Changes in soil Acidobacteria communities after 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene contamination

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-166

  George, Isabelle F ^a   Liles, Mark R ^b,d   Hartmann, Manuela ^c,e   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^c   Goodman, Robert M ^b,f   Agathos, Spiros N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidobacteria; Clone libraries; DGGE; Diversity; TNT

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ACIDOBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; FRANCE; GENE LIBRARY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; SPAIN; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 67649214256     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01632.x     Document Type: Article

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