Assessment of the deepwater horizon oil spill impact on gulf coast microbial communities

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Lamendella, Regina ^a,b   Strutt, Steven ^b   Borglin, Sharon ^a   Chakraborty, Romy ^a   Tas, Neslihan ^a   Mason, Olivia U ^a,c   Hultman, Jenni ^a,d   Prestat, Emmanuel ^a   Hazen, Terry C ^a,e,f   Jansson, Janet K ^a,g  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e University of Tennessee   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Hydrocarbons; Metatranscriptomics; Microbial communities; Oil spill

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RNA 16S;

ALTEROMONADALES; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PSEUDOMONAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHODOBACTERALES; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84899689307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00130     Document Type: Article

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