Diversity, abundance, and consistency of microbial oxygenase expression and biodegradation in a shallow contaminated aquifer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6478-6487

  Yagi, Jane M ^a   Madsen, Eugene L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; BIODEGRADATION POTENTIALS; CDNA SEQUENCE; COMMUNITY STABILITY; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; DIOXYGENASE GENES; DIOXYGENASES; GENE SEQUENCES; GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS; IN-FIELD; IN-SITU; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; OXYGENASES; QUANTITATIVE-COMPETITIVE PCR; RHODOCOCCUS; SHORT-TERM VARIATIONS; SPHINGOMONAS; STRUCTURAL GENE; SUBSURFACE STUDY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME FRAME;

AQUIFERS; ASSAYS; BIOACTIVITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLONING; COAL TAR; DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NAPHTHALENE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; WELLS;

BIODEGRADATION;

GROUND WATER; MESSENGER RNA; NAPHTHALENE; OXYGENASE;

ABUNDANCE INDEX; AQUIFER; BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; CLONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLONE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NAG GENE; NAH GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHODOCOCCUS; SPHINGOMONAS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DIOXYGENASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHALENES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

RHODOCOCCUS; SPHINGOMONAS;

EID: 70349907086     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01091-09     Document Type: Article

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