Cultivation-independent analysis of archaeal and bacterial communities of the formation water in an Indian coal bed to enhance biotransformation of coal into methane

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1337-1350

  Singh, Durgesh Narain ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a   Sarbhai, Munish Prasad ^b   Tripathi, Anil Kumar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ONGC   (India)

Author keywords

Coal bed; Denitrifying bacteria; Methanogenesis; Methanogenic archaea; Microcosm

Indexed keywords

COALBEDS; DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEA; MICROCOSM;

BACTERIA; CLONING; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; DENITRIFICATION; GENES; METHANOGENS; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

METHANE;

COAL; FORMATION WATER; METHANE; NITRATE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; COAL SEAM; FORMATION WATER; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NITRITE; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AZONEXUS; AZOSPIRA; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON SOURCE; CLOSTRIDIA; COMAMONAS; DECHLOROMONAS; DEGRADATION; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DIAPHOROBACTER; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FIRMICUTES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOBACTER; INDIA; INOCULATION; MESORHIZOBIUM; METAGENOME; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOGEN; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOLINEA; METHANOTHERMOBACTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES; THAUERA; THIOBACILLUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COAL; COMAMONADACEAE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; GENES, RRNA; INDIA; METHANE; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCYCLACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

INDIA;

ARCHAEA; AZONEXUS; AZOSPIRA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECHLOROMONAS; DIAPHOROBACTER; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOTHERMOBACTER; PROTEOBACTERIA; THAUERA;

EID: 84856404445     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3778-1     Document Type: Article

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