Hydrocarbon Degradation by Filamentous Marine Higher Fungi

Kirk, Paul W.; Gordon, Andrew S.

doi:10.1080/00275514.1988.12025723

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“…Different strains of Lulworthiales, isolated from marine environment and exposed to various grade of oil pollution, were able to use crude oil (Kirk and Gordon, 1988). Nevertheless Lulworthiales sp.…”

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The culturable mycobiota of a Mediterranean marine site after an oil spill: isolation, identification and potential application in bioremediation

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Prigione

Spina

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

105

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Bioremediation of marine environment could be the response to oil spills threats. In the present study the fungal community from a Mediterranean marine site chronically interested by oil spills was investigated. Sixty-seven taxa were isolated from water sample and 17 from sediments; for many of the identified species is the first report in seawater and sediments, respectively. The growth of 25 % of the fungal isolates was stimulated by crude oil as sole carbon source. Four strains were selected to screen hydrocarbons degradation using the 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol (DCPIP) colorimetric assay. A. terreus MUT 271, T. harzianum MUT 290 and P. citreonigrum MUT 267 displayed a high decolorization percentage (DP ≥ 68 %). A. terreus displayed also the highest decreases of hydrocarbons compounds (up to 40 %) quantified by gas-chromatography analysis.These results suggest that the selected fungi could represent potential bioremediation agents with strong crude oil degradative capabilities.

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The culturable mycobiota of a Mediterranean marine site after an oil spill: isolation, identification and potential application in bioremediation

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Spina

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Marine fungi are considered active microorganisms in the decomposition of organic compounds -mainly chitin, cellulose and hydrocarbon both in sand and seawater (Kohlmeyer & Kohlmeyer 1979, Kirk & Gordon 1988, MooreLandecker 1996, Zakaria et al 2011). According to Morrison-Gardiner (2002), 800 -1000 taxa of marine fungi have been identified and classified as geofungi (a fungi from terrestrial origins that has adapted to life in marine environments).…”

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Distribution and abundance of microflora in sandy beaches on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea

Mudryk

Perliński

Skórczewski

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Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

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The abundance of actinomycetes, filamentous fungi and yeasts in the marine epipsammon habitat and their spatial distribution were studied with conventional plating techniques in two marine beaches (Ustka and Czołpino, southern Baltic Sea) which are characterized by different anthropic pressure levels. Actinomycetes constituted the predominant group of studied microorganisms, while the least numerous were yeasts in the sand of both studied beaches. On both of the beaches researched in this study, the amounts of accumulated actinomycetales, fungi and yeasts were similar. When analyzing the distribution of the microflora along the horizontal beach profiles we found significant differences. In the sand collected along the profile perpendicular to the shoreline in Ustka and Czołpino beaches, the highest numbers of actinomycetes, filamentous fungi and yeasts were noted in the samples from the dune and the lowest in those from the subtidal zone and waterline. Generally, higher numbers of studied microorganisms were observed in the surface * Corresponding author e-mail: pperlinski@apsl.edu.pl than in the subsurface sand layer. The occurrence of actinomycetes, filamentous fungi and yeasts showed considerable seasonal variation.

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“…As the toxicity reduces, other groups of fungi such as ascomycetes can start to colonise an area, and the presence of hyphomycetes will proportionately reduce. Hyphomycetes are known to survive in xeric environments (Gunde-Cimerman et al 2003), some can help degrade petroleum (Kirk et Gordon 1988), while others are pathogenic to rotifers and tardigrades in Antarctic lakes (McInnes 2003) or are nematophagous (Gray et al 1982). The numbers of taxa of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant fungi recorded on Beaufort Island were 9 and 5, respectively.…”

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Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic

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Smykla²,

Ming³

et al. 2013

Czech Polar Rep.

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This paper presents the results of a biodiversity study of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island (Ross Sea, continental Antarctic). During the 2004/05 austral summer, we sampled a wide range of soil habitats from an abandoned penguin rookeries to examine the biodiversity of soil microfungi. Beaufort Island is predominantly ice and snow covered, isolated, difficult to access and known to have been visited only infrequently. Warcup's soil plating method was used for fungal cultivation. A total of ten fungal taxa were isolated, consisting of seven ascomycetes, two anamorphic fungi and one yeast. In terms of their thermal classes, a total of four psychrophilic, five psychrotolerant and 1 mesophilic fungi were isolated. Thelebolus microsporus, Geomyces sp. and Thelebolus sp. were the most common isolated fungi. Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) and 18S rDNA sequences were obtained from 17 fungal isolates, confirming their identification as Thelebolus microsporus, Thelebolus sp., Phoma herbarum and Geomyces sp.

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Hydrocarbon Degradation by Filamentous Marine Higher Fungi

Cited by 30 publications

References 16 publications

The culturable mycobiota of a Mediterranean marine site after an oil spill: isolation, identification and potential application in bioremediation

The culturable mycobiota of a Mediterranean marine site after an oil spill: isolation, identification and potential application in bioremediation

Distribution and abundance of microflora in sandy beaches on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea

Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic

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