Fish farming affects the abundance and diversity of the mercury resistance gene merA in marine sediments

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 205-211

  Pitkanen, Leena K ^a   Tamminen, Manu ^a   Hynninen, Anu ^a   Karkman, Antti ^a   Corander, Jukka ^b   Kotilainen, Aarno ^c   Virta, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Baltic sediment; MerA; Mercury; Resistance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MERCURY; MERCURY (II) REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 80052509671     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11119     Document Type: Article

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