| widespread capacity to metabolize polychlorinated biphenyls by diverse microbial communities in soils with no significant exposure to pcb contamination. | the purpose of this work was to determine the extent of microbial metabolic potential for polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) in soils that have had no previous exposure to this class of xenobiotic pollutants. soil and sediment samples of distinct characteristics from six sites in germany were used to inoculate pcb oil (aroclor 1242) microdroplets. all samples yielded multispecies biofilms, as revealed by single-strand conformation polymorphism (sscp) analyses of polymerase chain reaction (pcr) ana ... | 2007 | 17635537 |