Maintenance of phenol hydroxylase genotypes at high diversity in bioreactors exposed to step increases in phenol loading

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 336-348

  Basile, Laura A ^a   Erijman, Leonardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

16S rRNA genes; activated sludge; community dynamics; denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; real time PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; PHENOL; PHENOL 2-MONOOXYGENASE; PHENOL HYDROXYLASE; RNA 16S; SEWAGE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; ECOTYPE; ELECTROKINESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; NICHE; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOL; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE; BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77954395530     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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