Modification of the aggregation behaviour of the environmental Ralstonia eutropha-like strain AE815 is reflected by both surface hydrophobicity and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) patterns

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-58

  Bossier, Peter ^a   Top, Eva M ^a   Huys, Geert ^a   Kersters, Karel ^a   Boonaert, Christophe J P ^b   Rouxhet, Paul G ^b   Verstraete, Willy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOLOGY; GENETIC STRAIN; HYDROPHOBICITY; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MUTANT; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL WALL; CONGO RED; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DNA FINGERPRINTING; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEWAGE;

RALSTONIA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0034543769     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2000.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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