Bioremediation is an environmental sustainable and cost-effective technology for the
cleanup of hydrocarbon-polluted soils and coasts. In spite of that longer times are usually …

Hundreds of millions of litres of petroleum enter the environment from both natural and
anthropogenic sources every year. The input from natural marine oil seeps alone would be …

Twenty-five crude-oil-degrading bacteria were isolated from oil-contaminated sites in the
Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Based on a high growth rate on crude oil and on …

Bioremediation of hydrocarbon pollutants is advantageous owing to the cost-effectiveness of
the technology and the ubiquity of hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms in the soil. Soil …

Ochrobactrum sp. N1, Brevibacillus parabrevis N2, B. parabrevis N3 and B. parabrevis N4
were selected when preparing a mixed bacterial consortium based on the efficiency of crude …

The bacterial communities in two different shoreline matrices, rocks and sand, from the
Costa da Morte, northwestern Spain, were investigated 12 months after being affected by the …

In this report, the diversity of oil-degrading bacteria and alkB gene was surveyed in the
seawater around Xiamen Island. Forty-four isolates unique in 16S rRNA sequence were …

Aims: To investigate the petroleum hydrocarbon (HC)‐degrading potential of indigenous
micro‐organisms in a sandy Mediterranean coast, accidentally contaminated with petroleum …

A real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to quantify the proportion of
microorganisms containing alkane monooxygenase was developed and used to follow …

With knowledge on microbial composition and diversity, investigation of within-community
interactions is a further step to elucidate microbial ecological functions, such as the …