Microbial community structure and distribution characteristics in oil contaminated soil

Molecular biology methods such as PCR-DGGE combined with phylogenetic analysis were used for the soil microbial community structure and distribution profiling.Relationship of microbial community structure and distribution differed in a typical oil contaminated field was studied.Results showed that soil oil content was the main factor to the difference of microbial community structure similarity.The similarity index of microbial community structure and oil content had a significantly negative correlation.The contaminated soil microorganism genus had an uneven distribution.Thus,soil pollution had obvious stress and differentiation for microbial community structure and species relationship.Dominant species in oil contaminated soil were identified as Gulosibacter,Halomonas,Petrobacter,Methylocystis,and Pseudoalteromonas.The findings provide a basis for understanding the microbial characteristics of oil contaminated soil.