Abundance, Diversity and Activity of Sulfate-Reducing Prokaryotes in Heavy Metal-Contaminated Sediment from a Salt Marsh in the Medway Estuary (UK)

Marine Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 363-381

  Quillet, Laurent ^a   Besaury, Ludovic ^a   Popova, Milka ^a   Paissé, Sandrine ^a   Deloffre, Julien ^a   Ouddane, Baghdad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Active Sulfate reducing Prokaryotes; DNA Extraction Efficiency; dsrA Transcripts; Estuarine Sediment; Heavy Metal Contamination; Phylogenetic Analysis; SSCP

Indexed keywords

DNA EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; DSRA TRANSCRIPTS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; SSCP; SULFATE REDUCING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLONING; CONTAMINATION; COREMAKING; DYES; ESTUARIES; GENES; HEAVY METALS; MICROORGANISMS; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

METAL; SEA WATER; SULFATE;

ABUNDANCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

BACTERIA; BIOTA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SULFATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

ENGLAND; KENT; MEDWAY ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE; PROKARYOTA; SYNTROPHOBACTERACEAE;

EID: 84859434109     PISSN: 14362228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10126-011-9420-5     Document Type: Article

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