Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria found tightly associated with the 50-70 μm cell-size population of eukaryotic phytoplankton in surface waters of a Northeast Atlantic region

• Main Authors: Thompson, Haydn Frank, Summers, Stephen, Yuecel, Raif, Gutierrez, Tony
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Hydrocarbonoclastic Bacteria
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145991
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The surface of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton can harbour communities of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria; however, this algal-bacterial association has, hitherto, been only examined with non-axenic laboratory cultures of micro-algae. In this study, we isolated an operationally-defined community of p...