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Several marine hydrocarbon-degrading strains in the class Alphaproteobacteria are reported. Among them, Kordiimonas gwangyangensis, Tranquillimonas alkanivorans, Thalassospira tepidiphila, Novosphingobium pentaromativorans, and Sphingomonas sp. KH3–2 are marine hydrocarbon degraders belonging to Kordiimonadales (family Kordiimonadaceae), Rhodobacterales, Rhodospirillales (family Rhodospirillaceae), and Sphingomonadales (family Sphingomonadaceae), respectively. A recent comparative genomic study of three genera from the marine Roseobacter clade revealed numerous pathways for the catabolism of structurally diverse aromatic substrates.
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Kim, S.J., Kwon, K.K. (2010). Marine, Hydrocarbon-Degrading Alphaproteobacteria. In: Timmis, K.N. (eds) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_120
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