Metabolically active microbial communities in uranium-contaminated subsurface sediments

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-107

  Akob, Denise M ^a   Mills, Heath J ^a   Kostka, Joel E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe(III) reduction; Microbial community composition; Nitrate reduction; Nitrate reducing bacteria; Subsurface sediments; Uranium contamination

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOCHEMISTRY; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIONUCLIDE; RNA; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URANIUM;

ACIDITY; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOREMEDIATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA LIBRARY; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEDIMENT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEOBACTERIA; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; URANIUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33845683068     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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