Unsuspected diversity of arsenite-oxidizing bacteria as revealed by widespread distribution of the aoxB Gene in prokaryotes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4685-4692

  Heinrich Salmeron, Audrey ^a   Cordi, Audrey ^b   Brochier Armanet, Céline ^c   Halter, David ^a   Pagnout, Christophe ^b   Abbaszadeh Fard, Elham ^b   Montaut, Didier ^d   Seby, Fabienne ^d   Bertin, Philippe N ^a   Bauda, Pascale ^b   Arsène Ploetze, Florence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Nancy University   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d Laboratoire Ultra Traces An4alyse Aquitaine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE TRANSFER;

ARSENIC LEVELS; ARSENITE OXIDASE; ARSENITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; GENES ENCODING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PUBLIC DATABASE;

GENES;

ARSENIC; ARSENITE; BACTERIUM; DATABASE; GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALSACE; FRANCE; HAUT RHIN; SAINTE MARIE AUX MINES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79960081664     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02884-10     Document Type: Article

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