Phylogenetic characterization of a polychlorinated-dioxin-dechlorinating microbial community by use of microcosm studies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4325-4334

  Yoshida, Naoko ^a   Takahashi, Nobutaka ^a   Hiraishi, Akira ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; GLASS BOTTLES; HYDROCARBONS; RIVERS; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; CONGENERS; QUINONE; RIVER SEDIMENT;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CATECHOL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME RNA; RIVER WATER; RNA 16S; SALICYLIC ACID; UBIQUINONE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLOROFLEXI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FIRMICUTES; MICROCOSM; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORINE; CHLOROFLEXI; CULTURE MEDIA; DIOXINS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 23744489083     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4325-4334.2005     Document Type: Article

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