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Marine Biotechnology Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marine Biotechnology Guest Editors: Song Qin, W. E. G. Müller, and Edwin L. Cooper Marine Biotechnology Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marine Biotechnology Guest Editors: Song Qin, W. E. G. Muller,¨ and Edwin L. Cooper Copyright © 2011 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in volume 2011 of “Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and repro- duction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Shrikant Anant, USA Toshiaki Kogure, Japan JoseLuisR´ ´ıos, Spain Vassya Bankova, Bulgaria Alfred Langler,¨ Germany Paolo Roberti di Sarsina, Italy Winfried Banzer, Germany Lixing Lao, USA Julie Ryan, USA Vernon Barnes, USA Jang-Hern Lee, Republic of Korea Bashar Saad, Palestinian Authority DebraL.Barton,USA Myeong Soo Lee, Republic of Korea Andreas Sandner-Kiesling, Austria Jairo Kenupp Bastos, Brazil Tat leang Lee, Singapore Adair Roberto Soares Santos, Brazil David Baxter, New Zealand Christian Lehmann, Canada Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann, Chile Alvin J. Beitz, USA Ping-Chung Leung, Hong Kong Andrew Scholey, Australia Paolo Bellavite, Italy Xiu-Min Li, USA Dana Seidlova-Wuttke, Germany Francesca Borrelli, Italy Chun Guang Li, Australia Senthamil R. Selvan, USA Arndt Bussing,¨ Germany Sabina Lim, Republic of Korea Ronald Sherman, USA Leigh F. Callahan, USA Gerhard Litscher, Austria Kan Shimpo, Japan Raffaele Capasso, Italy I-Min Liu, Taiwan Venil N. Sumantran, India Il-Moo Chang, Republic of Korea Ke Liu, China Takashi Takahashi, Japan Yunfei Chen, China John C. Longhurst, USA Toku Takahashi, USA Kevin W. Chen, USA Irene´ Lund, Sweden B. K. H. Tan, Singapore Juei-Tang Cheng, Taiwan Gail Mahady, USA Joanna Thompson-Coon, UK Jen-Hwey Chiu, Taiwan Francesco Marotta, Italy Mei Tian, USA Jae Youl Cho, Republic of Korea Virginia S. Martino, Argentina K. V. Trinh, Canada William C. Cho, Hong Kong James H. McAuley, Australia Alfredo Vannacci, Italy Shuang-En Chuang, Taiwan Andreas Michalsen, Germany Søren Ventegodt, Denmark Edwin L. Cooper, USA David Mischoulon, USA Carlo Ventura, Italy Vincenzo De Feo, Italy Mark A. Moyad, USA Wagner Vilegas, Brazil Alexandra Deters, Germany Stephen Myers, Australia Pradeep Visen, Canada Nobuaki Egashira, Japan S. Nagini, India Dietlind Wahner-Roedler, USA Peter Fisher, UK Vitaly Napadow, USA Shu-Ming Wang, USA Joel J. Gagnier, Canada Isabella Neri, Italy Kenji Watanabe, Japan Michael Goldstein, USA Martin Offenbacher, Germany Wolfgang Weidenhammer, Germany S. H. Hong, Republic of Korea Ki-Wan Oh, Republic of Korea Jenny M. Wilkinson, Australia Markus Horneber, Germany Y. Ohta, Japan Haruki Yamada, Japan Ching Liang Hsieh, Taiwan Olumayokun A. Olajide, UK Nobuo Yamaguchi, Japan Roman Huber, Germany Thomas Ostermann, Germany Hitoshi Yamashita, Japan Angelo Antonio Izzo, Italy Bhushan Patwardhan, India Ken Yasukawa, Japan Stefanie Joos, Germany Berit Smestad Paulsen, Norway E. Yesilada, Turkey Z. Kain, USA Richard Pietras, USA Hong Zhang, China Jong Yeol Kim, Republic of Korea Khalid Rahman, UK Ruixin Zhang, USA Cheorl-Ho Kim, Republic of Korea Cheppail Ramachandran, USA Boli Zhang, China Youn Chul Kim, Republic of Korea Cesar R. Ramos-Remus, Mexico Yoshiyuki Kimura, Japan Ke Ren, USA Contents Marine Biotechnology, Song Qin, W. E. G. Muller,¨ and Edwin L. Cooper Volume 2011, Article ID 639140, 2 pages Isolation and Identification of Acholeplasma sp. from the Mud Crab, Scylla serrata, Ji-Gang Chen, Dan Lou, and Ji-Fang Yang Volume 2011, Article ID 209406, 5 pages Immune Efficacy of a Genetically Engineered Vaccine against Lymphocystis Disease Virus: Analysis of Different Immunization Strategies, Fengrong Zheng, Xiuqin Sun, Xing’an Wu, Hongzhan Liu, Jiye Li, Suqi Wu, and Jinxing Zhang Volume 2011, Article ID 729216, 8 pages Description of a Sulfitobacter Strain and Its Extracellular Cyclodipeptides, Cong Long, Xiao-Ling Lu, Yun Gao, Bing-Hua Jiao, and Xiao-Yu Liu Volume 2011, Article ID 393752, 6 pages Isolation and Characterization of a Phosphate-Solubilizing Halophilic Bacterium Kushneria sp. 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