A molecular fingerprint technique to detect pollution-related changes in river cyanobacterial diversity

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 464-468

  Rodríguez, Virginia ^a   De Cáreer, Daniel Aguirre ^a   Loza, Virginia ^a   Perona, Elvira ^a   Mateo, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION THEORY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYMES; RIVER POLLUTION;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CYANOBACTERIAL DIVERSITY; HUMAN-INDUCED DEGRADATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEGRADATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CYANOBACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVERS; SPAIN; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 33947355848     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2006.0190SC     Document Type: Article

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