Contribution of coexisting sulfate and iron reducing bacteria to methylmercury production in freshwater river sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2684-2691

  Yu, Ri Qing ^a   Flanders, J R ^b   MacK, E Erin ^c   Turner, Ralph ^d   Mirza, M Bilal ^a   Barkay, Tamar ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d RTGeosciences Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AMORPHOUS IRON; DEMETHYLATION; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; FRESHWATER RIVERS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HOT SPOT; IRON REDUCING BACTERIA; LOW LEVEL; METHYL MERCURY; OXYHYDROXIDES; RIVER BANK; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA;

ALKYLATION; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; GENES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METAL RECOVERY; METHYLATION; RIVERS; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; METHYLMERCURY; MOLYBDIC ACID; RNA 16S;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COEXISTENCE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FRESHWATER; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RIVER BANK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; IRON REDUCING BACTERIA; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIVER; RNA SEQUENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPRING; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; SUMMER;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MERCURY; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES;

SOUTH RIVER [VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84857808872     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es2033718     Document Type: Article

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