Molecular analysis of surfactant-driven microbial population shifts in hydrocarbon-contaminated soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2959-2964

  Colores, Gregory M ^a   Macur, Richard E ^a   Ward, David M ^a   Inskeep, William P ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS; SOIL POLLUTION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ALKANES; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, RRNA; HYDROCARBONS; PHENANTHRENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOCARDIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033916613     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.7.2959-2964.2000     Document Type: Article

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