Sulfide-oxidizing activity and bacterial community structure in a fluidized bed reactor from a zero-discharge mariculture system

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1802-1810

  Cytryn, Eddie ^a,b   Minz, Dror ^b   Gelfand, Ilya ^a   Neori, Amir ^c   Gieseke, Armin ^d   De Beer, Dirk ^d   Van Rijn, Jaap ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; EXTRAPOLATION; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTORS; GELS; OXIDATION; REFUSE DIGESTION;

ANOXIC LAYERS; DIGESTION BASIN (DB); ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR (FBR);

WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIAL RNA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SULFIDE;

BIOFILM; FLUIDIZED BED; OXIDATION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BIOFILM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANOXIA; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BIOFILM; BIOSENSOR; BULK DENSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION ANALYSES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASIFICATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROFLORA; MICROSCALE SULFIDE OXIDATION POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SULFIDE OXIDIZING BACTERIA; SYMBIONT; THIOMICROSPIRA; THIOMICROSPIRA DENITRIFICANS; THIOTRIX; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZERO DISCHARGE MARICULTURE SYSTEM;

AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; OZONE; SULFIDES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; THIOMICROSPIRA; THIOMICROSPIRA DENITRIFICANS; THIOTHRIX;

EID: 15244351807     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0491533     Document Type: Article

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