Use of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes to investigate the occurrence and selection of sulfate-reducing bacteria in response to nutrient addition to sediment slurry microcosms from a Japanese estuary

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-234

  Purdy, Kevin J ^a   Nedwell, David B ^a   Embley, T Martin ^b   Takii, Susumu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Desulfobacter; Desulfobulbus; Oligonucleotide probe; Sediment slurry; Sulfate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SULFATE;

ACETATE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSMS; NUTRIENT ADDITION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PROPIONATE; SENSORS; SLURRIES; SLURRY MICROCOSM; SULPHATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ECOLOGY; ESTUARY; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

JAPAN, HONSHU, TOKYO, TAMA RIVER;

DESULFOBACTER; DESULFOBULBUS;

EID: 0030680093     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(97)00059-7     Document Type: Article

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