Composition and function of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in eutrophic and pristine areas of the Florida Everglades

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 6129-6137

  Castro, Hector ^a   Reddy, K R ^a   Ogram, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ENZYMES; GENES; GROUNDWATER; OXIDATION; SULFATE MINERALS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES;

ECOLOGY;

ACETIC ACID; SULFATE; SULFITE REDUCTASE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; PROKARYOTE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DESULFOTOMACULUM; EUTROPHICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL QUALITY; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EUTROPHICATION; FLORIDA; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOTOMACULUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036946818     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.6129-6137.2002     Document Type: Article

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