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A computational model for biofilm-based microbial fuel cells

scientific article published on 29 May 2007

A preliminary and qualitative study of resource ratio theory to nitrifying lab-scale bioreactors.

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

A single chamber packed bed microbial fuel cell biosensor for measuring organic content of wastewater

scientific article published in January 2009

A single-chamber microbial fuel cell as a biosensor for wastewaters

scientific article published on 24 January 2009

A stable isotope titration method to determine the contribution of acetate disproportionation and carbon dioxide reduction to methanogenesis

scientific article published on 11 August 2005

Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

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Acidophilic microbial communities associated with a natural, biodegraded hydrocarbon seepage.

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Adaptation of sympatric Achromatium spp. to different redox conditions as a mechanism for coexistence of functionally similar sulphur bacteria

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Agreement between theory and measurement in quantification of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

scientific article published in October 2005

An Evaluation of the Performance and Economics of Membranes and Separators in Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells Treating Domestic Wastewater.

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

An Unexpectedly Broad Thermal and Salinity-Tolerant Estuarine Methanogen Community

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Anodes Stimulate Anaerobic Toluene Degradation via Sulfur Cycling in Marine Sediments.

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Anomalous energy yields in thermodynamic calculations: importance of accounting for pH-dependent organic acid speciation

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Bacterial community dynamics and hydrocarbon degradation during a field-scale evaluation of bioremediation on a mudflat beach contaminated with buried oil.

scientific article published in May 2004

Biodegradation and adsorption of C1- and C2-phenanthrenes and C1- and C2-dibenzothiophenes in the presence of clay minerals: effect on forensic diagnostic ratios.

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Biodegradation of crude oil saturated fraction supported on clays

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Biofuel components change the ecology of bacterial volatile petroleum hydrocarbon degradation in aerobic sandy soil.

scientific article published on 29 November 2012

Biogenic methane production in formation waters from a large gas field in the North Sea.

scientific article published on 21 March 2009

Biological activity in the deep subsurface and the origin of heavy oil.

scientific article published on November 2003

Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants in marine habitats.

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Bridging spatially segregated redox zones with a microbial electrochemical snorkel triggers biogeochemical cycles in oil-contaminated River Tyne (UK) sediments.

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Characterization of a carbofuran-degrading bacterium and investigation of the role of plasmids in catabolism of the insecticide carbofuran

scientific article published in January 1992

Comparative metagenomics of hydrocarbon and methane seeps of the Gulf of Mexico.

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Complementary Microorganisms in Highly Corrosive Biofilms from an Offshore Oil Production Facility.

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

Compositional changes of crude oil SARA fractions due to biodegradation and adsorption on colloidal support such as clays using Iatroscan.

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of complex mixtures of anaerobic bacterial metabolites of petroleum hydrocarbons

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Correlations between in situ denitrification activity and nir-gene abundances in pristine and impacted prairie streams

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Crude-oil biodegradation via methanogenesis in subsurface petroleum reservoirs

scientific article published on 12 December 2007

Damage to offshore production facilities by corrosive microbial biofilms.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Development of a rapid assay for determining the relative abundance of bacteria

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Distribution of thermophilic endospores in a temperate estuary indicate that dispersal history structures sediment microbial communities.

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Ecology and metagenomics of soil microorganisms

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

Effect of modified montmorillonites on the biodegradation and adsorption of biomarkers such as hopanes, steranes and diasteranes

scientific article published on 08 June 2013

Effect of sludge age on the bacterial diversity of bench scale sequencing batch reactors.

scientific article published in April 2009

Effect of wastewater composition on archaeal population diversity.

scientific article published in April 2005

Effects of soil improvement treatments on bacterial community structure and soil processes in an upland grassland soil

scientific article published in October 2003

Electricity generation from cysteine in a microbial fuel cell.

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Electrobioremediation of oil spills.

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Evaluation of hydrolysis and fermentation rates in microbial fuel cells

scientific article published on 24 February 2011

Factors affecting current production in microbial fuel cells using different industrial wastewaters

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Fuel cell power generation from marine sediments: Investigation of cathode materials

High Throughput Biodegradation-Screening Test To Prioritize and Evaluate Chemical Biodegradability

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How to access and exploit natural resources sustainably: petroleum biotechnology.

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Identification of novel bacterial lineages as active members of microbial populations in a freshwater sediment using a rapid RNA extraction procedure and RT-PCR.

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Improving PCR efficiency for accurate quantification of 16S rRNA genes

scientific article published on 22 March 2013

Kinetic parameters for nutrient enhanced crude oil biodegradation in intertidal marine sediments.

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Life cycle, techno-economic and dynamic simulation assessment of bioelectrochemical systems: A case of formic acid synthesis

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Life in the slow lane; biogeochemistry of biodegraded petroleum containing reservoirs and implications for energy recovery and carbon management

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Linking genetic identity and function in communities of uncultured bacteria.

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Low-dissolved-oxygen nitrifying systems exploit ammonia-oxidizing bacteria with unusually high yields.

scientific article published on 16 September 2011

MIxS-HCR: a MIxS extension defining a minimal information standard for sequence data from environments pertaining to hydrocarbon resources.

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Massive dominance of Epsilonproteobacteria in formation waters from a Canadian oil sands reservoir containing severely biodegraded oil

scientific article (publication date: February 2012)

Mathematical model for microbial fuel cells with anodic biofilms and anaerobic digestion.

scientific article published in January 2008

Methods for Recovery of Microorganisms and Intact Microbial Polar Lipids from Oil−Water Mixtures: Laboratory Experiments and Natural Well-Head Fluids

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Microbial Biotechnology 2020; microbiology of fossil fuel resources.

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Microbial Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology: A Decade of Ribosomal RNA Analysis of Uncultivated Microorganisms

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Microbial and Isotopic Evidence for Methane Cycling in Hydrocarbon-Containing Groundwater from the Pennsylvania Region

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Microbial fuel cells meet with external resistance

scientific article published on 20 November 2010

Microbial landscapes: new paths to biofilm research.

scientific article published in January 2007

Modeling taxa-abundance distributions in microbial communities using environmental sequence data

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Neutral assembly of bacterial communities

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Nitrification in hybrid bioreactors treating simulated domestic wastewater

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Occurrence and activity of Archaea in aerated activated sludge wastewater treatment plants

scientific article published in March 2002

On the repeatability and reproducibility of experimental two-chambered microbial fuel cells

Open circuit versus closed circuit enrichment of anodic biofilms in MFC: effect on performance and anodic communities

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Quantification of syntrophic acetate-oxidizing microbial communities in biogas processes.

scientific article published on 21 March 2011

Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure.

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Re-evaluation of dioxygenase gene phylogeny for the development and validation of a quantitative assay for environmental aromatic hydrocarbon degraders.

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Response of Archaeal communities in beach sediments to spilled oil and bioremediation.

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Response of Methanogens in Arctic Sediments to Temperature and Methanogenic Substrate Availability

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Standard inocula preparations reduce the bacterial diversity and reliability of regulatory biodegradation tests.

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

Succession in the petroleum reservoir microbiome through an oil field production lifecycle

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Survival of Desulfotomaculum spores from estuarine sediments after serial autoclaving and high-temperature exposure

scientific article published on 17 March 2015

Taxa-area relationships for microbes: the unsampled and the unseen.

scientific article published in July 2006

Thaumarchaeotes abundant in refinery nitrifying sludges express amoA but are not obligate autotrophic ammonia oxidizers

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The biogeographical distribution of closely related freshwater sediment bacteria is determined by environmental selection

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The effect of flavin electron shuttles in microbial fuel cells current production

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

The impact of sludge amendment on gas dynamics in an upland soil: monitored by membrane inlet mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 08 December 2004

The metabolic pathways and environmental controls of hydrocarbon biodegradation in marine ecosystems

scientific article published on 4 September 2014

The microbiology of hydrocarbon degradation in subsurface petroleum reservoirs: perspectives and prospects.

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The phylogeny of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria as determined by analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences.

scientific article published in June 1993

The thermodynamic landscape of methanogenic PAH degradation

scientific article (publication date: September 2009)

Thermodynamic constraints on methanogenic crude oil biodegradation.

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Use of combined microautoradiography and fluorescence in situ hybridization to determine carbon metabolism in mixed natural communities of uncultured bacteria from the genus Achromatium.

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Volatile hydrocarbons inhibit methanogenic crude oil degradation

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What is the extent of prokaryotic diversity?

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Workshop to develop deep-life continental scientific drilling projects

scientific article published in 2015