Dynamics of an oligotrophic bacterial aquifer community during contact with a groundwater plume contaminated with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes: An in situ mesocosm study

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3815-3825

  Hendrickx, Barbara ^a,b   Dejonghe, Winnie ^a   Boënne, Wesley ^a   Brennerova, Maria ^c   Cernik, Miroslav ^d   Lederer, Tomas ^d   Bucheli Witschel, Margarete ^e   Bastiaens, Leen ^a   Verstraete, Willy ^b   Top, Eva M ^b,g   Diels, Ludo ^a   Springael, Dirk ^a,f  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d Aquatest ^*  (Czech Republic)

^e SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEL ELECTROPHORESIS ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER PLUMES; MESOCOSM SYSTEMS; PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; DYNAMICS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GROUNDWATER; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THERMAL PLUMES;

BACTERIA;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; GROUND WATER; POLYPROPYLENE; RNA 16S; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DYNAMICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLUME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BENZENE; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOLUENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XYLENES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 22144443204     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.7.3815-3825.2005     Document Type: Article

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