Microarray and real-time PCR analyses of the responses of high-arctic soil bacteria to hydrocarbon pollution and bioremediation treatments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6258-6267

  Yergeau, Etienne ^a,b   Arbour, Mélanie ^a   Brousseau, Roland ^a   Juck, David ^a   Lawrence, John R ^c   Masson, Luke ^a   Whyte, Lyle G ^b   Greer, Charles W ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ARCTIC SOIL; ARCTIC STATION; AS-SOILS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COLD ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DIOXYGENASES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EX SITU; FUNCTIONAL GENES; HYDROCARBON BIOREMEDIATION; HYDROCARBON DEGRADATION; HYDROCARBON POLLUTION; IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE; IN-SITU; LAG PERIOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOLECULAR TOOLS; MONOOXYGENASES; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REAL-TIME PCR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASES; SAMPLING SITE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VERY LOW TEMPERATURES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROARRAYS; MOISTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; POLLUTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOILS;

BIOREMEDIATION;

ALKANE; DIOXYGENASE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RNA 16S; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OPTIMIZATION; PAH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOREMEDIATION; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMIDITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HYDROCARBONS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70349417821     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01029-09     Document Type: Article

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