A combination of metagenomics and stable isotope probing provides new insight into the community-wide degradation of hydrocarbons released during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Mackelprang, R., Mason, O. Marine microbiology: Community clean up. Nat Microbiol 1, 16102 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.102
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