Development of a multistrain bacterial bioreporter platform for the monitoring of hydrocarbon contaminants in marine environments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1049-1055

  Tecon, Robin ^a   Beggah, Siham ^a   Czechowska, Kamila ^a   Sentchilo, Vladimir ^a   Chronopoulou, Panagiota Myrsini ^b   Mcgenity, Terry J ^b   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC HABITATS; BENZENE , TOLUENE , ETHYLBENZENE , AND XYLENES; CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS; CONTAMINATED SEAWATER; DNA DAMAGES; DNA DAMAGING AGENTS; ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE; GLASS FLASKS; HYDROCARBON FRACTION; LABORATORY SCALE; LINEAR ALKANES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; NORTH SEA; OIL SPILLAGE; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; PHASE SAMPLES; POLYAROMATICS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BENZENE; BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; BOTTLES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRUDE OIL; DNA; ETHYLBENZENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS; NAPHTHALENE; OIL SPILLS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEAWATER; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

MARINE POLLUTION;

ALKANE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE; BIPHENYL; ETHYLBENZENE; HYDROCARBON; LUCIFERASE; LUXAB ENZYME; PETROLEUM; SEA WATER; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLENE;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMARKER; BTEX; CLEANUP; DNA; HYDROCARBON; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEAWATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OIL SPILL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA; HYDROCARBONS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PETROLEUM; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 75749094786     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902849w     Document Type: Article

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