Multiple Metal Resistance in the Ciliate Protozoan, Vorticella microstoma, Isolated from Industrial Effluents and Its Potential in Bioremediation of Toxic Wastes

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1046-1051

  Shakoori, A R ^a   Rehman, A ^a   Riaz Ul Haq, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; WATER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOON; REDUCTION; TOXIC WASTE; VORTICELLA MICROSTOMA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER SAMPLING;

CILIOPHORA; MICROSTOMA; PROTOZOA; VORTICELLA; VORTICELLA MICROSTOMA;

EID: 1942438035     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-004-0349-5     Document Type: Article

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