Isolation and Characterization of Thallium-tolerant Bacteria from Heavy Metal-polluted River Sediment and Non-polluted Soils

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 251-260

  Bao, Zhihua ^a,b   Sato, Yoshinori ^b   Kubota, Masatsugu ^b   Ohta, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alphaproteobacteria; Bacillus niacini; heavy metals; Pseudomonas spp; Thallium

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349928680     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.21.251     Document Type: Article

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