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8399379 
Journal Article 
Isolierung, Substratassimilation und einige Produkte alkanabbauender Schimmelpilze 
Pelz, BF; Rehm, HJ 
1972 
Yes 
Archives of Microbiology
ISSN: 0302-8933
EISSN: 1432-072X 
Springer-Verlag 
84 
1 
20-28 
German 
1. Six strains of alkane assimilating molds (belonging to the order of the Mucorales and Moniliales) were isolated from 120 different samples of soil, taken from the parks of Muenster. The soil had not been contacted or enriched with crude oil or paraffinic substances before. These strains plus ten strains from our own collection were tested for their ability to utilize alkanes of different chain length as well as some of the corresponding alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, fatty acids, dicarboxylic acids and fatty acid methyl esters. 2. Most of the strains did not assimilate tetradecanal (0.5%) and n-decane. 3. Long chain alkanes, alcohols and ketones were assimilated more easily than short chain ones. 4. Cyclic substances (benzene, naphthalin, anthracene, phenanthrene, cyclooctanol, cyclooctanone, cyclododecane, cyclododecanol, cyclododecanone and decalin) were not utilized. 5. The majority of the fungi produced ketonic substances from dodecane and tetradecane, and esters from tetradecane, pentadecane, dodecanoic acid methyl ester ("transesterification") and decanol. © 1972 Springer-Verlag.