Molecular- and cultivation-based analyses of microbial communities in oil field water and in microcosms amended with nitrate to control H2S production

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2027-2038

  Kumaraswamy, Raji ^a   Ebert, Sara ^a   Gray, Murray R ^a   Fedorak, Phillip M ^a   Foght, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaerobic microbes; DGGE; MPN; Nitrate reduction; Reservoir souring; Sulfidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC MICROBES; DGGE; MPN; NITRATE REDUCTION; RESERVOIR SOURING; SULFIDOGENESIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FISH; OIL FIELDS;

NITRATES;

CHLORIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITRATE; OIL; SULFATE; WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CULTIVATION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROKINESIS; FLUORESCENCE; GEL; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INHIBITION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITRATE; OIL FIELD; PESTICIDE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDETES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOMONAS; HETEROTROPHIC NITRATE REDUCING BACTERIA; INCUBATION TIME; MARINOBACTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; MICROFLORA; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; NITRATE REDUCING SULFIDE OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PSEUDOMONAS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PETROLEUM; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CANADA;

ARCOBACTER; BACTEROIDETES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOMONAS; MARINOBACTER; MARINOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 79952573649     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2974-8     Document Type: Article

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