Changing microbial dynamics in the wake of the Macondo blowout
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 11:00
in Earth & Climate
In an article in the September issue of BioScience, Samantha Joye and colleagues describe Gulf of Mexico microbial communities in the aftermath of the 2010 Macondo blowout. The authors describe revealing population-level responses of hydrocarbon-degrading microbes to the unprecedented deepwater oil plume.