Natural sunlight shapes crude oil-degradingbacterial communities in northern Gulf of Mexico surface waters

Following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill in 2010, an enormous amount of oil was observed in the deep and surface waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Surface waters are characterized by intense sunlight and high temperature during summer. While the oil-degrading bacterial communities in the dee...

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Main Authors: Hernando P Bacosa, Zhanfei eLiu, Deana L Erdner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01325/full