16S rRNA gene diversity of attached and unattached bacteria in boreholes along the access tunnel to the Äspö hard rock laboratory, Sweden

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 249-262

  Pedersen, Karsten ^a   Arlinger, Johanna ^a   Ekendahl, Susanne ^a   Hallbeck, Lotta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; sp ; DNA sequencing; Gene diversity; Groundwater; Iron reducing bacteria; Sulfate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; DESULFOMICROBIUM BACULATUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; POSIBACTERIA; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS; THIOMICROSPIRA;

GROUND WATER; IRON; RNA 16S; SULFATE;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; EUBACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFUR BACTERIUM; SWEDEN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0029973821     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6496(96)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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