Characterization of 16s rRNA genes from oil field microbial communities indicates the presence of a variety of sulfate-reducing, fermentative, and sulfide-oxidizing bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1623-1629

  Voordouw, Gerrit ^a   Armstrong, Stephen M ^a   Reimer, Monika F ^a   Fouts, Benjamin ^a   Telang, Anita J ^a   Shen, Yin ^a   Gevertz, Diane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b AGOURON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; EUBACTERIUM; FERMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OIL INDUSTRY; PHYLOGENY; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER SP.; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SP.; DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE; EUBACTERIUM SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; OCEANOSPIRILLUM; SYNERGISTES; THIOMICROSPIRA; DESULFOBACTERIACEAE; EUBACTERIUM;

SULPHATE-REDUCING BACTERIA; SULPHIDE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA;

EID: 0029662670     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1623-1629.1996     Document Type: Article

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