Carbon, metals, and grain size correlate with bacterial community structure in sediments of a high arsenic aquifer

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Legg, Teresa M ^a   Zheng, Van ^b,c   Simone, Bailey ^d   Radloff, Kathleen A ^c   Mladenov, Natalie ^a   Gonzalez, Antonio ^d   Knights, Dan ^d   Siu, Ho Chit ^b,e   Rahman, M Moshiur ^b   Ahmed, K Matin ^f   McKnight, Diane M ^d   Nemergut, Diana R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

^e Bronx High School of Science   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Aquifer; Arsenic; Bacteria; Chloroflexi; Deltaproteobacteria; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866984005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00082     Document Type: Article

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