Pollution of soil and water environments by crude oil has been, and is still today, an
important problem. Crude oil is a complex mixture of thousands of compounds. Among them …

Hundreds of millions of litres of petroleum enter the environment from both natural and
anthropogenic sources every year. The input from natural marine oil seeps alone would be …

To improve the knowledge about the biogeographic patterns of bacteria in soils
contaminated with crude oil, we studied the effects of local geochemical properties and …

Microplastics pollution poses a new threat to the environment of intertidal zone. The sea
forest, mangrove, has been polluted by a large number of plastic debris worldwide. To fill the …

Over the past few years, a new and ecophysiologically unusual group of marine
hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria–the obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (OHCB)–has …

During the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift in our understanding of the roles of
intracellular lipid droplets (LDs). New genetic, biochemical and imaging technologies have …

Crude oil has been part of the marine environment for millions of years, and microbes that
use its rich source of energy and carbon are found in seawater, sediments, and shorelines …

Knowledge in microbiology is growing exponentially through the determination of genomic
sequences of hundreds of microorganisms and the invention of new technologies such as …

The massive influx of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon (DWH)
disaster triggered dramatic microbial community shifts in surface oil slick and deep plume …

Degradation of alkanes is a widespread phenomenon in nature, and numerous
microorganisms, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic, capable of utilizing these substrates as a …