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ArticleMicroorganisms2018

Stable Isotope and Metagenomic Profiling of a Methanogenic Naphthalene-Degrading Enrichment Culture.

Courtney R A Toth, Carolina Berdugo-Clavijo, Corynne M O'Farrell, Gareth M Jones, Andriy Sheremet, Peter F Dunfield, Lisa M Gieg

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Article in Microorganisms, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Courtney R A TothDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. courtney.toth@utoronto.ca.
Carolina Berdugo-ClavijoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. cberdugo@ucalgary.ca.
Corynne M O'FarrellDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. cmofarre@ucalgary.ca.
Gareth M JonesDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. gmjones@ucalgary.ca.
Andriy SheremetDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. andriy.sheremet@ucalgary.ca.
Peter F DunfieldDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. pfdunfie@ucalgary.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-9319-4697
Lisa M GiegDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. lmgieg@ucalgary.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-6110-7803
University of Calgary · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) such as naphthalene are widespread, recalcitrant pollutants in anoxic and methanogenic environments. A mechanism catalyzing PAH activation under methanogenic conditions has yet to be discovered, and the microbial communities coordinating their metabolism are largely unknown. This is primarily due to the difficulty of cultivating PAH degraders, requiring lengthy incubations to yield sufficient biomass for biochemical analysis. Here, we sought to characterize a new methanogenic naphthalene-degrading enrichment culture using DNA-based stable isotope probing (SIP) and metagenomic analyses. 16S rRNA gene sequencing of fractionated DNA pinpointed an unclassified

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anaerobic degradationbioremediationmetagenomicsmethanogenesisnaphthalenepolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsstable isotope probing

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PMID29996505
PMCPMC6164631
OpenAlexW2876758001

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