Structure analysis and performance of a microbial community from a contaminated aquifer involved in the complete reductive dechlorination of 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane to ethene

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-249

  Rossetti, Simona ^a   Aulenta, Federico ^b   Majone, Mauro ^b   Crocetti, Gregory ^c   Tandoi, Valter ^a  

^a WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

1,1,2,2 tetrachloroethane; Bioremediation; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Reductive dechlorination

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; DECHLORINATION; FLUORESCENCE;

CONTAMINATED AQUIFERS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; TETRACHLOROETHANE;

MICROORGANISMS;

RIBOSOME DNA; TETRACHLOROETHANE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DNA LIBRARY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GEOBACTER; HALOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERFORMANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SULFUROSPIRILLUM; THERMODYNAMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORINE; ETHANE; ETHYLENES; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

DEHALOBACTER; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; GEOBACTER; SULFUROSPIRILLUM;

EID: 44449097724     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.21776     Document Type: Article

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