Microbial interactions and implications for oil biodegradation process in mangrove sediments

Adriana Daudt Grativol; Albany Marchetti; Rita M Wetler-Tonini; Thiago M Venancio; Carlos EN Gatts; Fabiano L Thompson; Carlos E Rezende

doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.1398v1

Microbial interactions and implications for oil biodegradation process in mangrove sediments

Adriana Daudt Grativol ¹, Albany Marchetti¹, Rita M Wetler-Tonini¹, Thiago M Venancio², Carlos EN Gatts³, Fabiano L Thompson⁴, Carlos E Rezende¹

1 Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia/ Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2 Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia/ Laboratório de Química e Funções de Proteínas e Peptídeos, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3 Centro de Ciências e Tecnologia/ Laboratório de Ciências Físicas, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4 Instituto de Biologia, CCS, Laboratório de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1398v1

Published: 2015-09-27
Accepted: 2015-09-27

Subject Areas: Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Sciences, Microbiology
Keywords: Oil biodegradation, mangrove, Microbial Resource Management Framework, Estuary

Copyright: © 2015 Daudt Grativol et al.
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Cite this article: Daudt Grativol A, Marchetti A, Wetler-Tonini RM, Venancio TM, Gatts CE, Thompson FL, Rezende CE. 2015. Microbial interactions and implications for oil biodegradation process in mangrove sediments. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1398v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1398v1

Abstract

Mangrove sediment harbors a unique microbiome and is a hospitable environment for the growth of a diverse group of bacteria capable of oil biodegradation. Our goal was to understand bacterial community dynamics from mangrove sediments under heavy-oil contamination stress, and to look for common patterns that may be associated with oil biodegradation is such environments. We tested the hypothesis of a two-phase pattern of petroleum biodegradation, already reported in the literature, where key events in the degradation process take place in the first three weeks after the contamination. Two sample sites with different oil pollution history were compared through T-RFLP analyses and using a pragmatic approach based on the Microbial Resource Management Framework. Our data corroborated the already reported two-phase pattern of oil biodegradation, although the original proposed explanation is questioned, opening up the possibility to consider other plausible hypothesis of microbial interactions as the main drivers of this pattern.

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Supplemental Information

Presence/absence and frequencies of T-RFLP for the four sampling sites considered in this study at each time-interval

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1398v1/supp-1

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