Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) producing and oil degrading bacteria isolated from the northern Gulf of Mexico

• Hernando P. Bacosa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hernando P. Bacosa, Manoj Kamalanathan, Meng-Hsuen Chiu, Wei-Chun Chin, Antonietta Quigg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hpbacosa@tamug.edu

  Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4138-3987

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• Manoj Kamalanathan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hernando P. Bacosa, Manoj Kamalanathan, Meng-Hsuen Chiu, Wei-Chun Chin, Antonietta Quigg

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Meng-Hsuen Chiu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hernando P. Bacosa, Manoj Kamalanathan, Meng-Hsuen Chiu, Wei-Chun Chin, Antonietta Quigg

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Bioengineering Program, School of Engineering, University of California at Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

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• Shih-Ming Tsai ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bioengineering Program, School of Engineering, University of California at Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

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• Luni Sun ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jessica M. Labonté ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kathleen A. Schwehr ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• David Hala ,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Peter H. Santschi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Wei-Chun Chin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hernando P. Bacosa, Manoj Kamalanathan, Meng-Hsuen Chiu, Wei-Chun Chin, Antonietta Quigg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioengineering Program, School of Engineering, University of California at Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

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• Antonietta Quigg

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hernando P. Bacosa, Manoj Kamalanathan, Meng-Hsuen Chiu, Wei-Chun Chin, Antonietta Quigg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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