Significant association between sulfate-reducing bacteria and uranium-reducing microbial communities as revealed by a combined massively parallel sequencing-indicator species approach ∇

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 6778-6786

  Cardenas, Erick ^a   Wu, Wei Min ^b   Leigh, Beth Mary ^d   Carley, Jack ^c   Carroll, Sue ^c   Gentry, Terry ^e   Luo, Jian ^f   Watson, David ^c   Gu, Baohua ^c   Ginder Vogel, Matthew V ^g   Kitanidis, Peter K ^b   Jardine, Philip M ^c   Zhou, Jizhong ^h   Criddle, Craig S ^b   Marsh, Terence L ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION PLUME; DESULFOVIBRIO; DIRECT RESPONSE; ELECTRON DONORS; FLOW PATH; GEOBACTER; HIGH-THROUGHPUT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONNECTIVITY; HYDRAULIC FLOW; HYDROCHEMICALS; INDICATOR SPECIES; INJECTION WELLS; INNER LOOPS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; OUTER LOOP; PYROSEQUENCING; RIDGE FIELDS; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE INJECTION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; TENNESSEE; URANIUM CONCENTRATION;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BACTERIOLOGY; ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAVY METALS; HYDRAULICS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); IRON COMPOUNDS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFATE; URANIUM;

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; ELECTRON; ETHANOL; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW FIELD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLUME; REDUCTION; REMEDIATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL POLLUTANT; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SULFATES; TENNESSEE; URANIUM;

OAK RIDGE RESERVATION; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

ANAEROMYXOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOSPOROSINUS; DESULFOVIBRIO; GEOBACTER; RHODANOBACTER;

EID: 77958549080     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01097-10     Document Type: Article

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