Cobalt uptake and resistance to trace metals in comamonas testosteroni isolated from a heavy-metal contaminated site in the Zambian Copperbelt

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 656-668

  Staniland, Sarah ^a   Coppock, Michael ^b   Tuffin, Marla ^c   van Zyl, Lonnie ^c   Roychoudhury, Alakendra N ^d   Cowan, Donald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Comamonas testosteroni; Czc genes; Heavy metal contamination; Heavy metal resistance (RND) genes; Zambia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COBALT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POREWATER; RNA; TRACE METAL; WETLAND;

COPPERBELT; KITWE; ZAMBIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI;

EID: 77957964337     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490450903527994     Document Type: Article

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