Microbial community and physicochemical analysis of an industrial waste gas biofilter and design of 16S rRNA-targeting oligonucleotide probes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 183-201

  Friedrich, Udo ^a,c   Van Langenhove, Herman ^b   Altendorf, Karlheinz ^a   Lipski, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DANISCO   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FILTRATION; GASES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFIDES; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALCALIGENES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BORDETELLA; CYTOPHAGA; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037345523     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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