Exploring the diversity of bacterial communities in sediments of urban mangrove forests

NC Marcial Gomes, LR Borges… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Municipal sewage, urban runoff and accidental oil spills are common sources of pollutants in
urban mangrove forests and may have drastic effects on the microbial communities …

Investigation of alkane biodegradation using the microtiter plate method and correlation between biofilm formation, biosurfactant production and crude oil …

H Mehdi, E Giti - International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2008 - Elsevier
Among 25 crude oil-degrading bacteria isolated from a marine environment, four strains,
which grew well on crude oil, were selected for more study. All the four isolated had …

A refinery sludge deposition site: presence of nahH and alkJ genes and crude oil biodegradation ability of bacterial isolates

N Arvanitis, EA Katsifas, KI Chalkou, C Meintanis… - Biotechnology …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract 204 bacterial isolates from four Greek refinery sludge deposition sites were
investigated for the presence of nah H and alk J genes encoding key enzymes of both …