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1. Pathways of Carotenoids Biosynthesis in Bacteria and Microalgae

J. Paniagua-Michel, Jorge Olmos-Soto, Manuel Acosta Ruiz

2. Selection and Taxonomic Identification of Carotenoids Producing Marine Actinomycetes

Francisco Romero, Rosa Isabel Fern ndez-Chimeno, Juan Luis de la Fuente, and Jos Luis Barredo

3. Isolation, Characterization and Diversity of Novel Radio-tolerant Carotenoids-producing Bacteria

Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda

4. A Novel Radio-tolerant Astaxanthin Producing Bacterium Reveals a New Astaxanthin Derivative: Astaxanthin Dirhamnoside

Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda

5. Novel Zeaxanthin Producing Bacteria Isolated from a Radioactive Hot Spring Water

-----Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda

6. Novel Approach in the Biosynthesis of Functional Carotenoids in Escherichia coli

Hisashi Harada and Norihiko Misawa

7. Engineering Escherichia coli for Canthaxanthin and Astaxanthin Biosynthesis

Qiong Cheng, and Luan Tao

8. Analysis of Canthaxanthin Production by Gordonia jacobaea

Patricia Veiga-Crespo, Teresa Vinuesa, Miquel Vi as, and Tom's G. Villa

9. Isolation and Light-stimulated Expression of Canthaxanthin and Spirilloxathin Biosynthesis Genes from the Photosynthetic Bacterium Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain ORS278

Eric Giraud, and Andr Verm glio

10. Construction of Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathways Through Chromosomal Integration in Methane-Utilizing Bacterium Methylomonas sp. Strain 16a

Rick W. Ye and Kristen Kelly

11. Genetic Modification in Bacillus subtilis for Production of C30 Carotenoids

Isamu Maeda

Mar a de Lourdes Moreno, Cristina S nchez-Porro, Mar a Teresa Garc a and Encarnaci n Mellado

13. Construction and Utilization of Carotenoid Reporter Systems: Identification of Chromosomal Integration Sites that Support Suitable Expression of Biosynthetic Genes and Pathways

Pamela L. Sharpe and Deana J. DiCosimo

14. Directed Evolution of Carotenoid Synthases for the Production of Unnatural Carotenoids

Maiko Furubayashi and Daisuke Umeno

15. A High Throughput Screen for the Identification of Improved Catalytic activity: b-carotene Hydroxylase

Mark A. Scaife, Cynthia A. Ma, Phillip C. Wright, and Roberto E. Armenta

16. DNA Fingerprinting Intron-sizing Method to Accomplish a Specific,

Rapid and Sensitive Identification of Carotenogenic Dunaliella Species

Jorge Olmos, J. Paniagua-Michel, Rosalia Contreras and Leonel Ochoa

17. Ketocarotenoid Biosynthesis in Transgenic Microalgae Expressing a Foreign β-C-4-carotene Oxygenase Gene

Marta Vila, Aurora Galv n, Emilio Fern ndez, Rosa Le n

18. Characterization of Carotenogenesis Genes in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

Hajime Masukawa, Mari Mochimaru, and Shinichi Takaichi

19. Obtaining Lutein Rich Extract from Microalgal Biomass at Preparative Scale

Jos M. Fern ndez-Sevilla, F. Gabriel Aci n Fern ndez and Emilio Molina Grima

20. NMR-based Isotopologue Profiling of Microbial Carotenoids

Eva Eylert, Adelbert Bacher and Wolfgang Eisenreich

21. Analysis of Diapocarotenoids Found in Pigmented Bacillus Species

Laura P rez-Fons, and Paul D. Fraser

4. A Novel Radio-tolerant Astaxanthin Producing Bacterium Reveals a New Astaxanthin Derivative: Astaxanthin Dirhamnoside

Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad.