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Monitoring of Oil-Degrading Bacteria by Stable Isotope Probing

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Glossary

16S rRNA gene:

A gene that encodes for the ribosomal RNA of the small subunit of the ribosome involved in the translation of messenger RNA sequences into amino acid chains in prokaryotes. This gene is universally present but sufficiently variant to allow comparison among all bacterial taxa. Many molecular tools are based on its phylogenic resolution capacity.

Bacterial taxon (plural: bacterial taxa):

A population, whether named or not, of organisms which are usually inferred to be phylogenetically related and having characters in common which differentiate the unit (e.g., a geographic population, a genus, a family, an order) from other such units. A taxon encompasses all included taxa of lower rank and individual organisms. Today, bacterial taxa are largely defined by their 16S rRNA gene sequence variations.

Biostimulation:

Modification of an environment carried out to stimulate indigenous bacteria capable of degrading pollutants. This can be done by addition of various...

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  1. Centre national de la recherché scientifique, UMR 7621, LOMIC, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer, France

    Caroline Sauret

  2. Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), UMR 7621, LOMIC, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer, France

    Caroline Sauret

  3. CNRS, UMR 7621, LOMIC, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer, France

    Jean-François Ghiglione

  4. UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7621, LOMIC, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer, France

    Jean-François Ghiglione

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  2. Aquatic Ecosystem Protection Research Division, Water Science and Technology Directorate, Environment Canada, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Christian Blaise

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Sauret, C., Ghiglione, JF. (2013). Monitoring of Oil-Degrading Bacteria by Stable Isotope Probing. In: Férard, JF., Blaise, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5704-2_69

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