Microbiological and geochemical heterogeneity in an in situ uranium bioremediation field site

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6308-6318

  Vrionis, Helen A ^a   Anderson, Robert T ^a   Ortiz Bernad, Irene ^a   O'Neill, Kathleen R ^a   Resch, Charles T ^b   Peacock, Aaron D ^d   Dayvault, Richard ^c   White, David C ^d   Long, Philip E ^b   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SM Stoller Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; URANIUM;

ACETATE INJECTION; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; SULFIDE VALUES;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ACETIC ACID; FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; GROUND WATER; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFATE; SULFIDE; URANIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; URANIUM;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; DESULFOBACTERALES; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOBACTERACEAE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANKTON; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ACETATES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTERALES; GEOBACTERACEAE;

EID: 26844471341     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6308-6318.2005     Document Type: Article

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