Population dynamics of phenol-degrading bacteria in activated sludge determined by gyrB-targeted quantitative PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1203-1209

  Watanabe, Kazuya ^a,b   Yamamoto, Satoshi ^b   Hino, Sanae ^b   Harayama, Shigeaki ^b  

^a Tonen Corporation   (Japan)

^b MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CELL CULTURE; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); DNA; EXTRACTION; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOLS; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

COMAMONAS; DENSITOMETRY; PHENOL DEGRADING BACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIODEGRADATION; PHENOL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODEGRADATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS; COMAMONAS SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0032055049     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1203-1209.1998     Document Type: Article

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