Assessment of the petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation potential of the sediment microbial community from an urban fringing tidal marsh of Northern New England.
Sinéad M. Ní Chadhain, Jarett L. Miller, John P. Dustin, Jeff P. Trethewey, Stephen H. Jones, Loren A. Launen
The paper assesses how dodecane, n-hexane, and gasoline affect microbial diversity in tidal marsh sediments, finding that alkane exposure reduces functional and phylogenetic diversity in an alkane-specific manner.
bioRxiv · Mar 10, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology