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The Essentials of Marine Biotechnology The Essentials of Marine Biotechnology Ana Rotter, Michéle Barbier, Francesco Bertoni, Atle Bones, M Cancela, Jens Carlsson, Maria Carvalho, Marta Ceglowska, Jerónimo Chirivella-Martorell, Meltem Conk Dalay, et al. To cite this version: Ana Rotter, Michéle Barbier, Francesco Bertoni, Atle Bones, M Cancela, et al.. The Essen- tials of Marine Biotechnology. Frontiers in Marine Science, Frontiers Media, 2021, 8, pp.629629. 10.3389/fmars.2021.629629. hal-03230301 HAL Id: hal-03230301 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03230301 Submitted on 19 May 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. fmars-08-629629 March 10, 2021 Time: 14:8 # 1 REVIEW published: 16 March 2021 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.629629 The Essentials of Marine Biotechnology Ana Rotter1*, Michéle Barbier2, Francesco Bertoni3,4, Atle M. Bones5, M. Leonor Cancela6,7, Jens Carlsson8, Maria F. Carvalho9, Marta Cegłowska10, Jerónimo Chirivella-Martorell11, Meltem Conk Dalay12, Mercedes Cueto13, 14 15 16 17 Edited by: Thanos Dailianis , Irem Deniz , Ana R. Díaz-Marrero , Dragana Drakulovic , 18 19 20 21 Maria Angeles Esteban, Arita Dubnika , Christine Edwards , Hjörleifur Einarsson , Ay ¸segülErdoganˇ , University of Murcia, Spain Orhan Tufan Eroldoganˇ 22, David Ezra23, Stefano Fazi24, Richard J. FitzGerald25, Laura M. Gargan8, Susana P. Gaudêncio26, Marija Gligora Udovicˇ 27, Reviewed by: 28 29 30 1 Fabiano Thompson, Nadica Ivoševic´ DeNardis , Rósa Jónsdóttir , Marija Kataržyte˙ , Katja Klun , 31 32 27 33 14 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Jonne Kotta , Leila Ktari , Zrinka Ljubešic´ , Lada Lukic´ Bilela , Manolis Mandalakis , Brazil Alexia Massa-Gallucci34, Inga Matijošyte˙ 35, Hanna Mazur-Marzec36, Mohamed Mehiri37,38, Bin Wu, Søren Laurentius Nielsen39, Lucie Novoveská40, Donata Overlinge˙ 30, Zhejiang University, China Giuseppe Perale41,42,43, Praveen Ramasamy39, Céline Rebours44, Thorsten Reinsch45, 46 47 48 38,49 *Correspondence: Fernando Reyes , Baruch Rinkevich , Johan Robbens , Eric Röttinger , Ana Rotter Vita Rudovica50, Jerica Saboticˇ 51, Ivo Safarik52,53, Siret Talve54, Deniz Tasdemir55,56, [email protected] Xenia Theodotou Schneider57, Olivier P. Thomas58, Anna Torunska-Sitarz´ 36, Giovanna Cristina Varese59 and Marlen I. Vasquez60 Specialty section: 1 2 This article was submitted to Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia, Institute for Science and Ethics, Nice, France, 3 Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oncology Research, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 4 5 a section of the journal Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, 6 Frontiers in Marine Science Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Centre of Marine Sciences/CCMAR, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, 7 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Algarve Biomedical Received: 15 November 2020 Centre and Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, 8 Area 52 Research Group, School Accepted: 08 February 2021 of Biology and Environmental Science/Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 9 CIIMAR Interdisciplinary Published: 16 March 2021 Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 10 Marine Biochemistry Laboratory, Citation: Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, 11 IMEDMAR – Catholic University of Valencia, Valencia, Rotter A, Barbier M, Bertoni F, Spain, 12 Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ege University, Izmir,˙ Turkey, 13 Instituto de Productos Bones AM, Cancela ML, Carlsson J, Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), La Laguna, Spain, 14 Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology & Aquaculture, Carvalho MF, Cegłowska M, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece, 15 Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Manisa Chirivella-Martorell J, Conk Dalay M, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey, 16 Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgaìnica Antonio Gonzaìlez, Universidad de La Cueto M, Dailianis T, Deniz I, Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, 17 Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro, Kotor, Montenegro, 18 Rudolfs Cimdins Riga Díaz-Marrero AR, Drakulovic D, Biomaterials Innovations and Development Centre, Institute of General Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Materials Science Dubnika A, Edwards C, Einarsson H, and Applied Chemistry, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia, 19 School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon Erdoganˇ A, Eroldoganˇ OT, Ezra D, University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 20 Faculty of Natural Resource Sciences, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland, Fazi S, FitzGerald RJ, Gargan LM, 21 Application and Research Centre For Testing and Analysis (EGE MATAL), Ege University, Izmir,˙ Turkey, 22 Department Gaudêncio SP, Gligora Udovicˇ M, of Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey, 23 The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Ivoševic´ DeNardis N, Jónsdóttir R, Organization, Rishon LeZion, Israel, 24 Water Research Institute, National Research Council, Monterotondo, Italy, Kataržyte˙ M, Klun K, Kotta J, Ktari L, 25 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 26 Blue Biotechnology and Biomedicine Lab, Ljubešic´ Z, Lukic´ Bilela L, UCIBIO – Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, Faculty for Sciences and Technology, NOVA Mandalakis M, Massa-Gallucci A, University Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal, 27 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, Matijošyte˙ I, Mazur-Marzec H, 28 Ruder¯ Boškovic´ Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, 29 Matis ohf, Reykjavik, Iceland, 30 Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University, Mehiri M, Nielsen SL, Novoveská L, Klaipeda, Lithuania, 31 Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Tallinn, Estonia, 32 B3Aqua Lab, National Institute of Overlinge˙ D, Perale G, Ramasamy P, Marine Sciences and Technologies, Carthage University, Tunis, Tunisia, 33 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Rebours C, Reinsch T, Reyes F, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 34 Department of Fisheries Research and Development, Rinkevich B, Robbens J, Röttinger E, AquaBioTech Group, Mosta, Malta, 35 Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, Rudovica V, Saboticˇ J, Safarik I, 36 Division of Marine Biotechnology, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdansk,´ Gdynia, Poland, Talve S, Tasdemir D, 37 Marine Natural Products Team, Institute of Chemistry of Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, UMR CNRS, Nice, France, Theodotou Schneider X, Thomas OP, 38 Federative Research Institute – Marine Resources (IFR MARRES), Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, 39 Department Torunska-Sitarz´ A, Varese GC and of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark, 40 Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Vasquez MI (2021) The Essentials of United Kingdom, 41 Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, 42 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Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria, 43 Industrie Biomediche Insubri SA, Front. Mar. Sci. 8:629629. Mezzovico-Vira, Switzerland, 44 Møreforsking AS, Ålesund, Norway, 45 Institute of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.629629 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 46 Fundación MEDINA, Granada, Spain, 47 Israel Oceanographic Frontiers in Marine Science| www.frontiersin.org 1 March 2021| Volume 8| Article 629629 fmars-08-629629 March 10, 2021 Time: 14:8 # 2 Rotter et al. 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