Microbial community composition during anaerobic mineralization of tert -butyl alcohol (TBA) in fuel-contaminated aquifer material

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3012-3018

  Wei, Na ^a   Finneran, Kevin T ^b  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC MINERALIZATION; AQUIFER MATERIALS; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; FUEL OXYGENATES; METHYL TERT BUTYL ETHER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL TRANSFORMATION; RIBOSOMAL DNA; SEDIMENT INCUBATIONS; SHANNON INDEX; SIMPSON; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; TERT-BUTYL ALCOHOLS;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; ALCOHOLS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; CLONING; ETHERS; FUELS; IRON COMPOUNDS; KETONES; METADATA; MINERALOGY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ANTHRAQUINONE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL; IRON; NITRATE; RIBOSOME DNA; SULFATE; TERT BUTYL ALCOHOL; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

ABUNDANCE; ALCOHOL; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERSITY INDEX; FUEL; KETONE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; PHYLOGENETICS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFOMICROBIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOBACTER; HYDROGENOPHILACEAE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELOBACTER; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS; SHEWANELLA; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIODIVERSITY; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METHYL ETHERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TERT-BUTYL ALCOHOL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79953235009     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103362k     Document Type: Article

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