Effects of long-term benzene pollution on bacterial diversity and community structure in groundwater

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1192-1199

  Fahy, Anne ^a   Lethbridge, Gordon ^b   Earle, Richard ^b   Ball, Andrew S ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a   McGenity, Terry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BENZENE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SIREN;

EID: 22744433578     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00799.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Alvarez, P.J.J., Anid, P.J., and Vogel, T.M. (1991) Kinetics of aerobic biodegradation of benzene and toluene in sandy aquifer material. Biodegradation 2: 43-51.
2. Atlas, R.M., Horowitz, A., Krichevsky, M., and Bej, A.K. (1991) Response of microbial populations to environmental disturbance. Microb Ecol 22: 249-256.
3. vanBeelen, P., and vanVlaardingen, P. (1994) Toxic effects of pollutants on the mineralization of 4-chlorophenol and benzoate in methanogenic river sediment. Environ Toxicol Chem 13: 1051-1060.
4. Boom, R., Sol, C.J.A., Salimans, M.M.M., Jansen, C.L., Wertheimvandillen, P.M.E., and Vandernoordaa, J. (1990) Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids. J Clin Microbiol 28: 495-503.
5. Boyd, E.M., Meharg, A.A., Wright, J., and Killham, K. (1997) Assessment of toxicological interactions of benzene and its primary degradation products (catechol and phenol) using a lux-modified bacterial bioassay. Environ Toxicol Chem 16: 849-856.
6. Bundy, J.G., Paton, G.I., and Campbell, C.D. (2002) Microbial communities in different soil types do not converge after diesel contamination. J Appl Microbiol 92: 276-288.
7. Davis, E.M., Murray, H.E., Liehr, J.G., and Powers, E.L. (1981) Basic microbial degradation rates and chemical by-products of selected organic compounds. Water Res 15: 1125-1127.
8. Gensemer, R.W., and Playle, R.C. (1999) The bioavailability and toxicity of aluminum in aquatic environments. Crit Rev Environ Sci Technol 29: 315-450.
9. Gutiérrez, T., Learmonth, R.P., Nichols, P.D., and Couperwhite, I. (2003) Comparative benzene-induced fatty acid changes in a Rhodococcus species and its benzene-sensitive mutant: possible role of myristic and oleic acids in tolerance. J Chem Ecol 29: 2369-2378.
10. Illmer, P., Marschall, K., and Schinner, F. (1995) Influence of available aluminium on soil microorganisms. Lett Appl Microbiol 21: 393-397.
11. Jones, D., Lethbridge, G., McCarthy, P., and Thomson, S. (2001) Project SIReN: Phase 2a. Conceptual Site Model & Groundwater Model. R & D Technical Report P2-208/ TR/2, Environment Agency, UK.
12. Juck, D., Charles, T., Whyte, L.G., and Greer, C.W. (2000) Polyphasic microbial community analysis of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils from two northern Canadian communities. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 33: 241-249.
13. Lepš, J., and Šmilauer, P. (2003) Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data Using Canoco. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
14. Lethbridge, G., Scott, P., and Earle, R. (2003) Project SIReN: Phase 2b. Further Investigation of the SIReN (Site for Innovative Research in Natural Attenuation) Site. R&D Technical Report P2-208/TR/3, Environment Agency, UK.
15. Lowe, M., Madsen, E.L., Schindler, K., Smith, C., Emrich, S., Robb, F., and Halden, R.U. (2002) Geochemistry and microbial diversity of a trichloroethene-contaminated Superfund site undergoing intrinsic in situ reductive dechlorination. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 40: 123-134.
16. Macdonald, T.L., and Martin, R.B. (1988) Aluminum ion in biological systems. Trends Biochem Sci 13: 15-19.
17. Marchesi, J.R., Sato, T., Weightman, A.J., Martin, T.A., Fry, J.C., Hiom, S.J., and Wade, W.G. (1998) Design and evaluation of useful bacterium-specific PCR primers that amplify genes coding for bacterial 16S rRNA. Appl Environ Microbiol 64: 795-799.
18. Massol-Deyá, A., Weller, R., Ríos-Hernández, L., Zhou, J.Z., Mickey, R.F., and Tiedje, J.M. (1997) Succession and convergence of biofilm communities in fixed-film reactors treating aromatic hydrocarbons in groundwater. Appl Environ Microbiol 63: 270-276.
19. Osborn, A.M., Moore, E.R.B., and Timmis, K.N. (2000) An evaluation of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis for the study of microbial community structure and dynamics. Environ Microbiol 2: 39-50.
20. Pina, R.G., and Cervantes, C. (1996) Microbial interactions with aluminium. Biometals 9: 311-316.
21. Röling, W.F.M., Milner, M.G., Jones, D.M., Lee, K., Daniel, F., Swannell, R.J.P., and Head, I.M. (2002) Robust hydro-carbon degradation and dynamics of bacterial communities during nutrient-enhanced oil spill bioremediation. Appl Environ Microbiol 68: 5537-5548.
22. Schweigert, N., Zehnder, A.J.B., and Eggen, R.I.L. (2001) Chemical properties of catechols and their molecular modes of toxic action in cells, from microorganisms to mammals. Environ Microbiol 3: 81-91.
23. Sikkema, J., de Bont, J.A.M., and Poolman, B. (1995) Mechanisms of membrane toxicity of hydrocarbons. Microbiol Rev 59: 201-222.
24. Tsitko, I.V., Zaitsev, G.M., Lobanok, A.G., and Salkinoja-Salonen, M.S. (1999) Effect of aromatic compounds on cellular fatty acid composition of Rhodococcus opacus. Appl Environ Microbiol 65: 853-855.
25. Volossiouk, T., Robb, E.J., and Nazar, R.N. (1995) Direct DNA extraction for PCR-mediated assays of soil organisms. Appl Environ Microbiol 61: 3972-3976.