Bacterial communities associated with a mineral weathering profile at a sulphidic mine tailings dump in arid Western Australia

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 298-311

  Wakelin, Steven A ^a,b   Anand, Ravi R ^b   Reith, Frank ^b,c   Gregg, Adrienne L ^b   Noble, Ryan R P ^b   Goldfarb, Kate C ^d   Andersen, Gary L ^d   Desantis, Todd Z ^d   Piceno, Yvette M ^d   Brodie, Eoin L ^d  

^a AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mineral weathering; PCR DGGE; PhyloChip

Indexed keywords

IRON; SULFUR;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFIDE; TAILINGS; TAXONOMY; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT; WEATHERING;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; WEATHER;

BACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; IRON; MINING; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFUR; WEATHER; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84855265887     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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