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Hydrocarbons originate through biological and geochemical routes, and can be classified as aliphatic and aromatic compounds. Hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms can break recalcitrant carbon-hydrogen bonds through their innate metabolisms, diverse physiologies, and biocatalytic abilities, either aerobically or anaerobically using electron acceptors such as oxygen, sulfate, nitrate, or ferric iron. Physiological, genomic, biochemical, catalytic abilities, and ecological diversities of microbial communities, which could solely degrade aromatic hydrocarbons and/or concomitantly utilize them as carbon and energy sources, are explained through this chapter adding a note upon opposite bioremediation applications. |
