Evaluation of strains isolated by growth on naphthalene and biphenyl for hybridization of genes to dioxygenase probes and polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading ability

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2053-2058

  Pellizari, Vivian H ^a,b   Bezborodnikov, Serguei ^a   Quensen III, John F ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PSEUDOMONAS; SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; DNA PROBES; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; NAPHTHALENES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OXYGENASES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0029891661     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.6.2053-2058.1996     Document Type: Article

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