Role of Bacterial Exopolysaccharides (EPS) in the Fate of the Oil Released during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gutierrez, Tony ^a,b   Berry, David ^c   Yang, Tingting ^d   Mishamandani, Sara ^a   McKay, Luke ^d   Teske, Andreas ^d   Aitken, Michael D ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BACTERIAL EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HYDROCARBON; OIL; RNA 16S; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; PETROLEUM; SEA WATER;

ALTEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMULSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GULF OF MEXICO; HALOMONAS; MACROMOLECULE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OIL SPILL; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PYROSEQUENCING; SOLUBILIZATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ALTEROMONAS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLWELLIA; HALOMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; HALOMONAS; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84879531554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067717     Document Type: Article

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