The cadA gene in cadmium-resistant bacteria from cadmium-polluted soil in the Zhangshi Area of Northeast China

Current Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 236-239

  Zhang, Yan ^a,b   Zhang, Huiwen ^a   Li, Xinyu ^a   Su, Zhencheng ^a   Zhang, Chenggang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; FLAVOBACTERIA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACILLUS; BACTERIA; CADMIUM; CHINA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLAVOBACTERIUM; LANGAT VIRUS;

EID: 39149102835     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-007-9064-x     Document Type: Article

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