Molecular, biochemical and ecological characterisation of a bio-catalytic calcification reactor

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 62, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 191-201

  Hammes, F ^a   Boon, N ^a   Clement, G ^a   De Villiers, J ^b   Siciliano, S D ^a   Verstraete, W ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; DNA; GROUND WATER; RNA 16S; UREASE;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; BIOREACTOR; CALCIUM; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BIOREACTOR; CATALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; REACTOR; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLUDGE; UREC GENE; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOREACTORS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CATALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRECIPITATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; UREA; UREASE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCOBACTER; ARCOBACTER SP. SOLAR LAKE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES SP.; PORPHYROMONAS;

EID: 0042162850     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-003-1287-6     Document Type: Article

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