Relationships between Microbial Community Structure and Hydrochemistry in a Landfill Leachate-Polluted Aquifer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 4619-4629

  Röling, Wilfred F M ^a,b   Van Breukelen, Boris M ^a   Braster, Martin ^a   Lin, Bin ^a   Van Verseveld, Henk W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEDIMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0035491310     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4619-4629.2001     Document Type: Article

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