actinorhizal root nodules, speleothems, and marine shallow-water hydrothermal vents. Moreover, this book provides comprehensive accounts of advanced next-generation DNA sequencing, metagenomic techniques, high-throughput 16S rRNA sequencing, and understanding nucleic acid sequence data from fungal, algal, viral, bacterial, cyanobacterial, actinobacterial, and archaeal communities using QIIME software (Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology). FEATURES Summarizes recent insight in microbiota and host interactions in distinct habitats, including Antarctic, hydrothermal vents, speleothems, oral, skin, gut, feces, reproductive tract, soil, root, root nodules, forests, and mangroves Illustrates the high-throughput amplicon sequencing, computational techniques involved in the microbiota analysis, downstream analysis and visualization, and multivariate analysis commonly used for microbiome analysis Describes probiotics and prebiotics in the composition of the gut microbiota, skin microbiome impact in dermatologic disease prevention, and microbial communities in the reproductive tract of humans and animals Presents information in a reachable way for students, teachers, researchers, microbiologists, computational biologists, and other professionals who are interested in strengthening or enlarging their knowledge about microbiome analysis with next-generation DNA sequencing in the different branches of the sciences

<P>1. An Insight of Microbiome Science</P><I><P>[T. Savitha, A. Sankaranarayanan, and Ashraf Y. Z. Khalifa]</P></I><P></P><B><P>Section I: Omics and Computational Techniques Used for Microbiome Analysis</P></B><P>2. Multi-Omics: Overview, Challenges, and Applications</P><I><P>[Sushant Parab and Federico Bussolino]</P></I><P>3. Computational Techniques Used for Microbial Diversity Analysis</P><I><P>[Dattatray S. Mongad, Nikeeta S. Chavan, and Yogesh S. Shouche]</P></I><P>4. Downstream Analysis and Visualization-Knowledge Discovery -- Alpha and Beta Diversity</P><I><P>[Murali Sankar Perumal and Shreedevasena Sakthibalan]</P></I><P>5. Biostatistics Including Multivariate Analysis Commonly Used for Microbiome Analysis/Study</P><I><P>[Priyanka Sarkar]</P></I><P></P><B><P>Section II: Human Microbiome</P></B><P>6. Structure and Functional Role of Microbiome Associated with Specific Organs of Healthy Individuals</P><I><P>[Shanmugaraj Gowrishankar, Arumugam Kamaladevi, and Shunmugiah Karutha Pandian]</P></I><P>7. Structure and Function of Healthy Human Microbiome: Role in Health and Disease</P><I><P>[Sunil Banskar and Shrikant Bhute]</P></I><P>8. Human Microbiome's Role in Disease</P><I><P>[Sahabram Dewala and Yogesh S. Shouche]</P></I><P>9. Role of Human Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease</P><I><P>[Nazar Reehana, Mohamed Yousuff Mohamed Imran, Nooruddin Thajuddin, and Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran]</P></I><P>10. The Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics in the Composition of the Gut Microbiota and Their Influence on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Obesity, and Diabetes</P><I><P>[Rafael Resende Maldonado, Ana Lúcia Alves Caram, Daniela Soares de Oliveira, Eliana Setsuko Kamimura and Mônica Roberta Mazalli, and Elizama Aguiar-Oliveira]</P></I><P>11. Skin Microbiome, Its Impact on Dermatological Diseases, and Intervention of Probiotics</P><I><P>[Mitesh Dwivedi, Firdosh Shah, and Prashant S. Giri]</P></I><P>12. Role of Dysregulation of the Human Oral and Gastrointestinal Microbiome in Chronic Inflammatory Disease</P><I><P>[Diana R. Cundell and Manuela Tripepi]</P></I><P>13. Microbiome in Women Reproductive Health</P><I><P>[C. Anchana Devi, T. Ramani Devi, and Pavithra Amritkumar]</P></I><P>14. Crosstalk between Bacteria and Host Immune System with Special Emphasis on Foodborne Pathogens</P><I><P>[A.A.P. Milton, G. BhuvanaPriya, M. Angappan, S. Ghatak, and Vivek Joshi]</P></I><P></P><B><P>Section III: Animal Microbiome</P></B><P>15. Reproductive Tract Microbiome in Animals: Physiological versus Pathological Condition</P><I><P>[R. Vikram, Vivek Joshi, A. A. P. Milton, M. H. Khan, and K. P. Biam]</P></I><P>16. Community Structures of Fecal Actinobacteria in Animal Gastrointestinal System</P><I><P>[Selvanathan Latha and Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran]</P></I><P>17. Microbiota Functions in <I>Caenorhabditis elegans</P><P>[Arun Kumar, Somarani Dash, and Mojibur R. Khan]</P></I><P>18. Impact of Microbial Communities on the Female Reproductive Tract of Bovine</P><I><P>[M. Srinivasan, J. Helan Chandra, M.S. Murugan, C. Manikkaraja, D. Dhanasekaran, and G. Archunan]</P></I><P></P><B><P>Section IV: Plant Microbiome</P></B><P>19. Insights into the Structure, Function, and Dynamics of Rice Root and Rhizosphere-Associated Microbiome</P><I><P>[Ekramul Islam and Kiron Bhakat]</P></I><P>20. Mangrove Ecosystem and Microbiome</P><I><P>[Snehal O. Kulkarni and Yogesh S. Shouche]</P></I><P>21. Role of the Mycobiome in Agroecosystems</P><I><P>[Ahmed Abdul Haleem Khan]</P></I><P>22. Root Nodule Microbiome from Actinorhizal Casuarina Plant</P><I><P>[Narayanasamy Marappa, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, and Thajuddin Nooruddin]</P></I><P>23. Growth Promotion Utility of the Plant Microbiome</P><I><P>[S. Kalaiselvi and A. Panneerselvam]</P></I><P></P><B><P>Section V: Environmental Microbiome</P></B><P>24. Microbiome of Speleothems -- Secondary Mineral Deposits</P><I><P>[D. Mudgil]</P></I><P>25. Microbiome of Marine Shallow-Water Hydrothermal Vents</P><I><P>[Raju Rajasabapathy, Chellandi Mohandass, Ana Colaço, and Rathinam Arthur James]</P></I><P>26. Diversity and Bioprospecting Potentials of Antarctic (Polar) Microbes</P><I><P>[B. Abirami, K. Manigundan, M. Radhakrishnan, V. Gopikrishnan, P.V. Bhaskar, T. Shanmugasundaram, and Syed G. Dastager]</P></I><P>27. Alterations in Microbial Community Structure and Function in Response to Azo Dyes</P><I><P>[Sandhya Nanjani and Hareshkumar Keharia]</P></I><P>28. Soil Microbiome</P><I><P>[Govindan Nadar Rajivgandhi, Vimala RTV, Govindan Ramachandran, Natesan Manoharan, and Wen Jun-Li]</P></I>

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