Chloroform respiration to dichloromethane by a Dehalobacter population

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1053-1060

  Duhamel, Melanie ^a   Grostern, Ariel ^a,c   Dworatzek, Sandra ^b   Edwards, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SiREM   (Canada)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHALOBACTER;

1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE; 1,1,1-TRICHLOROETHANE; BACTERIAL RNA; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; RNA 16S; TRICHLOROETHANE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PEPTOCOCCACEAE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLOROFORM; METHYLENE CHLORIDE; PEPTOCOCCACEAE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TRICHLOROETHANES;

EID: 77954643531     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02150.x     Document Type: Article

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