Potential for mercury reduction by microbes in the high Arctic

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2230-2238

  Poulain, Alexandre J ^a   Ní Chadhain, Sinéad M ^b   Ariya, Parisa A ^c   Amyot, Marc ^a   Garcia, Edenise ^a   Campbell, Peter G C ^d   Zylstra, Gerben J ^b,e   Barkay, Tamar ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CONTAMINATION; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; IONIC MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBES;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; BIOACCUMULATION; COASTAL LAGOON; ELEMENT MOBILITY; GENE; MARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; MICROORGANISM; POLAR REGION; REDUCTION; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; LAGOON; MACROALGA; MERA GENE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL MAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLLUTANT; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSYCHROPHILE; REDUCTION; SEASHORE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MERCURY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC;

EID: 34247509207     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02701-06     Document Type: Article

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