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The distribution and species diversity of aerobic organotrophic bacteria in the Dagang high-temperature oil field (China), which is exploited with water-flooding, have been studied. Twenty-two strains of the most characteristic thermophilic and mesophilic aerobic organotrophic bacteria have been isolated from the oil stratum. It has been found that, in a laboratory, the mesophilic and thermophilic isolates grow in the temperature, pH, and salinity ranges characteristic of the injection well near-bottom zones or of the oil stratum, respectively, and assimilate a wide range of hydrocarbons, fatty acids, lower alcohols, and crude oil, thus exhibiting adaptation to the environment. Using comparative phylogenetic 16S rRNA analysis, the taxonomic affiliation of the isolates has been established. The aerobic microbial community includes gram-positive bacteria with a high and low G+C content of DNA, and γ and β subclasses of Proteobacteria. The thermophilic bacteria belong to the genera Geobacillus and Thermoactinomyces, and the mesophilic strains belong to the genera Bacillus, Micrococcus, Cellulomonas, Pseudomonas, and Acinetobacter. The microbial community of the oil stratum is dominated by known species of the genus Geobacillus (G. subterraneus, G. stearothermophilus, and G. thermoglucosidasius) and a novel species “Geobacillus jurassicus.” A number of novel thermophilic oil-oxidizing bacilli have been isolated.
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Translated from Mikrobiologiya, Vol. 74, No. 3, 2005, pp. 401–409.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Nazina, Sokolova, Shestakova, Grigoryan, Mikhailova, Babich, Lysenko, Tourova, Poltaraus, Qingxian Feng, Fangtian Ni, Belyaev.
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Nazina, T.N., Sokolova, D.S., Shestakova, N.M. et al. The Phylogenetic Diversity of Aerobic Organotrophic Bacteria from the Dagang High-Temperature Oil Field. Microbiology 74, 343–351 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11021-005-0073-0
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