Isolation and characterization of Desulfovibrio dechloracetivorans sp. nov., a marine dechlorinating bacterium growing by coupling the oxidation of acetate to the reductive dechlorination of 2-chlorophenol

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2408-2413

  Sun, Baolin ^a   Cole, James R ^a   Sanford, Robert A ^b   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 CHLOROPHENOL; ACETIC ACID; AROMATIC COMPOUND; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DECHLORINATION; DESULFOVIBRIO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLLUTANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETATES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROPHENOLS; CULTURE MEDIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO DECHLORACETIVORANS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034045262     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.6.2408-2413.2000     Document Type: Article

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