Ecophysiology and geochemistry of microbial arsenic oxidation within a high arsenic, circumneutral hot spring system of the Alvord Desert

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-128

  Connon, Stephanie A ^a,d   Koski, Angie K ^c   Neal, Andrew L ^b   Wood, Scott A ^c   Magnuson, Timothy S ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alvord Desert Basin; Arsenic oxidation; Biogeochemistry; Geomicrobiology; Thermus; Zymography

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; RNA 16S;

ARSENIC; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; OXIDATION; SPRING WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESERT; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PH; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFURIHYDROGENIBIUM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOCRINIS; THERMUS; THERMUS AQUATICUS; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; HOT SPRINGS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OREGON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS;

ALVORD BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFURIHYDROGENIBIUM; THERMOCRINIS; THERMUS; THERMUS AQUATICUS; UNCULTURED BACTEROIDETES BACTERIUM;

EID: 40549098142     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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