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Introduction to the cultivation of microbes involved in the cycling of hydrocarbons.- Cultivating fastidious microbes.- The essentials of cultivating aerobic hydrocarbon-degrading microbes.- Cultivating aerobic hydrocarbon-degrading microbes from microalgae.- Growing and maintaining hydrocarbon-degrading consortia.- Two-phase cultivation techniques for hydrocarbon-degrading organisms.- Cultivation of hydrocarbon-degrading fungi.- Growth of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in continuous culture.- Growth procedures at low substrate concentrations.- Cultivation of biofilm-forming hydrocarbon degraders.- Cultivation of asphaltene-degrading microbes.- Cultivation of microorganisms for fuel quality improvement.- Simulation of oxygen and redox oscillations in crude oil- degrading bioreactors.- Cultivation of anaerobic microorganisms with hydrocarbons as growth substrates.- Enrichment and isolation of metal respirers and hydrocarbon oxidizers.- Enrichment and isolation of oxyion-respiring hydrocarbon oxidizers.- Cultivation of methanogens.- Cultivation of methylotrophs.- Cultivation of methanotrophs.- Cultivation of extremophilic hydrocarbon degraders.- Cultivation of piezophilic hydrocarbon degraders.- Cultivation of oil-producing microalgae.- Cultivation of oleaginous yeasts.- Cultivation of oil-tolerant protists.