Bacterial populations in samples of bioleached copper ore as revealed by analysis of DNA obtained before and after cultivation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1323-1328

  Pizarro, José ^a   Jedlicki, Eugenia ^a   Orellana, Omar ^a   Romero, Jaime ^a   Espejo, Romilio T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Pudahuel Mining Society   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THIOBACILLUS;

EID: 0030009730     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.4.1323-1328.1996     Document Type: Article

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