Microbial diversity in a hydrocarbon- and chlorinated-solvent- contaminated aquifer undergoing intrinsic bioremediation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3869-3877

  Dojka, Michael A ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^a   Haack, Sheridan K ^b   Pace, Norman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BIOREMEDIATION; CLONING; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; HYDROCARBONS; RNA; SOLVENTS;

ACETICLASTIC METHANOGENESIS; CHLORINATED SOLVENT; SEQUENCING;

BACTERIOLOGY;

CHLORINE; HYDROCARBON;

AQUIFER; BIOREMEDIATION; HYDROCARBON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOIL TREATMENT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHANOSAETA; SYNTROPHUS;

EID: 0032189023     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.3869-3877.1998     Document Type: Article

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