Multiple DNA extractions coupled with stable-isotope probing of anthracene-degrading bacteria in contaminated soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2984-2991

  Jones, Maiysha D ^a   Singleton, David R ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Aitken, Michael D ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DEGRADING BACTERIA; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA YIELDS; EXTRACTION PATTERNS; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SINGLE EXTRACTION; SOIL COMMUNITY; SOIL SAMPLE; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ANTHRACENE; BACTERIOLOGY; CENTRIFUGATION; CLONING; DEGRADATION; DNA; EXTRACTION; GENES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; ISOTOPES; METAL RECOVERY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTHRACENE; ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL POLLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANTHRACENES; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PIGMENTIPHAGA; SPHINGOMONADALES; VARIOVORAX;

EID: 79955579627     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01942-10     Document Type: Article

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