An effort to understand and improve the anaerobic biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons: A literature review

B Wartell, M Boufadel, L Rodriguez-Freire - International Biodeterioration & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oil and fuel spills occur regularly in terrestrial and aquatic environments and substances
such as crude oil can contain many compounds that are highly resistant to degradation …

New frontiers of anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation in the multi-omics era

K Laczi, Á Erdeiné Kis, Á Szilágyi… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The accumulation of petroleum hydrocarbons in the environment substantially endangers
terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Many microbial strains have been recognized to utilize …

Auxiliary metabolic gene functions in pelagic and benthic viruses of the Baltic Sea

B Heyerhoff, B Engelen, C Bunse - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine microbial communities are facing various ecosystem fluctuations (eg, temperature,
organic matter concentration, salinity, or redox regimes) and thus have to be highly adaptive …

[HTML][HTML] Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes

BJ Fremin, AS Bhatt, NC Kyrpides, A Sengupta… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Small genes (< 150 nucleotides) have been systematically overlooked in phage
genomes. We employ a large-scale comparative genomics approach to predict> 40,000 …

Genome-resolved analyses show an extensive diversification in key aerobic hydrocarbon-degrading enzymes across bacteria and archaea

MR Somee, MA Amoozegar, SMM Dastgheib… - Bmc Genomics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Hydrocarbons (HCs) are organic compounds composed solely of
carbon and hydrogen that are mainly accumulated in oil reservoirs. As the introduction of all …

Identification of the bacterial community that degrades phenanthrene sorbed to polystyrene nanoplastics using DNA-based stable isotope probing

S Summers, MS Bin-Hudari, C Magill, T Henry… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In the Anthropocene, plastic pollution has become a new environmental biotope, the so-
called plastisphere. In the oceans, nano-and micro-sized plastics are omnipresent and …

Unravelling the diversity of magnetotactic bacteria through analysis of open genomic databases

M Uzun, L Alekseeva, M Krutkina, V Koziaeva… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are prokaryotes that possess genes for the synthesis of
membrane-bounded crystals of magnetite or greigite, called magnetosomes. Despite over …

Distinct microbial community along the chronic oil pollution continuum of the Persian Gulf converge with oil spill accidents

M Rezaei Somee, SMM Dastgheib, M Shavandi… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Persian Gulf, hosting ca. 48% of the world's oil reserves, has been chronically
exposed to natural oil seepage. Oil spill studies show a shift in microbial community …

A review on biotechnological approaches applied for marine hydrocarbon spills remediation

F Rahmati, B Asgari Lajayer, N Shadfar… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increasing demand for petroleum products generates needs for innovative and reliable
methods for cleaning up crude oil spills. Annually, several oil spills occur around the world …

Habitat specificity modulates the bacterial biogeographic patterns in the Southern Ocean

M Delleuze, G Schwob, J Orlando… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Conceptual biogeographic frameworks have proposed that the relative contribution of
environmental and geographical factors on microbial distribution depends on several …