Hydrocarbon utilization within a diesel-degrading bacterial consortium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-122

  Ciric, Lena ^a   Philp, James C ^b   Whiteley, Andrew S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Degradation; Diesel; Hydrocarbon; Isolate

Indexed keywords

DIESEL FUEL; HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBON SOURCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GASOLINE; HYDROCARBONS; METAGENOME; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 75149184119     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01871.x     Document Type: Article

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