Title: Bacterial diversity within the Arctic Ocean: an assessment of hydrocarbon-degrading taxa
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Principal Investigators Mark Hart, David Green, Ray Leakey, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Lab, Oban, Argyll, UK |
Project goals
The proposed study will advance our understanding of total prokaryotic community abundance and diversity, and also enable the characterization of cultivable hydrocarbon-degrading population, within the arctic environment. The strains from the western Barents Sea and north of Svalbard will then be assessed for their catabolic capability and put forward for systematic description to enhance our understanding of the phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of these ecologically important microbes.
Results
Ongoing: None to date
