Effect of sulfide, selenite and mercuric mercury on the growth and methylation capacity of the sulfate reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 449, Issue , 2013, Pages 373-384

  Truong, Hoang Yen T ^a   Chen, Yu Wei ^a   Belzile, Nelson ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detoxification mechanisms; Mercury; Selenium; SRB Desulfovibrio desulfuricans; Sulfide

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; CHEMICAL TRAPS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DETOXIFICATION MECHANISM; DIMETHYLSELENIDE; MERCURIC IONS; MERCURIC MERCURIES; METHYLATION CAPACITY; METHYLMERCURY; POISONING EFFECTS; RESIDUAL FRACTION; SOLID-PHASE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFIDE;

ALKYLATION; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; DETOXIFICATION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SELENIUM; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

COPPER SULFATE; DIMETHYL SELENIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; METHYLMERCURY; SELENITE; SELENIUM; SULFIDE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOAVAILABILITY; DETOXIFICATION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; SELENITE; SELENIUM; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DETOXIFICATION; FRACTIONATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; MERCURY; METHYLATION; SODIUM SELENITE; SULFIDES;

EID: 84874417618     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.054     Document Type: Article

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