Natural attenuation is an important process for oil spill management in marine environments.
Natural attenuation affects the fate of oil by physical, chemical, and biological processes …

The microorganisms living on plastics called “plastisphere” have been classically described
as very abundant, highly diverse, and very specific when compared to the surrounding …

The Gulf of Mexico Research Consortium was founded in 2015 as a consortium of scientific
research and consulting services, specializing in multidisciplinary projects related to the …

A pyrene-degrading consortium OPK containing Mycolicibacterium strains PO1 and PO2,
Novosphingobium pentaromativorans PY1 and Bacillus subtilis FW1 effectively biodegraded …

The salinity of the upper parts of seashores can become higher than seawater due to
evaporation between tidal inundations. Such hypersaline ecosystems, where the salinity can …

The gut tissue interacts with nutrients and pollutants which can impact gut health. Gut
microbiota is essential to the host health, but is also easily affected by external environment …

Coral reef ecosystems in the Persian Gulf are frequently exposed to crude oil spills. We
investigated benthic bacterial and eukaryote community structures at such coral reef sites …

Petroleum hydrocarbons are being released into the marine environment continuously. They
will undergo weathering and may eventually be biodegraded by bacteria and other …

Thousands of man‐made synthetic chemicals are released to oceans and compose the
anthropogenic dissolved organic carbon (ADOC). Little is known about the effects of this …

Marine microbial communities might be subjected to accidental petroleum spills; however,
some bacteria can degrade it, making these specific bacteria valuable for bioremediation …