Reduction of (per)chlorate by a novel organism isolated from paper mill waste

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 319-329

  Bruce, Royce A ^a   Achenbach, Laurie A ^a   Coates, John D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOCYCLUS TENUIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORITE DISMUTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PERCHLORIC ACID; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INDUSTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PAPER; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INDUSTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PAPER; PERCHLORIC ACID; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0033171582     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00042.x     Document Type: Article

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