Table 1

Petroleum hydrocarbon degrading Bacteria

Petroleum hydrocarbon componentsBacterial speciesReferences
AliphaticsAcinetobacter sp.Foght (2008) 
Alcanivorax sp.Brooijmans, Pastink, and Siezen (2009) 
Azoarcus sp.Widdel and Rabus (2001) 
Bacillus sp.Das and Mukherjee (2007) 
Dietzia sp.Wang et al. (2011) 
Desulfosarcina sp. and Desulfococcus sp.Jaekel et al. (2013) 
Geobacillus thermodenitrificanAbbasian et al. (2015) 
Gordonia sihwensisBrown, Gunasekera, Striebich, and Ruiz (2016) 
Marinobacter sp.Yakimov, Timmis, and Golyshin (2007) 
Micrococcus sp.Roy, Hens, Biswas, Biswas, and Kumar (2002) 
Ochrobactrum sp.Varjani et al. (2015) 
Oleispira sp.Brooijmans et al. (2009) 
Oleispira antarcticaYakimov et al. (2007) 
Pseudomonas sp.Sajna et al. (2015), Varjani et al. (2015) 
Rhodococcus sp.Abbasian et al. (2015) 
Rhodococcus ruberZhukov, Murygina, and Kalyuzhnyi (2007) 
Stenotrophomonas sp.Varjani et al. (2015) 
AromaticsAchromobacter insolitusJanbandhu and Fulekar (2011) 
Achromobacter xylosoxidansLi, Tian, Hao, and Ma (2020) 
Acinetobacter sp.Batista, Mounteer, Amorim, and Totola (2006) 
Aeribacillus pallidusMnif, Sayadi, and Chamkha (2014) 
Archaeoglobus fulgidus and Aromatoleum aromaticumWilkes et al. (2016) 
Bacillus sp.Janbandhu and Fulekar (2011) 
Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus mojavensisEskandari et al. (2017) 
Cycloclasticus sp.Kasai, Kishira, and Harayama (2002) 
Halomonas sp.Widdel and Rabus (2001) 
Mycobacterium cosmeticumZhang, Zhang, Cheng, Yao, and Chen (2013) 
Neptunomonas naphthovoranHedlund, Geiselbrecht, Bair, and Staley (1999) 
Novosphingobium sp.Ghosal, Ghosh, Dutta, and Ahn (2016) 
Phanaerochaete chrysporiumSalleh et al. (2003) 
Pseudomonas aeruginosaDas and Mukherjee (2007) 
Pseudomonas sp.Widdel and Rabus (2001) 
Rhodococcus sp.Salleh et al. (2003) 
Sphingomonas sp. and Sphingobium sp.Ghosal et al. (2016) 
ResinsMoraxella sp.Chandra et al. (2013) 
Pseudomonas aeruginosaMa et al. (2020) 
AsphaltenesBacillus sp. and Citrobacter sp. and Enterobacter sp.Jahromi, Fazaelipoor, Ayatollahi, and Niazi (2014) 
Staphylococcus sp.Jahromi et al. (2014) 

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