Quantitation of the population size and metabolic activity of a resin acid degrading bacterium in activated sludge using slot-blot hybridization to measure the rRNA:rDNA ratio

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 348-357

  Muttray, A F ^a   Mohn, W W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL DIVISION; COCULTURE; DEHYDROABIETIC ACID; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RESIN ACID; RIBOSOMAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL RNA; RIBOSOMAL RNA RIBOSOMAL DNA RATIO; SLOT BLOT HYBRIDIZATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; ESTIMATION METHOD; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POPULATION SIZE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; SPHINGOMONAS SP. DHA-33;

EID: 0343674028     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002489901005     Document Type: Article

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