Environmental distribution of the trichloroethene reductive dehalogenase gene (tceA) suggests lateral gene transfer among Dehalococcoides

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 206-214

  Krajmalnik Brown, Rosa ^a,c   Sung, Youlboong ^a,d   Ritalahti, Kirsti M ^a   Michael Saunders, F ^a   Löffler, Frank E ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorinated ethenes; Dehalococcoides; Lateral gene transfer; Reductive dechlorination; Reductive dehalogenase genes

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; SEDIMENT;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TCEA GENE; TCEB GENE; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; OXIDOREDUCTASES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 33845645594     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00243.x     Document Type: Article

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