Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

Amount

$725,195.00

Award Date

7/20/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

While the mechanisms and genetics of aerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation have been explored for decades, very little is known about the comparable activities of these environmentally important processes in anaerobic bacteria, which are difficult to isolate