Mercury-resistant actinomycetes from the Chesapeake Bay

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 177-184

  Ravel, Jacques ^a   Amoroso, Maria J ^a   Colwell, Rita R ^a,b   Hill, Russell T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marine actinomycetes; Mercury resistance; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

DNA; LYASE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE; HYBRIDIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STREPTOMYCES;

BALTIMORE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LYASES; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STREPTOMYCES; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0032080540     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00116-5     Document Type: Article

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