Inhaltsangabe1. Pathways of Carotenoids Biosynthesis in Bacteria and MicroalgaeJ. Paniagua-Michel, Jorge Olmos-Soto, Manuel Acosta Ruiz 2. Selection and Taxonomic Identification of Carotenoids Producing Marine Actinomycetes Francisco Romero, Rosa Isabel Fernández-Chimeno, Juan Luis de la Fuente, and José 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 coliHisashi Harada and Norihiko Misawa 7. Engineering Escherichia coli for Canthaxanthin and Astaxanthin BiosynthesisQiong Cheng, and Luan Tao 8. Analysis of Canthaxanthin Production by Gordonia jacobaeaPatricia Veiga-Crespo, Teresa Vinuesa, Miquel Viñas, and Tomás G. Villa 9. Isolation and Light-stimulated Expression of Canthaxanthin and Spirilloxathin Biosynthesis Genes from the Photosynthetic Bacterium Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain ORS278Eric Giraud, and André Verméglio 10. Construction of Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathways Through Chromosomal Integration in Methane-Utilizing Bacterium Methylomonas sp. Strain 16aRick W. Ye and Kristen Kelly 11. Genetic Modification in Bacillus subtilis for Production of C30 CarotenoidsIsamu Maeda 12. Carotenoids Production from Halophilic BacteriaMaría de Lourdes Moreno, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, María Teresa García and Encarnación Mellado 13. Construction and Utilization of Carotenoid Reporter Systems: Identification of Chromosomal Integration Sites that Support Suitable Expression of Biosynthetic Genes and PathwaysPamela L. Sharpe and Deana J. DiCosimo14. Directed Evolution of Carotenoid Synthases for the Production of Unnatural CarotenoidsMaiko Furubayashi and Daisuke Umeno 15. A High Throughput Screen for the Identification of Improved Catalytic activity: b-carotene HydroxylaseMark 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 SpeciesJorge Olmos, J. Paniagua-Michel, Rosalia Contreras and Leonel Ochoa 17. Ketocarotenoid Biosynthesis in Transgenic Microalgae Expressing a Foreign ß-C-4-carotene Oxygenase GeneMarta Vila, Aurora Galván, Emilio Fernández, Rosa León 18. Characterization of Carotenogenesis Genes in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120Hajime Masukawa, Mari Mochimaru, and Shinichi Takaichi 19. Obtaining Lutein Rich Extract from Microalgal Biomass at Preparative ScaleJosé M. Fernández-Sevilla, F. Gabriel Acién Fernández and Emilio Molina Grima 20. NMR-based Isotopologue Profiling of Microbial CarotenoidsEva Eylert, Adelbert Bacher and Wolfgang Eisenreich 21. Analysis of Diapocarotenoids Found in Pigmented Bacillus SpeciesLaura Pérez-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, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ue