Heterogeneous aerobic benzene-degrading communities in oxygen-depleted groundwaters

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 260-270

  Fahy, Anne ^a   McGenity, Terry J ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a   Ball, Andrew S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alkaline groundwater; Bacterial community composition; Benzene contamination; DNA fingerprinting; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T RFLP)

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; OXYGEN;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; SANDSTONE;

ACIDOVORAX; AEROBIC BACTERIA; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ALKALINITY; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROGENOPHAGA; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; RHODOFERAX; SANDSTONE AQUIFER; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GREAT BRITAIN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOVORAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYDROGENOPHAGA; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; RHODOFERAX; SIREN;

EID: 33750090667     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00162.x     Document Type: Article

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