Isolation and Characterization of a Novel As(V)-Reducing Bacterium: Implications for Arsenic Mobilization and the Genus Desulfitobacterium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 5568-5580

  Niggemyer, Allison ^a,c   Spring, Stefan ^b   Stackebrandt, Erko ^b   Rosenzweig, R Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FRESH WATER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENATES; ARSENIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FORMIC ACIDS; FRESH WATER; GRAM-POSITIVE RODS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0035656384     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.12.5568-5580.2001     Document Type: Article

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