Removal of selenate from sulfate-containing media by sulfate-reducing bacterial biofilms

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 816-826

  Hockin, Simon ^a   Gadd, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIC ACID; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOREMEDIATION; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DOSE RESPONSE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOMICROBIUM; DESULFOMICROBIUM SP.;

EID: 33645454053     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00967.x     Document Type: Article

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