The contribution of microbial mats to the arsenic geochemistry of an ancient gold mine

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 162, Issue , 2012, Pages 190-201

  Drewniak, Lukasz ^a   Maryan, Natalia ^a   Lewandowski, Wiktor ^a   Kaczanowski, Szymon ^b   Sklodowska, Aleksandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arsenate reduction; Arsenic; Arsenite oxidation; Diversity; Gold mine; Microbial mats

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT GOLD; ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; ARSENITE OXIDASE; ARSENITE OXIDATION; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; DIVERSITY; INORGANIC ARSENIC; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL MATS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ARSENIC; GENES; GOLD; GOLD MINES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROORGANISMS;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS;

ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENITE OXIDASE; GOLD; GROUND WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARSENATE; ARSENIC; ARSENITE; ENZYME; GENE; GOLD MINE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; OXIDATION; PROKARYOTE; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD MINE; METAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL MAT; MINING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLAND; PROKARYOTE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARCHAEA; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GOLD; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY;

POLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 83055187875     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.11.023     Document Type: Article

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