Hydrocarbons which forms the bulk of soil and water pollutants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria differs in their susceptibility to microbial attack and degradation. Considering the importance of hydrocarbons in the economy of any nation, a complete knowledge of the hydrocarbo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajob/2021/v12i330164
The bio-stimulation of hydrocarbon degrading microbial population in soil using agricultural wastes was carried out. Top soil (0-25 cm depth) from three points were bulked to form composite soil samples, 6 kg each of the composite soil sample was weighed and transferred into 150...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2019/v32i630104
A large amount of crude oil is spilled annually into the terrestrial and aquatic environments in Nigeria. This tends to upset the natural equilibrium of the marine environment as a microbial habitat. Thus, there is a need to evaluate the effect of exposure to crude oil on bacteri...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/44567
Hydrocarbonoclastic microorganisms elaborate a number of hydrocarbons utilising genes that enable them to use crude oil hydrocarbons as carbon sources. These genes could either be located on the plasmid or chromosome. The primary aim of this study was, therefore, to isolate hydro...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2018/v1i3786
In the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the major anthropogenic source of xenobiotics is petroleum based hydrocarbons. Studies suggest that hydrocarbon degradation genes with potential for bioremediation have a greater abundance at equatorial biomes. Therefore, the primary aim of t...
Introduction: Studies have shown that molecular techniques are better in describing microbial diversity in various ecosystems than cultural techniques. The study was aimed at comparative evaluation of the microbial diversity of benthic and epipellic sediments using cultural and m...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2018/41431
Introduction: Access to potable water is a fundamental human right. However, this is hardly the case in the rural areas of oil producing communities of the Niger Delta. Aim of Study: The primary aim of this study was therefore to evaluate the physicochemical and microbiological q...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2018/v1i11194
An Overview of Cultural, Molecular and Metagenomic Techniques in Description of Microbial Diversity Traditional microbiology based on the culture of microorganisms has been the mainstay of microbiology for over a century and has contributed immensely to what we now know about the...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2017/37951
Antibiotics resistance genes (ARGs) in environmental samples have been implicated in the clinical spread of resistance to antibiotics. This study was therefore aimed at the metagenomic assessment of ARGs from various environmental samples. Benthic, epipellic, estuary and soil sam...
There have been reported cases of incessant crude oil spills leading to severe instances of hydrocarbon pollution in many parts of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in 2011 reported widespread hydrocarbon contamination in Ogonila...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2018/41489