Arsenicicoccus bolidensis a novel arsenic reducing actinomycete in contaminated sediments near the Adak mine (northern Sweden): Impact on water chemistry

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 379, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 216-225

  Routh, Joyanto ^a   Saraswathy, Ambujom ^a   Collins, Matthew D ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. bolidensis; Adak; Arsenic; Mine tailings; Reduction; Remobilization

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOMASS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION; TAILINGS; WATER TREATMENT;

ADAK MINE; ARSENICICOCCUS BOLIDENSIS; MINE TAILINGS; REMOBILIZATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

STARCH;

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER;

ARSENIC; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TAILINGS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARSENICICOCCUS BOLIDENSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARSENIC; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RIVERS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFIDES; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ADAK MINE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ARSENICICOCCUS BOLIDENSIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 34248562703     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.06.027     Document Type: Article

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