Comparative analysis of three tetrachloroethene to ethene halorespiring consortia suggests functional redundancy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2261-2269

  Daprato, Rebecca C ^a,b,d   Löffler, Frank E ^a,c   Hughes, Joseph B ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM (TRFLP); TETRACHLOROETHENE;

BACTERIA; DECHLORINATION; METHANOL; ORGANIC ACIDS; RNA;

HYDROCARBONS;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; DEHALOGENASE; DNA; ETHYLENE; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIA; DECHLORINATION; HYDROCARBONS; METHANOL; ORGANIC ACIDS; RNA;

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; GENE; METHANOL; ORGANIC ACID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATION; RNA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOREACTORS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA PRIMERS; FERMENTATION; GEOBACTER; METHANE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

DEHALOBACTER; DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 33847657304     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061544p     Document Type: Article

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