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Isolation, Propagation, and Identification of Bacterial Species with Hydrocarbon Metabolizing Properties from Aquatic Habitats
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Isolation and identification of novel microcystin-degrading bacteria
Pathmalal M Manage1, Christine Edwards, Brajesh K Singh
1Department of Zoology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|September 8, 2009
Abstract:
Of 31 freshwater bacterial isolates screened using the Biolog MT2 assay to determine their metabolism of the microcystin LR, 10 were positive. Phylogenetic analysis (16S rRNA) identified them as Arthrobacter spp., Brevibacterium sp., and Rhodococcus sp. This is the first report of microcystin degraders that do not belong to the Proteobacteria.

