Heavy metal tolerance of Fe(III)-reducing microbial communities in contaminated creek bank soils

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3132-3136

  Burkhardt, Eva Maria ^a   Bischoff, Sebastian ^a   Akob, Denise M ^a   Büchel, Georg ^a   Küsel, Kirsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCULTURE; CREEK BANKS; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; FE REDUCTIONS; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACTER; HEAVY METAL TOLERANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SOIL ENRICHMENT;

CADMIUM; IRON COMPOUNDS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; FERRIC ION; HEAVY METAL;

BACTERIUM; CADMIUM; IRON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL POLLUTION; ZINC;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GENOTYPE; METALS, HEAVY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CLOSTRIDIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFOSPOROSINUS; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACTER; POSIBACTERIA; SEDIMENTIBACTER;

EID: 79955593586     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02085-10     Document Type: Article

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