Determining the identity and roles of oil-metabolizing marine bacteria from the Thames estuary, UK

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 165-176

  McKew, Boyd A ^a   Coulon, Frédéric ^a   Osborn, A Mark ^b   Timmis, Kenneth N ^c   McGenity, Terry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PETROLEUM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

ALCANIVORAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYCLOCLASTICUS; ROSEOBACTER; THALASSOLITUUS; THALASSOLITUUS OLEIVORANS;

EID: 33846118864     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01125.x     Document Type: Article

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