Massive dominance of Epsilonproteobacteria in formation waters from a Canadian oil sands reservoir containing severely biodegraded oil

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 387-404

  Hubert, Casey R J ^a   Oldenburg, Thomas B P ^b   Fustic, Milovan ^b,e   Gray, Neil D ^a   Larter, Stephen R ^b   Penn, Kevin ^c,f   Rowan, Arlene K ^a,g   Seshadri, Rekha ^c,h   Sherry, Angela ^a   Swainsbury, Richard ^a   Voordouw, Gerrit ^d   Voordouw, Johanna K ^d   Head, Ian M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e CNOOC LTD   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OIL AND GAS FIELD; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CANADA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PETROLEUM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; METHANOMICROBIALES; OTUS; SULFURICURVUM; SULFURICURVUM KUJIENSE; SULFUROSPIRILLUM;

EID: 84856561934     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02521.x     Document Type: Article

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