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Microorganisms are the most diverse group of organisms and play important and distinctive roles in their ecosystems. They interact with their peers and other organisms (e.g. plants animals) to form a complicated food web significantly impacting ecosystem functions and services. However understanding the diversity composition structure function activity and dynamics of microbial communities remains challenging. Over the past decade microarray-based technologies have been developed to address such challenges. This book is focused on current microarray technologies and their applications in environmental microbiology. In the first chapter microarray technologies and applications are briefly introduced and in following chapters microarray probe design development and evaluation and data analysis are described in detail. In later chapters more attention is paid to phylogenetic arrays (e.g. PhyloChip) and functional gene arrays (e.g. GeoChip). These generic tools - for analyzing microbial communities from disparate environments ecosystems and habitats (including soil water sediment animals and humans) - are described in detail with examples of specific applications. Also included are microarrays for analyzing microbial communities from specific environments such as soil bioleaching ecosystems and human microbiomes as well as microarrays for detecting specific microorganisms (e.g. pathogens) in the environment. The books contributors also discuss the advantages and limitations of microarray technologies compared to high throughput sequencing technologies. This book is recommended for anyone working on microbial communities biofilms or environmental microbiology. [Subject: Microbiology Life Science Environmental Science]