Overview: Offers readily-reproducible step-by-step laboratory methods.Provides helpful tips and tricks supporting the protocols.Includes troubleshooting advice.Contains practical laboratory guidance to promote This Volume features protocols for investigating the hydrocarbon- and lipid-specific activities of microbes. They include methods for studying chemotaxis, the colonisation of hydrocarbon surfaces, hydrocarbon uptake, respiration, nitrogen fixation, sulphate reduction, membrane stabilisation through cis-trans isomerisation of membrane fatty acids, and the production of biosurfactants and
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