Identification of the metabolically active members of a bacterial community in a polychlorinated biphenyl-polluted moorland soil

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-212

  Nogales, Balbina ^a   Moore, Edward R B ^a   Abraham, Wolf Rainer ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIUM; ACIDOBACTERIUM CAPSULATUM; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; HOLOPHAGA; PLANCTOMYCETALES; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPILA GLOBIFORMIS; SPHINGOMONAS; VARIOVORAX;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GERMANY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; GERMANY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0033140436     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00024.x     Document Type: Article

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