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Marinobacter

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Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology

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Many Marinobacter species are efficient degraders of aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as well as acyclic isoprenoid compounds. They are frequently isolated as hydrocarbon-degrading organisms in a wide variety of contaminated marine environments suggesting that they play a key role in mitigation of oil pollution. Studies of their physiology, biochemistry and genomics have enhanced our understanding of the ecophysiological role of Marinobacter spp. in marine contaminated ecosystems and highlighted their biotechnological potential.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to the Genoscope and all researchers involved in the Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus whole-genome sequencing (MarinoScope, coordinator V. Michotey).

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Duran, R. (2010). Marinobacter. In: Timmis, K.N. (eds) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_122

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