Bacterial Communities Associated with Production Facilities of Two Newly Drilled Thermogenic Natural Gas Wells in the Barnett Shale (Texas, USA)

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 942-954

  Davis, James P ^a   Struchtemeyer, Christopher G ^a   Elshahed, Mostafa S ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NATURAL GAS; RNA 16S; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GAS, NATURAL; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEXAS; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIALES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; HALANAEROBIALES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84867674943     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0073-3     Document Type: Article

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