A quantitative PCR assay for aerobic, vinyl chloride- and ethene-assimilating microorganisms in groundwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 9036-9041

  Jin, Yang Oh ^a   Mattes, Timothy E ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DECHLORINATION; ANAEROBIC TREATMENTS; CHLOROETHENES; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; CONTAMINATED SITES; DEGRADING BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GENE COPY NUMBER; HUMAN CARCINOGEN; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; PCR ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REAL-TIME PCR (QPCR); SITE CLOSURE; STANDARD CURVES; TARGET GENES; VINYL CHLORIDES;

BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECHLORINATION; ECOLOGY; ETHYLENE; GENE ENCODING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ABUNDANCE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOREMEDIATION; CARCINOGEN; DATABASE; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AEROBE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOREMEDIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHENEOTROPH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DATABASE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION KINETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHYLENES; FRESH WATER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 78650302862     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102232m     Document Type: Article

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