Indigenous hydrocarbon-utilizing bacterioflora in oil-polluted habitats in Kuwait, two decades after the greatest man-made oil spill

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 194, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 689-705

  Al Awadhi, H ^a   Al Mailem, D ^a   Dashti, N ^a   Khanafer, M ^a   Radwan, S ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Desert soil; Diazotrophs; Hydrocarbons; Oil pollution

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; HYDROCARBON; NITROGEN; OCTADECANE; PETROLEUM; PHENANTHRENE; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON UTILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT QUALITY; KUWAIT; NATIVE SPECIES; NIFH GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OIL SPILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASHORE; SOIL ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROCARBONS; KUWAIT; NITROGEN FIXATION; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84865967556     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-012-0800-7     Document Type: Article

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