In the spirit of the recent request for more ecological topics, here is a
question that arose in a microbial metabolism course I am now teaching: Is
there any work on the biosurfactants produced by marine hydrocarbon
degraders ( e.g. Alteromonas, Marinobacter, etc.) ? Are the marine
biosurfactants different than the surfactants produced by terrestrial
hydrocarbon degraders ?
Although I am teaching this course and, therefore, supposed to know
everything, I haven't a clue as to the answer to these questions. My
database searches have revealed nothing.
Thanks,
David
David Kafkewitz, Department of Biological Sciences,
Rutgers University, Newark N.J. 07102, U.S.A.
201 648 5865; fax: 201 648 1007
kafkwtz at andromeda.rutgers.edu
