Crude oil biodegradation by synthetic microbial consortia enriched from marine sediments
Marine sediments were collected from the Liao River Estuary, Bohai Sea, and Yellow Sea, and three synthetic microbial consortia (WY, DH, and PQ) capable of crude oil degradation were enriched from the sediments, respectively, under laboratory conditions. Microbial community dynamics were analyzed at 0, 90, 180, 270, and 360 days using the high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA amplicons.