Changes in bacterial community composition during the biodegradation of crude oil as affected by temperature, nutrients and initial bacterial community in deep and surface waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico

We sampled surface and deep-sea waters near the DWH site, amended with oil and incubated under different temperature, nutrients, and initial microbial community. The data here is the bacterial community percent composition of samples at different time (0, 5, 12 and 50 days) of incubation.