Enrichment of arsenic transforming and resistant heterotrophic bacteria from sediments of two salt lakes in Northern Chile

Extremophiles

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 523-538

  Lara, J ^a   González, Lorena Escudero ^b,c   Ferrero, Marcela ^a   Díaz, Guillermo Chong ^b   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^d   Demergasso, Cecilia ^b,c  

^a PLANTA PILOTO DE PROCESOS INDUSTRIALES MICROBIOLÓGICOS PROIMI CONICET   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^c Centro de Investigacion Cientifico y Tecnologico de la Mineria Chile   (Chile)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arsenic microbial metabolisms; Arsenic resistant microorganisms; Northern Chile

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHILE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARSENIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHILE; LAKES; PROTEOBACTERIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84860834179     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-012-0452-1     Document Type: Article

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