Article
Oleibacter marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium that degrades petroleum aliphatic hydrocarbons in a tropical marine environment.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Feb 2011
Teramoto Maki, Ohuchi Motoyuki, Hatmanti Ariani, Darmayati Yeti, Widyastuti Yantyati, Harayama Shigeaki, Fukunaga Yukiyo
Abstract excerpt
Three Gram-negative, motile, mesophilic, aerobic, rod-shaped bacterial strains, designated 2O1(T), 1O14 and 1O18, were isolated from Indonesian seawater after enrichment with crude oil and a continuous supply of supplemented seawater. The strains exhibited high n-alkane-degrading activity, which...
Topics
- Alkanes
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Composition
- DNA, Bacterial
- Fatty Acids
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oceanospirillaceae
- Petroleum
- Phenotype
- Phospholipids
- Phylogeny
- Quinones
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Seawater
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Water Microbiology