Over the past century, the demand for petroleum products has increased rapidly, leading to
higher oil extraction, processing and transportation, which result in numerous oil spills in …

Frequent marine oil spills have led to increasingly serious oil pollution along shorelines.
Microbial remediation has become a research hotspot of intertidal oil pollution remediation …

Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout resulted in the deposition to the seafloor of
up to 4.9% of 200 million gallons of oil released into the Gulf of Mexico. The petroleum …

Chennai, a coastal city in India with a population of over 7 million people, was impacted by a
major oil spill on January 28th 2017. The spill occurred when two cargo ships collided about …

Understanding bacterial community dynamics as a result of an oil spill is important for
predicting the fate of oil released to the environment and developing bioremediation …

The biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by marine-derived fungi
was reported in this work. Marine-derived fungi (Trichoderma harzianum CBMAI 1677 …

Bioaugmentation can occur either by the use of a single strain microorganism or between
different microorganisms (fungi and bacteria). In the present study, we carefully evaluated …

Nurdles, the pre-production plastic pellets, are a major source of plastic pollution in marine
environments due to unregulated spills during production and transportation. We analyzed …

Elucidating the driving forces behind the temporal dynamics of abundant and rare microbes
is essential for understanding the assembly and succession of microbial communities. Here …

Abstract Over the Texas-Louisiana Shelf in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, the eutrophic, fresh
Mississippi/Atchafalaya river plume isolates saltier waters below, supporting the formation of …