Survival of a Hydrocarbon-Utilizing Bacterium when Introduced into Native and Foreign Environments.

摘要

A new species of Acinetobacter that is capable of using hexadecane as its sole carbon source was isolated from coastal wetlands in Louisiana. When laboratory grown cultures of the Acinetobacter were re-introduced to an experimental flow-through marsh environment and hexadecane added, the microbe quickly displaced all other bacteria and represented essentially 99% of the microbial community. When the Acinetobacter was added to Mississippi River water supplemented with hexadecane in a chemostat, it was completely displaced after six days.