Dunaliella Identification Using DNA Fingerprinting Intron-Sizing Method and Species-Specific Oligonucleotides

Sources and migration pathways of methane and light hydrocarbons in the subsurface of the Southern Po River Basin (Northern Italy)

“…The disposition of the methyl groups around the C 6 ring may provide useful insights on the type of the pre-existing carotenoid structure. Sillaro and Dosso Angeli gases are dominated by 1,1,3 trimethylcyclohexane, a common product of degradation of β-carotene (Jiang and Fowler, 1986), a carotenoid typically associated with halotolerant marine algae (e.g., Dunaliella salina and Dunaliella bardawil) (Soto, 2015). This is consistent with the Na-Cl composition of the saline (TDS >60 g/L) waters at Sillaro and Dosso Angeli and the geological information available on the reservoir rock consisting of sandy sediments deposited in a marine-lagoonal environment during the Pliocene.…”