Microbial indicator groups in acidic mining lakes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 133-139

  Wenderoth, Dirk F ^a   Abraham, Wolf Rainer ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; ION; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PH; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IONS; MINING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ACIDOCELLA; ACIDOCELLA SP.; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACILLUS PUMILUS; FERRIMICROBIUM ACIDIPHILUM; OTUS; PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS CHIBENSIS; PUMILUS;

EID: 12544251527     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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