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Aerobic carbon monoxide oxidation in the course of growth of a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. ETSY
An aerobic hyperthermophilic CO-oxidizing archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. strain ETSY, was isolated and characterized. Presently, it is the only known representative of both hyperthermophiles and Archaea that is capable...
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Effect of a Bioemulsificant Exopolysaccharide (EPS2003) on Abundance and Vitality of Marine Bacteria
The aim of this work has been to analyze the effects of a bioemulsificant exopolysaccharide (EPS2003) on the abundance and vitality of natural marine microbial population. Harbor seawater microcosms, supplemented...
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Characterisation of Oil-Degrading Bacteria Isolated from Bilge Water
During an initial screening in samples of bilge water, four bacterial strains capable to oil degrade have been isolated. Two strains, named isolates BW-1 and BW-2, were clustered with Acinetobacter genus (a simil...
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Biodegradation of a Bioemulsificant Exopolysaccharide (EPS2003) by Marine Bacteria
The aim of the study is to analyze the biodegradation capacity of a biosurfactant exopolysaccharide (EPS2003) by heterotrophic marine bacterial strains. During the initial screening performed in two sites located...
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Alcanivorax
Crude oil is toxic for most life forms, and environmental pollution by petroleum hydrocarbons causes major ecological problems, especially in marine environments. Fortunately, a considerable amount of petroleu...
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Oleispira
This chapter describes the taxonomic placement, physiology, and biogeography of marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (OHCB) from the genus Oleispira. A pure culture of the strain RB-8(T) representing the ...
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Q-RT-PCR Detection of Substrate-Specific Gene Expression
The assessment of oil impact in marine environment must take into account two important issues: (1) to establish the type or types of contaminants and (2) verify their bioavailability and transformation by mic...
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Mesocosms for Oil Spill Simulation
Enclosed experimental ecosystems (mesocosms) are important research tools for the evaluation of the fate and effects of xenobiotic chemicals (as crude oil) of parts (individuals, populations, communities) and ...
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Oil Tanker Sludges and Slops
Despite international agreements, economic interests, and increasing environmental protection awareness, oil transportation in the third millennium is a dangerous business causing many cases of pollution. It i...
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Thermoleophilum: A Gram-Positive Hydrocarbonoclastic Thermophilic Bacterium
Among the hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (HCB) the organisms representing two species of the genus Thermoleophilum, T. album, and T. minutum, are the only obligately thermophilic organisms known to-date. These terr...
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Oleiophilus
During the last few years, efforts to isolate indigenous marine microbes by extinction dilution in artificial seawater containing hydrocarbons have yielded taxonomically and physiologically new obligate hydroc...
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Thalassolituus
Over the past decade, the obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (OHCB) have been recognized and shown to play a significant role in the biological removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from polluted marine waters ...
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Petroleum Toxicity and Bioaccumulation Studies in Fish, Sea Urchins and Mussels
Established suite of biomarkers is being extensively used worldwide to assess the impact of toxic and highly recalcitrant hydrocarbon pollutants on the marine ecosystem. Various species of sentinel marine orga...
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Vegetable Oil Wastes
Vegetable oil wastes that are made of plant residues and oils and discarded after use pose a significant disposal problem in many parts of the world. Several plants provide oil from nutritional needs (olive, p...
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Alcanivorax borkumensis
Alcanivorax borkumensis is a marine bacterium that uses exclusively petroleum oil hydrocarbons as sources of carbon and energy (and is therefore designated “hydrocarbonoclastic”). It is found in lo...
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Ship**-Related Accidental and Deliberate Release into the Environment
Violations of existing regulations aimed at preventing discharges of oil at sea are frequent in all European seas, resulting in the oiling of seabirds, shellfish, other organisms and the coastline. In general,...
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Distribution of Representative Oligotrophic Bacteria in a Pelagic Marine Environment (Ligurian Sea) by in situ Hybridization with rRNA-targeted, Fluorescently Labelled Oligonucleotides
The distribution of specific autochthonous oligotrophic bacteria in a surface layer (30 m depth) of a pelagic seawater station (DYFAMED, 28 miles off-shore, in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea) was studied b...
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Identification of Culturable Oligotrophic Bacteria within Naturally Occurring Bacterioplankton Communities of the Ligurian Sea by 16S rRNA Sequencing and Probing
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Catabolism of naphthalene and salicylate byPseudomonas fluorescens
Analysis of spent naphthalene growth media ofPseudomonas fluorescens by GC-MS revealed the presence of salicylate. Gentisate 1,2-dioxygenase and pyrocatechol 1,2-dioxygenase were induced by growth on naphthalene,...