The effects of sewage-treatment-works effluent on epilithic bacterial and algal communities of three streams in Northern England

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 568, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-42

  Oliveira, Maria Angélica ^a,b   Goulder, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b CCNE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DGGE; Epilithic algae; Epilithic bacteria; PCR; Sewage treatment works effluent

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPOSITION; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

CONVENTIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EPILITHIC ALGAE; EPILITHIC BACTERIA; SEWAGE-TREATMENT-WORKS EFFLUENT;

SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ALGA; BACTERIUM; CHLOROPHYLL A; DNA; EFFLUENT; GENOMICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STREAM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH YORKSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33746794152     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0013-7     Document Type: Article

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