Generalist hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial communities in the oil-polluted water column of the North Sea

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 434-447

  Chronopoulou, Panagiota Myrsini ^a,e   Sanni, Gbemisola O ^a   Silas Olu, Daniel I ^a   van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^b   Timmis, Kenneth N ^c   Brussaard, Corina P D ^d,f   McGenity, Terry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL RNA; HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; BACTERIAL DNA; OIL; RIBOSOME DNA; WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBON SOURCE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH SEA; OIL SPILL; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOTYPE; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SAMPLE; WATER POLLUTANT; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CHRYSOPHYTA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS;

BACTERIA; BIOTA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHRYSOPHYTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH SEA; OILS; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84928011363     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12176     Document Type: Article

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