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Densely Populated Water Droplets in Heavy-Oil Seeps

Published:2020-05-19 Issue:11 Volume:86 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Pannekens M.¹,Voskuhl L.¹,Meier A.¹,Müller H.¹,Haque S.²,Frösler J.¹,Brauer V. S.¹,Meckenstock R. U.¹

Affiliation:

1. Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

2. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract

Our results confirmed that small water droplets in oil are densely populated microhabitats containing active microbial communities. Since these microhabitats occurred in three tested oil seeps which are located thousands of kilometers away from each other, such populated water droplets might be a generic trait of biodegraded oil reservoirs and might be involved in the overall oil degradation process. Microbial degradation might thus also take place in water pockets in the oil-bearing oil legs of the reservoir rock rather than only at the oil-water transition zone.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.00164-20

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