Aromatic hydrocarbon degradation patterns and catechol 2,3-dioxygenase genes in microbial cultures from deep anoxic hypersaline lakes in the eastern Mediterranean sea

Microbiological Research

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-58

  Brusa, Tullio ^a   Borin, Sara ^a   Ferrari, Fabrizio ^a   Sorlini, Claudia ^a   Corselli, Cesare ^b   Daffonchio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anoxic deep hypersaline basins; Aromatic hydrocarbons; Catechol 2,3 dioxygenase; Mediterranean sea; Microbial degradation

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BACTERIAL DNA; CATECHOL 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENETIC STRAIN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MIXED CELL CULTURE; MOLECULAR SIZE; RIBOSOME DNA; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOLUENE; WATER DEPTH;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; DEGRADATION; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROORGANISM;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PSEUDOMONAS MENDOCINA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0035015121     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0944-5013-00075     Document Type: Article

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