The importance of soil characteristics to the structure of alkane-degrading bacterial communities on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2012-2021

  Powell, S M ^a,b   Bowman, J P ^b   Ferguson, S H ^a   Snape, I ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alkane mono oxygenase; Hydrocarbon; Microbial diversity; Sub Antarctic; TRFLP

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CARBON AND NITROGEN; CONTAMINATED SITES; DIOXYGENASES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HYDROCARBON DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NAPHTHALENE DIOXYGENASE; OXYGENASES; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; STUDY SITES; SUB-ANTARCTIC; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRFLP;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DEGRADATION; GENES; NAPHTHALENE; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; RNA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ALKANE; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROCARBON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN;

AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE ISLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77956749858     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.07.027     Document Type: Article

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