Microbial Populations Associated with Treatment of an Industrial Dye Effluent in an Anaerobic Baffled Reactor

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3226-3235

  Plumb, Jason J ^a   Bell, Joanne ^b   Stuckey, David C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD DYE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; SULFUR;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEWAGE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FOOD COLORING AGENTS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 0035409454     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.3226-3235.2001     Document Type: Article

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