A role for dehalobacter spp. in the reductive dehalogenation of dichlorobenzenes and monochlorobenzene

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6806-6813

  Nelson, Jennifer L ^a   Fung, Jennifer M ^a,b   Cadillo Quiroz, Hinsby ^a,c   Cheng, Xu ^a,d   Zinder, Stephen H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Ocean Genome Legacy   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 16S RRNA SEQUENCES; CONTAMINATED SITES; DCB-ISOMERS; DEHALOCOCCOIDES SPP; DICHLOROBENZENES; END-PRODUCTS; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; MONO-CHLOROBENZENE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENATION; SEDIMENT MICROCOSMS; TRACE AMOUNTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BENZENE; CLONING; GENES; ISOMERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEHALOGENATION;

1,2 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,3 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROBENZENE; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BENZENE; CLONE; MICROCOSM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DEHALOBACTER; DEHALOGENATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALOBACTERIUM; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLOROBENZENES; HALOGENATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEPTOCOCCACEAE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOBACTER; DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 80051716658     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200480k     Document Type: Article

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