Diversity and distribution of Anaeromyxobacter strains in a uranium-contaminated subsurface environment with a nonuniform groundwater flow

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3679-3687

  Thomas, Sara H ^a   Padilla Crespo, Elizabeth ^b   Jardine, Phillip M ^c   Sanford, Robert A ^d   Löffler, Frank E ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BIOSTIMULATION; CLONE LIBRARY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FIELD SCALE; HEXAVALENT URANIUM; IN-SITU; INJECTION WELLS; NONUNIFORM; NOVEL INFORMATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; SUBSURFACE RESEARCH; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

BIOREMEDIATION; CLONING; ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); PROBES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

STRAIN;

BACTERIAL DNA; GROUND WATER; IRON; NITRATE; RNA 16S; URANIUM;

BACTERIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IMMOBILIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URANIUM;

ANAEROMYXOBACTER DEHALOGENANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; WATER SAMPLING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOCOCCALES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UNITED STATES; URANIUM;

ANAEROMYXOBACTER; ANAEROMYXOBACTER DEHALOGENANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 66249118677     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02473-08     Document Type: Article

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