Microbial communities associated with anaerobic benzene degradation in a petroleum-contaminated aquifer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3056-3063

  Rooney Varga, Juliette N ^a,c   Anderson, Robert T ^a   Fraga, Jocelyn L ^a,d   Ringelberg, David ^b   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; PETROLEUM;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTERACEAE; GEOTHRIX FERMENTANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER; GEOBACTERACEAE; GEOTHRIX FERMENTANS; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS;

EID: 0032976385     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.7.3056-3063.1999     Document Type: Article

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