Biodiversity amongst cultivable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon- transforming bacteria isolated from an abandoned industrial site

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 375-382

  Zocca, Chiara ^a   Di Gregorio, Simona ^a   Visentini, Filippo ^a   Vallini, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Microbial cenosis; PAH transforming genotypes; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Soil bacteria

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LEUCOBACTER KOMAGATAE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4444353526     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.07.055     Document Type: Article

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