TY - JOUR AU - De Domenico , Maria AU - Lo Giudice , Angelina AU - Michaud , Luigi AU - Saitta , Marcello AU - Bruni , Vivia PY - 2004/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Diesel oil and PCB-degrading psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from Antarctic seawaters (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea) JF - Polar Research JA - POLAR VL - 23 IS - 2 SE - Research/review articles DO - 10.3402/polar.v23i2.6275 UR - https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2082 SP - 141-146 AB - Fifty-seven Antarctic marine bacteria were examined for their ability to degrade commercial diesel oil as the sole organic substrate at both 4 °C and 20 °C. Based on the preliminary screening, two isolates (B11 and B15) with high capacity to degrade diesel oil were selected and their biodegradation effi ciency was quantifi ed by gas chromatographic analysis. As expected for psychrotrophs, diesel oil biodegradation was slower at 4 °C than at 20 °C. The two strains also mineralized the C28 n-paraffi n octacosane at 20 °C and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at 4 °C and 20 °C. ER -