In situ exposure to low herbicide concentrations affects microbial population composition and catabolic gene frequency in an aerobic shallow aquifer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 461-467

  De Lipthay, Julia R ^a   Tuxen, Nina ^b   Johnsen, Kaare ^a,b   Hansen, Lars H ^c   Albrechtsen, Hans Jørgen ^b   Bjerg, Poul L ^b   Aamand, Jens ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GENES; HERBICIDES; MICROORGANISMS; MICROSCOPES;

SELECTIVE AGAR MEDIA;

AQUIFERS;

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; GROUND WATER; HERBICIDE; PHENOXYACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AQUIFER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HERBICIDE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AGAR MEDIUM; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DEGRADATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLATING MEDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT; TECHNIQUE;

2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIOXYGENASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HERBICIDES; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; OXYGENASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0347927257     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.1.461-467.2003     Document Type: Article

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