Structure of microbial communities and hydrocarbon-dependent sulfate reduction in the anoxic layer of a polluted microbial mat

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 539-546

  Abed, Raeid M M ^a   Musat, Niculina ^b   Musat, Florin ^b   Mußmann, Marc ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anoxic sediment; Clone libraries; Hydrocarbons; Microbial mats; Slot blot hybridization; Sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB)

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANOXIC LAYERS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CLONE LIBRARIES; DIVERSE COMMUNITY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; HEXADECANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL MATS; PLANCTOMYCETES; SLOT-BLOT HYBRIDIZATION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA (SRB); SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; CRUDE OIL; LIBRARIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOLUENE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

HEXADECANE; HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM; RNA 16S; TOLUENE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANOXIC SEDIMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUDE OIL; HYBRIDIZATION; HYDROCARBON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEA POLLUTION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTER; DESULFOBACTERIUM; DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFOCAPSA; DESULFOCOCCUS; DESULFOMICROBIUM; DESULFOTIGNUM; PLANCTOMYCETES;

EID: 79952185579     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.11.030     Document Type: Article

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