Presence of psychrotolerant phenanthrene-mineralizing bacterial populations in contaminated soils from the Greenland High Arctic

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-154

  Sorensen, Sebastian R ^a   Johnsen, Anders R ^a   Jensen, Anders ^a   Jacobsen, Carsten S ^a,b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Natural attenuation; Polyaromatic hydrocarbons; Psychrotolerant

Indexed keywords

BIPHENYL; CARBON 14; CARBON DIOXIDE; NAPHTHALENE; PHENANTHRENE; RNA 16S; ALKANE; BACTERIAL DNA; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; CARBON; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA; SOIL POLLUTANT; UNDECANE;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GREENLAND; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC; BACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SOIL POLLUTANT; STAINING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALKANES; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GREENLAND; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHALENES; PHENANTHRENES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 77949578942     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01920.x     Document Type: Article

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