Hexavalent uranium supports growth of Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans and Geobacter spp. with lower than predicted biomass yields

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2885-2893

  Sanford, Robert A ^a   Wu, Qingzhong ^b   Sung, Youlboong ^b,d   Thomas, Sara H ^b   Amos, Benjamin K ^b   Prince, Emily K ^c   Löffler, Frank E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYXOCOCCALES; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ELECTRONS; GEOBACTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOCOCCALES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; URANIUM;

ANAEROMYXOBACTER; ANAEROMYXOBACTER DEHALOGENANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER LOVLEYI; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 35148851430     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01405.x     Document Type: Article

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