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ArticleScientific reports2019

Oil-Spill Triggered Shift in Indigenous Microbial Structure and Functional Dynamics in Different Marine Environmental Matrices.

C S Neethu, C Saravanakumar, R Purvaja, R S Robin, R Ramesh

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

C S NeethuNational Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Chennai, 600025, India.
C SaravanakumarNational Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Chennai, 600025, India. cpshravan@gmail.com.
R PurvajaNational Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Chennai, 600025, India. purvaja.ramachandran@gmail.com.
R S RobinNational Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Chennai, 600025, India.
R RameshNational Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Chennai, 600025, India. rramesh@ncscm.res.in.
National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management · INMinistry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial degradation has long been recognized as the key rescue mechanism in shaping the oil polluted marine environments and the role of indigenous populations or their functional genomics have never been explored from Indian marine environments, post an oil spill event. In the current study, high throughput metagenomic analysis, PLFA profiling and mass spectrophotometric analysis was performed in combination with metabolomics to capture signature variations among the microbial communities in sediment, water and laboratory enrichments. Contrary to the previous reports, the bloom of Pseudomonadales (specifically genus Acinetobacter) in oiled sediment and Methylococcales in oiled water outnumbered the relative abundance of Alcanivorax in response to hydrocarbon contamination. Overall enhancement of xenobiotic degradation was suggested by metabolomic analysis in sediment and water post the spill event and varying quantitative assemblage of enzymes were found to be involved in hydrocarbon utilization. Laboratory enrichments revealed the competitive advantage of sediment communities over the water communities although unique taxa belonging to the later were also found to be enriched under in vitro conditions. Simultaneous analysis of sediment and water in the study provided explicit evidences on existence of differential microbial community dynamics, offering insight into possibilities of formulating nature identical solutions for hydrocarbon pollution.

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Environmental MicrobiologyPetroleum PollutionBacteriaChemical PhenomenaDNA, RibosomalFatty AcidsGeographyGeologic SedimentsNaphthalenesPhylogenyPolycyclic Aromatic HydrocarbonsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSeawaterShipsDNA, RibosomalFatty AcidsnaphthaleneNaphthalenesPolycyclic Aromatic HydrocarbonsRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID30718727
PMCPMC6361881
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