Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1. Fungal Secondary Metabolites in the "OMICS" Era
Susanne Zeilinger, Carlos García-Estrada, and Juan-Francisco Martín
Chapter 2. Key Players in the Regulation of Fungal Secondary Metabolism
Benjamin P. Knox and Nancy P. Keller
Chapter 3. Epigenetics of Fungal Secondary Metabolism Related Genes
Ming-Yueh Wu and Jae-Hyuk Yu
Chapter 4. Genome Mining for Fungal Secondary Metabolic Gene Clusters
Grayson T. Wawrzyn, Mark A. Held, Sarah E. Bloch, and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert
Chapter 5. Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics for the Exploration of Natural Products from Soil Fungi
Irshad Ul Haq and Jan Dirk van Elsas
Chapter 6. Metabolomics and Secondary Metabolite Profiling of Filamentous Fungi
Bernhard Kluger, Sylvia Lehner, and Rainer Schuhmacher
Chapter 7. Fungal Chemotaxonomy
Jens C. Frisvad
Chapter 8. Endophytic Fungi as a Source of Novel Metabolites
Fernanda O. Chagas, Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodriguez, and Mônica T. Pupo
Chapter 9. Fungal Secondary Metabolism in the Light of Animal-Fungus Interactions: From Mechanism to Ecological Function
Marko Rohlfs
Chapter 10. Fusarium Mycotoxins and Their Role in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Gerhard Adam, Gerlinde Wiesenberger, and Ulrich Güldener
Chapter 11. Biosynthesis and Molecular Genetics of Peptaibiotics - Fungal Peptides Containing Alpha, Alpha - Dialkyl Amino Acids
Xiao-Yan Song, Bin-Bin Xie, Xiu-Lan Chen, Yu-Zhong Zhang
About the Author: Juan-Francisco Martín, PhD
University of León, Department of Molecular Biology, Area of Microbiology, León, Spain
Carlos García-Estrada, DVM, PhD
Institute of Biotechnology of León (INBIOTEC), Parque Científico de León, León, Spain
Susanne Zeilinger, PhD
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Vienna, Austria