Monitoring gene expression to evaluate oxygen infusion at a gasoline-contaminated site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 6829-6834

  Baldwin, Brett R ^a   Biernacki, Anita ^a   Blair, Joel ^b   Purchase, Michael P ^b   Baker, Jeffrey M ^c   Sublette, Kerry ^d   Davis, Greg ^a   Ogles, Dora ^a  

^a Microbial Insights Incorporated   (United States)

^b Arctos Environmental   (United States)

^c Tesoro Companies Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ATTENUATION RATE; CATABOLIC GENES; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; DIRECT MEASURES; FUEL OXYGENATES; GASOLINE-CONTAMINATED; GENE TRANSCRIPTIONS; GROUNDWATER ANALYSIS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OXYGEN INFUSIONS; OXYGENASES; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTASE; SITE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM OPERATION; TARGET GENE EXPRESSION;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; DEGRADATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GENES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MONITORING; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BENZENE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GASOLINE; GROUND WATER; OXYGEN; OXYGENASE; RNA 16S;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BTEX; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MTBE; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFUSION SYSTEM; POLLUTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER ANALYSIS;

BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GASOLINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; OXYGEN; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, MESSENGER; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

METHYLIBIUM PETROLEIPHILUM;

EID: 77956134853     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101356t     Document Type: Article

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