Sulfate-reducing bacterial community structure and their contribution to carbon mineralization in a wastewater biofilm growing under microaerophilic conditions

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 322-334

  Okabe, S ^a   Ito, T ^a   Satoh, H ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HACHINOHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; HYDROGEN; MOLYBDIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

BIOFILM; CARBON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MINERALIZATION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CARBON MINERALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFONEMA; DNA LIBRARY; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOFILMS; CARBON; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFONEMA; FIRMICUTES; FLEXIBACTER; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; OTUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 1642439179     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-003-1395-3     Document Type: Article

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