ID de revista: PMC184472
PMID: 16348204
Autor principal: Leahy JG
Revista: Appl Environ Microbiol
Año: 1990
Plataforma de Búsqueda: PubMed
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.56.6.1565-1570.1990
Metodología: Experimento
Grupo de estudio: Microorganismos
Abstract
Rates of degradation of radiolabeled hydrocarbons and incidence of bacterial plasmid DNA were investigated in sediment samples collected from the Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico, site of an offshore oil field containing several petroleum platforms. Overall rates of mineralization of [‘4C]hexadecane and [‘4C]phenanthrene measured for sediments were negligible; <1% of the substrate was converted to CO2 in all cases. Low mineralization rates are ascribed to nutrient limitations and to lack of adaptation by microbial communities to hydrocarbon contaminants. Plasmid frequency data for sediment bacteria similarly showed no correlation with proximity to the oil field, but, instead, showed correlation with water column depth at each sampling site. Significant differences between sites were observed for proportion of isolates carrying single or multiple plasmids and mean number of plasmids per isolate, each of which increased as a function of depth.
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