Bacterial community shift in the coastal Gulf of Mexico salt-marsh sediment microcosm in vitro follo

What is it about?

In this study, we examined the responses by the indigenous bacterial communities in salt-marsh sediment microcosms in vitro following treatment with Mississippi Canyon Block 252 oil (MC252). Microcosms were constructed of sediment and seawater collected from Bayou La Batre located in coastal Alabama on the Gulf of Mexico. We used an amplicon pyrosequencing approach on microcosm sediment metagenome targeting the V3–V5 region of the 16S rRNA gene.

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Oil spill, QIIME, Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Pyrosequencing, Biodegradative genes, PCR