. 2018 May 31;94(8):fiy103. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiy103

Table 1.

Summary of environments where acetylene degradation has been observed.

Sample location	Habitat Type	Character/ Salinity (g L⁻¹)	Incubation condition	C₂H₂ uptake	AH PCR result	Reference
Los Baños, Philippines	Rice paddy soil	Fresh	Anaerobic	+	N/A^a	Watanabe and De Guzman (1980)
San Francisco Bay, California USA	Intertidal mud flat sediment	Estuarine	Anaerobic	+	N/A^a	Culbertson, Zehnder and Oremland (1981)
San Francisquito Creek, California USA	Freshwater sediment	Fresh	Anaerobic	−	N/A^a	Culbertson, Zehnder and Oremland (1981)
Unknown	Fox sandy loam soil	Fresh	Anaerobic	+	N/A^a	Yeomans and Beauchamp (1982)
	Brookston silty clay	Fresh	Anaerobic	+	N/A^a	Yeomans and Beauchamp (1982)
Floradale, Ontario, Canada	Stream sediment and water		Aerobic	+	N/A^a	Tam, Mayfield and Inniss (1983)
		Fresh	Anaerobic	−	N/A^a	Tam, Mayfield and Inniss (1983)
Ithaca, New York USA	Collamer silty clay loam soil		Aerobic	+	N/A^a	Terry and Duxbury (1986)
		Fresh	Anaerobic	+	N/A^a	Terry and Duxbury (1986)
Spanish Fork, Utah USA	Timpanogos clay loam soil		Aerobic	+	N/A^a	Terry and Duxbury (1986)
		Fresh	Anaerobic	+	N/A^a	Terry and Duxbury (1986)
Belle Glade, Florida USA	Pahokee muck soil	Fresh	Aerobic	+	N/A^a	Terry and Duxbury (1986)
Dijon, France	Agricultural soil		Aerobic	+	N/A^a	Topp and Germon (1986)
		Fresh	Anaerobic	−	N/A^a	Topp and Germon (1986)
Unknown	Estuarine sediment	Estuarine	Anaerobic	+	N/A^a	Culbertson, Strohmaier and Oremland (1988)
Hajdów Research Station (Lublin, Poland)	Peat muck soil	Fresh	Aerobic	+	N/A^a	Brzeziska et al.(2011)
	Cambisol soil	Fresh	Aerobic	+	N/A^a	Brzeziska et al.2011)
San Francisco Bay, California USA	Intertidal sediment	25	Anaerobic	+	+	Miller et al.(2013)
	Saltmarsh sediment	25	Anaerobic	+	−	Miller et al.(2013)
Searsville Lake, California USA	Freshwater sediment	<1	Anaerobic	+	−	Miller et al.(2013)
Mono Lake, California USA	Littoral sediment	80	Anaerobic	−	−	Miller et al.(2013)
	Hot spring biofilm	25	Anaerobic	−	−	Miller et al.(2013)
Gulf of Mexico	Cold hydrocarbon seep brine	60	Anaerobic	−	−	Miller et al.(2013)
Long Valley, California USA	Hot spring biofilm	4	Anaerobic	−	−	Miller et al.(2013)
Western Pennsylvania USA	Peat bog sediment	<1	Anaerobic	−	−	Miller et al.(2013)
Piedmont, Virginia USA	Constructed wetland sediment	<1	Anaerobic	+	−	Miller et al. (2013)
Pillar Point, California USA	Saltmarsh sediment	20	Anaerobic	+	−	Miller et al.(2013)
Great Bay, New Hampshire USA	Estuarine sediment (Portsmouth)	28	Anaerobic	+	+	Miller et al. (2013)
	Estuarine sediment (Squamscott)	28	Anaerobic	−	+	Miller et al. (2013)
Trenton, New Jersey USA (Naval Air Warfare Center^b)	TCE-contaminated groundwater (well 36BR-A, 2009^c)	<1	Anaerobic	+	+	Miller et al. (2013)
	TCE-contaminated groundwater (well 36BR-A, 2015)	<1	Anaerobic	+	Not measured	This study
	TCE-contaminated groundwater (well 73BR-D2, 2015)	<1	Anaerobic	+	Not measured	This study
	TCE-contaminated groundwater (well 36BR-A, 2017)	<1	Anaerobic	+	+	This study
Mountain View, California (NASA Ames Research Center)	Soil above TCE-contaminated groundwater (2017)	<1	Aerobic	+	−	This study
	Soil above TCE-contaminated groundwater (2017)	<1	Anaerobic	+	+	This study
	Trace TCE-contaminated groundwater (well 14D26A1)	<1	Anaerobic	−	Not measured	This study
	Trace TCE-contaminated groundwater (well 11N22A1)	<1	Anaerobic	−	Not measured	This study
	Trace TCE-contaminated groundwater (well 11MO3A)	<1	Anaerobic	−	Not measured	This study

N/A=not applicable because the reference pre-dated the development of Pelobacter acetylenicus-specific acetylene hydratase (AH) PCR primers.

For additional information about the NAWC site see (Révész et al.2014).

Indicates year groundwater samples were collected for acetylene uptake experiments.