Sheen Screen, a Miniaturized Most-Probable-Number Method for Enumeration of Oil-Degrading Microorganisms
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 56 (12), 3895-3896
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.56.12.3895-3896.1990
Abstract
Sheen Screen is a miniaturized method for enumerating oil-degrading microorganisms. The technique relies on the ability of oil-degrading microorganisms to emulsify oil when provided as a sole carbon source in 24-well tissue culture plates. Sediments that actively respire hydrocarbons have high numbers of Sheen Screen-positive microorganisms. ImagesThis publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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