Enrichment of a dioxin-dehalogenating Dehalococcoides species in two-liquid phase cultures

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2670-2683

  Bunge, Michael ^a,b   Wagner, Anke ^a   Fischer, Marco ^a   Andreesen, Jan R ^a   Lechner, Ute ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2,4 TRICHLORODIBENZO 1,4 DIOXIN; 1,2,4-TRICHLORODIBENZO-1,4-DIOXIN; 1,3 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,3-DICHLOROBENZENE; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CHLOROBENZENE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; TRICHLOROBENZENE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROFLEXI; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHLOROBENZENES; CHLOROFLEXI; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HYDROGEN; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 51649117275     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01688.x     Document Type: Article

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