Bacterial communities from shoreline environments (costa da morte, northwestern Spain) affected by the prestige oil spill.

ABSTRACT: The bacterial communities in two different shoreline matrices, rocks and sand, from the Costa da Morte, northwestern Spain, were investigated 12 months after being affected by the Prestige oil spill. Culture-based and culture-independent approaches were used to compare the bacterial diversity present in these environments with that at a nonoiled site. A long-term effect of fuel on the microbial communities in the oiled sand and rock was suggested by the higher proportion of alkane and polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) degraders and the differences in denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis patterns compared with those of the reference site. Members of the classes Alphaproteobacteria and Actinobacteria were the prevailing groups of bacteria detected in both matrices, although the sand bacteria

SUBMITTER: Alonso-Gutierrez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2687268 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature