Microbial characterization of mercury-reducing mixed cultures enriched with different carbon sources

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 293-300

  Carvalho, Gilda ^a,b   Almeida, Bárbara ^a,c   Fradinho, Joana ^b   Oehmen, Adrian ^b   Reis, Maria A M ^b   Teresa Barreto Crespo, M ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE); MerA gene; Mercury bioreduction; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; GLUCOSE; MERCURY; MERCURY (II) REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA; RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; VERBENACEAE;

ACETATES; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ETHANOL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GLUCOSE; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 83055165864     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11112     Document Type: Article

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