Pulsed blooms and persistent oil-degrading bacterial populations in the water column during and after the Deepwater Horizon blowout

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 129, Issue , 2016, Pages 282-291

  Yang, Tingting ^a   Nigro, Lisa M ^a   Gutierrez, Tony ^b,c   D'Ambrosio, Lindsay ^a   Joye, Samantha B ^d   Highsmith, Raymond ^e   Teske, Andreas ^a  

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

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

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial community; Cycloclasticus; Hydrocarbon plume; Oceanospirillales; Pyrosequencing; Water column

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; BLOWOUTS; CLONING; GENES; HYDROCARBONS; LIBRARIES; RNA; WELLHEADS;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CYCLOCLASTICUS; HYDROCARBON PLUME; OCEANOSPIRILLALES; PYROSEQUENCING; WATER COLUMNS;

OIL SPILLS;

ALGAL BLOOM; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BLOWOUT; CLONE; DATA SET; DEEP WATER; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OIL SPILL; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLUME; WATER COLUMN; WELLHEAD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLWELLIA; CYCLOCLASTICUS; OCEANOSPIRILLALES;

EID: 84973355577     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.01.014     Document Type: Article

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