Environmental pollution promotes selection of microbial degradation pathways

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-42

  Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POLLUTION; WASTEWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 32444440701     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0035:EPPSOM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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