The use of fatty acid methyl esters as biomarkers to determine aerobic, facultatively aerobic and anaerobic communities in wastewater treatment systems

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-82

  Quezada, Maribel ^a   Buitrón, Germán ^a   Moreno Andrade, Iván ^a   Moreno, Gloria ^a   López Marín, Luz M ^b  

^a Instituto de Ingenieria   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Community structure; FAME analysis; Fatty acid methyl esters; Wastewater systems

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FATTY ACID ESTER;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33845518817     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00509.x     Document Type: Article

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