Assessment of in situ reductive dechlorination using compound-specific stable isotopes, functional gene PCR, and geochemical data

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4301-4307

  Carreón Diazconti, Concepción ^a,b   Santamaría, Johanna ^b,c   Berkompas, Justin ^b   Field, James A ^d   Brusseau, Mark L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD JORGE TADEO LOZANO   (Colombia)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; BIOTRANSFORMATION ACTIVITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION PROCESS; CHLORINATED SOLVENT; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; CONTAMINANT PLUME; CONTAMINATED SITES; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DICHLOROETHENE; FREE PHASE; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; IN-SITU; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LABORATORY MICROCOSM; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MONITORING WELLS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASES; STABLE ISOTOPES; TARGET REGIONS; TETRACHLOROETHENE; TRICHLOROETHENE; TUCSON , ARIZONA; VINYL CHLORIDES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOASSAY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; DNA SEQUENCES; ETHYLENE; GENES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; REACTION KINETICS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WELLS;

DECHLORINATION;

DIESEL FUEL; ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE; RIBOSOME RNA; SOLVENT; TETRACHLOROETHANE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METABOLITE; MICROCOSM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DECHLORINATION; DESULFUROMONAS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; PLUME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENES, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFUROMONAS SP.;

EID: 67449164385     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es803308q     Document Type: Article

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