Composition and diversity of microbial communities recovered from surrogate minerals incubated in an acidic uranium-contaminated aquifer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6037-6046

  Reardon, Catherine L ^a   Cummings, David E ^b,e   Petzke, Lynn M ^b   Kinsall, Barry L ^c,f   Watson, David B ^c   Peyton, Brent M ^d   Geesey, Gill G ^a,b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Washington State University   (United States)

^e POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GEO Consultants LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; CONTAMINATION; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTS; TOXIC MATERIALS; URANIUM;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; POLYMORPHISM; SURROGATE MINERALS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA 16S; FERRIC OXIDE; GROUND WATER; MINERAL; RIBOSOME RNA; URANIUM;

AQUIFER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URANIUM;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINERALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; URANIUM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 8144228112     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6037-6046.2004     Document Type: Article

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