Microbial communities in acid water environments of two mines, China

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1045-1050

  Xiao, Shengmu ^a   Xie, Xuehui ^a   Liu, Jianshe ^a,b  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Microbial community; PCA; RFLP

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACID WATER ENVIRONMENTS; ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; ARCHAEA; FIRMICUTES; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; GUANGDONG PROVINCES; JIANGXI PROVINCES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; NITROSPIRA; PCA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RFLP;

ACIDS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLEACHING; CLONING; DRAINAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LEAD; MINING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ZINC; ZINC MINES;

MINES;

LEAD; WATER; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACID WATER; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEACHING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOLEACHING; CHINA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEAD; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZINC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; FERROPLASMA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 58249126338     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.09.035     Document Type: Article

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