Environmental microbes can speciate and cycle arsenic

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9569-9573

  Rhine, E Danielle ^a   Garcia Dominguez, Elizabeth ^a   Phelps, Craig D ^a   Young, L Y ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISMS; REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION; TOXICITY;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANOXIC-OXIC CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBES; REDOX CYCLING;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; GROUND WATER;

ARSENIC; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL;

AMBIENT AIR; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STOICHIOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANOXIA; ARSENATES; ARSENIC; ARSENITES; ECOSYSTEM; NEW YORK; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 29244468294     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051047t     Document Type: Article

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