Inhaltsangabe1. Essential Role of Genetics in the Advancement of Biotechnology Arnold L. Demain and José L. Adrio 2. Microbial CarotenoidsPreejith Vachali, Prakash Bhosale, and Paul S. Bernstein3. Biosynthesis, Extraction, Purification and Analysis of Trisporoid Sexual Communication Compounds from Mated Cultures of Blakeslea trisporaC. Schimek and J. Wöstemeyer4. Isolation of Mutants and Construction of Intersexual Heterokaryons  of Blakeslea trispora Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo and Bina J. Mehta5. Molecular Tools for Carotenogenesis Analysis in the Zygomycete Mucor circinelloidesSantiago Torres-Martínez, Rosa M. Ruiz-Vázquez, Victoriano Garre, Sergio López-García, Eusebio Navarro and Ana Vila6. Gene Fusions for the Directed Modification of the Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway in Mucor circinelloidesEnrique A. Iturriaga, Tamás Papp, María Isabel Alvarez, and Arturo P. Eslava7. Integration of a Bacterial Beta-carotene Ketolase Gene into the Mucor circinelloides Genome by the Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated Transformation (ATMT) MethodTamás Papp, Árpád Csernetics, Ildikó Nyilasi, Csaba Vágvölgyi and Enrique A. Iturriaga8. Metabolic Engineering of Mucor circinelloides for Zeaxanthin ProductionMarta Rodríguez-Sáiz, Juan Luis de la Fuent,  José Luis Barredo9. Bioengineering of Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia Lipolytica for Lycopene ProductionRick W. Ye, Pamela L. Sharpe, and Quinn Zhu10. Peroxisome Targeting of Lycopene Pathway Enzymes in Pichia pastorisPyung Cheon Lee11. Production, Extraction and Quantification of Astaxanthin by  Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous or Haematococcus pluvialis: Standardized Techniques Domínguez-Bocanegra Alma R. 12. Isolation and Selection of New Astaxanthin Producing Strains of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous Diego Libkind, Martín Moliné, and Celia Tognetti  13. Isolation and Characterization of Extrachromosomal double-stranded RNA Elements in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhousMarcelo Baeza, María Fernández-Lobato, and Víctor Cifuentes14. Isolation of Carotenoid Hyperproducing Mutants of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous (Phaffia rhodozyma) by Flow Cytometry and Cell SortingByron F. Brehm-Stecher and Eric A. Johnson15. Generation of Astaxanthin Mutants in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous using a Double Recombination Method Based on Hygromycin ResistanceMauricio Niklitschek, Marcelo Baeza, María Fernández-Lobato and Víctor Cifuentes 16. Genetic Manipulation of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous and Phaffia rhodozyma Guangyun Lin, Joanna Bultman, Eric A. Johnson, and Jack W. Fell 17. DNA Assembler Method for Construction of Zeaxanthin-producing Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Zengyi Shao, Yunzi Luo, and Huimin Zhao 18. Neurosporaxanthin Production by Neurospora and FusariumJavier Avalos, Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, and Alejandro F. Estrada19. Production of Torularhodin, Torulene and Beta-Carotene by Rhodotorula YeastsMartín Moliné, Diego Libkind, and Maria van Broock