Prokaryotic community structure and sulfate reducer activity in water from high-temperature oil reservoirs with and without nitrate treatment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7086-7096

  Gittel, Antje ^a   Sørensen, Ketil Bernt ^b   Skovhus, Torben Lund ^b   Ingvorsen, Kjeld ^a   Schramm, Andreas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH CELL CULTURE; GENES; MICROBIAL CORROSION; MICROORGANISMS; NITRATES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEAWATER CORROSION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

16S RRNA GENE CLONE LIBRARIES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DESULFOTOMACULUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NITRATE TREATMENTS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SULFATE REDUCING; SULFATE REDUCTION;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

NITRATE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NITRATE; OIL PRODUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; RESERVOIR; SULFATE;

ARCHAEOGLOBUS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFERRIBACTERALES; DESULFACINUM; DESULFOTOMACULUM; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITRATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OIL INDUSTRY; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; THERMOCOCCALES; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER TREATMENT;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEOGLOBUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEFERRIBACTERALES; DESULFACINUM; DESULFOTOMACULUM; FIRMICUTES; PROKARYOTA; THERMOCOCCALES;

EID: 70449429202     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01123-09     Document Type: Article

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