Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria and the bacterial community response in Gulf of Mexico beach sands impacted by the deepwater horizon oil spill

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 7962-7974

  Kostka, Joel E ^a   Prakash, Om ^a   Overholt, Will A ^a   Green, Stefan J ^a,c   Freyer, Gina ^a,b   Canion, Andy ^a   Delgardio, Jonathan ^a   Norton, Nikita ^a   Hazen, Terry C ^d   Huettel, Markus ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTERS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL ISOLATES; BACTERIAL STRAINS; BEACH SAND; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEEPWATER; ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GULF OF MEXICO; HYDROCARBON DEGRADERS; IN-SITU; MARINOBACTER; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; OIL CONTAMINATION; OIL DEGRADATION; PENSACOLA BEACH; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; PHYLOTYPES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RRNA GENES; SEQUENCE IDENTITY;

BEACHES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; HYDRAULIC FLUIDS; HYDROCARBONS; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; RNA; SAND;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; HYDROCARBON; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BEACH; BIODEGRADATION; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DEEP WATER; OIL SPILL; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHORELINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GULF OF MEXICO; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OIL SPILL; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FLORIDA; GULF OF MEXICO; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; PENSACOLA BEACH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83055184882     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05402-11     Document Type: Article

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