A quantitative assay for linking microbial community function and structure of a naphthalene-degrading microbial consortium

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9611-9619

  Yu, Chang Ping ^a   Chu, Kung Hui ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOTOPES; NAPHTHALENE; SOILS;

ISOTOPE PROBING TECHNIQUES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CARBON 13; DNA 16S; ISOTOPE; NAPHTHALENE;

MICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY FOR LINKING MICROBIAL COMMUNITY FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOTOPE LABELING; NAPHTHALENES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INTRASPORANGIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 29244477525     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051024e     Document Type: Article

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