Diversity of dissimilatory sulfite reductase genes (dsrAB) in a salt marsh impacted by long-term acid mine drainage

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4819-4828

  Moreau, John W ^a,d   Zierenberg, Robert A ^b   Banfield, Julian F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CONTAMINANT METALS; DESULFOVIBRIO; FLOW PATH; GENE SEQUENCING; MARSH SEDIMENTS; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; METAL SULFIDES; MULTIPLE METALS; NITRATE REDUCTION; PHYTOGENY; PORE WATERS; RE-OXIDATION; SALT MARSHES; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFITE REDUCTASE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIA; TIME-SCALES;

ACIDS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DRAINAGE; GENES; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; OXYGEN; RNA; SULFUR; WATER; WETLANDS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE; INORGANIC SALT; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; METABOLISM; MOBILITY; POREWATER; SALTMARSH; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; STAINING; GENETIC VARIATION;

ACIDS; BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HYDROGENSULFITE REDUCTASE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STAINING AND LABELING; SULFIDES; SULFUR ISOTOPES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFOCOCCUS; DESULFOSARCINA; DESULFOSPOROSINUS; DESULFOVIBRIO;

EID: 77954714479     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03006-09     Document Type: Article

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